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  For those of you, including us, hoping that Ghanaian actor, John Dumelo and Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson are gonna get married some day and live happily ever after, sorry, that day MAY never come. And that's because Yvonne just described John as her "crush". She made the statement during a chat with Peace Hyde of GHOne TV when she dropped a bomb saying "a lot of men suck!" That means she's still single and not yet ready to mingle! She insists that what exists between her and John is simply fantasy and that they didn't date. “He (John Dumelo) was my first crush when I first joined the industry, but we are now friends, not just friends but best of friends now, and he has a girlfriend somewhere,” Yvonne revealed in response to a question on whether she had ever had a crush on an industry person.

The album was released on July 21. The latest and 6th album of Nigerian pop star, Tuface Idibia, The Ascension, was on Thursday listed on the BillBoard charts. The album which was released by the 960 Music Group on July 21, was debuted at no. 12 under the World Albums category. According to BillBoard, Chart positions are usually determined based on key fan interactions with music, including album sales and downloads, track downloads, radio airplay and touring, as well as streaming and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, Vevo, YouTube, Spotify and other popular online destinations for music.

A few days after she won Gold in the Women's 100meters Finals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she's won Gold again in the Women's 200m in a time of 22.25 seconds, completing the Glasgow2014 sprint double. You go, Blessing!

The family of former Minister of Information and Communications, late Prof. (Mrs.) Dora Nkem Akunyili, has released a week-long programme of activities for her funeral, culminating in her burial on Thursday, August 28, 2014. The programme, released today in Enugu by Prof. Akunyili’s husband, Dr. Chike Akunyili, starts with a Christian Wake-Keep at No. 2A Bishop Onyeabor St., G.R.A. Enugu, to hold from 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 22. A Night of Tributes is to hold at International Conference Centre Abuja from 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 25, while a Mass would be held for her at Pro-Cathedral Catholic Church, Abuja, by 10:00 a.m. the next day, August 26.

Over a year after walking away from his label, YSG Entertainment, rapper Vector has written an open apology letter to them. Find it below...

Russell Brand and Katy Perry - Source: BANG Showbiz Katy Perry says her divorce from Russell Brand was "emotionally traumatic" but now seems like it was "a thousand lifetimes ago". The 'Roar' hitmaker was left heartbroken when her marriage to Russell Brand ended in 2011 after just 14 months and she says the split was the "death of a dream". She told Rolling Stone magazine: "It was emotionally traumatic for me. It was the death of a dream. I was in fairytale land, and the reality of it wasn't so." However, the 29-year-old beauty - who has subsequently dated John Mayer and recently been romantically linked with producer Diplo - doesn't want to seem "desperate" by continually talking about her failed marriage.

First off, the average Nigerian music-lover is tired. Yes, tired! "Tired of what?" You may ask. The Nigerian music-lover is tired of the 'rubbish' being released these days in the name of music videos. Once a video is about to be released, you can guess its contents. If there is no scene where scantily clad girls are gyrating, you can be sure to see one where some heavy partying is going down. If there is no party scene, you can expect the artiste in a scene singing while a lovely, scantily-clad lady caresses every part of his body. Does this mean there are no more creative video directors in Nigeria? Of course, not! But sometimes, the pressure to deliver the market standard (in our case, girls shaking their bum bum) is so much that instead of releasing a world-class video, artistes now go for videos loved by marketers.