Rihanna gets £500,000 for 5 minute gig

RiRi in Navy

Rihanna arrived at Westfield's Stratford to a warm welcome from her fans. She had been invited to turn to the Christmas lights at the shopping complex.

Church of England refuses ordination of women bishops

UNITED KINGDOM - Members of the Anglican church senate have blocked the ordination of women bishops. Bishops and clergy voted in favor of the change by large majorities but

Pakistan court acquits Christian girl of blasphemy charges

Released. Photo: AP

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court on Tuesday acquitted a Christian girl accused of blasphemy over the burning of the Muslim holy book, her lawyer said.

Health News: How Vitamin D can protect you against cancer, High Blood Pressure, painful bones and many more

I have just found out the importance of this little known vitamin and wish to share it with you. If you are dark skinned you need to read this and I hope you find it beneficial. 

Ibrahimovic Amazing Bicycle Goal - Watch the best goals ever right here!

ENGLAND V SWEDEN - The fourth goal when it came was mesmerizing. It has turned out to be a  goal that will linger long in the memory of football fans all around the world. It is being lauded as one of the greatest in the history of the game.

Ibrahimovic was out on the right, his eyes fixed like a hawk on Joe Hart’s poor clearance dropping towards him. The goalkeeper was out of his area, his goal unprotected, but the

Angry Protests in Six European Countries!

EURO NEWS - Thousands of angry protesters took to the streets today in Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain to demand that their governments abandon the austerity measures implemented in these countries to help cut deficits. So, far 80 people have been arrested across the region and scores of policemen have been injured.

The protesters ground flights, closed schools and shut down transport. Millions of workers are took part in the dozens of co-ordinated protests in a so-called European Day of Action and Solidarity against spending cuts and tax hikes.

Breaking News: Head of Hamas Killed

Ahmed al-Ja'abari, head of Hamas' military wing, was killed Wednesday in Gaza by an Israeli "surgical" strike, the Israeli military announced.

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How leaders are chosen in CHINA

China, the world's most populous country will elect a new leader on Thursday. President Hu has stepped down as the general secretary of the Communist Party and 59 year old Xi Jinping is set to become the new leader.

'JAFFE' - enjoy a night of Live Music, Comedy & Dance

B2W, SIMPLI ART & MUSICNEST in conjunction with THE REDEEMED ASSEMBLIES CHOIR present a showcase like never before... A showcase that will blow your mind! "JAFFE"

THIS IS A FREE EVENT FOR EVERYONE. You don't want to miss out BE THERE!!!!

In case your asking yourself, whats the meaning of JAFFE? It means 'Beauty, Creativity'

That's why everyone is welcome to experience a night of live Music, comedy, dance and whole lots more. Its a night where different  individuals can showcase their talents and skills. Also it is a night where individuals would be able to showcase their products such as art work, jewelries and a whole lot more.

If you looking to showcase or perform on that night either gospel or mainstream…please contact  - 07447999953, 07931277879, 07805171651

For more information CLICK HERE NOW

THIS IS GOING TO BE AN AMAZING NIGHT AND YOU DON’T WANT TO IT!!!

‎DATE: 30 November

TIME:  19:00  

VENUE: 821 OLD KENT ROAD SE15 1NX

ITS A FREE EVENT FOR EVERYONE

You don't want to miss out, SO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

Check out Africa's Prettiest - Miss Integration Pageant is here again!

Oredola Adeola Crown, the CEO of E-Zone Africa talks about his upcoming event,  the Miss Integration Beauty Pageant coming up on Thursday 22 November, 2012 please read on...and see all the contestants below!

What is Miss Integration about?

Miss Integration is an event put together by Mr Bonny Botoku, the Executive director of Multiple Vision Services Ltd, MD Francophone and Z-Mirage Multimedia. He is also the interpreter between Republic of Benin and Nigeria on peace and security within the borderline communities.

What is the purpose of the event?

The idea came up some years ago when there were disputes between the Nigeria and Benin at the border. In one of the peace meetings held, the idea of a unique brand that would further deepen peaceful co-existence came-up – the idea of a beauty pageant called the ‘Miss Integration’, the first edition tagged: ''War Against Child Trafficking'' came up in 2010, Idiroko, Ogun state, Nigeria.  The second edition, tagged: ‘Kick Against Malaria' took place, in Cotonou in 2011. This year’s event would once again take place in the capital of the Republic of Benin, Cotonou and tagged: 'Fight against Discrimination on Women and Children'.

The Queen when she emerges has the specific duty of initiating programmes aimed at promoting peace and integration amongst various borderline communities in Africa, using useful tools of Cultural and tradition to achieve result.

Who are the past winners what are they doing now?

2010 -  Idiroko, Ogun state, Nigeria, Miss Tobi (Nigeria)

2011 -  Cotonou, Republic of Benin, Miss Maya Nwokeji (Nigeria)

2012 -  still in process

Who are the people and organisation behind the show?

Bonny Botoku: Convener of Miss Integration.

Z-Mirage Multimedia

Multiple Vision services.

Goge African.

E-Zone Africa.

Laface entertainment.

Sica Festival

How are you involved?

E-Zone is the official print media handling all the print publicity especially on National Newspapers including PM News, The Nation, The Guardian... This year we shall be there for both print and visual as we have had a request from The Nation online and a satellite TV for our content.

As a pan African reporter what do you do?

My sojourn in the media, has given me the opportunity to cover events both within Nigeria and Outside Nigeria, as a freelance journalist, I promote and cover the following events:

*SICA Fashion Show  -  Republic of  Benin

*Miss Integration   - Republic of Benin

*Igbale Aye  -  Republic of Benin

*Yoruba Movie Academy Award  -  Nigeria

*Miss Olokun Beauty Pageant  -  Nigeria

*Ankara Music Festival  - Victoria Island, Nigeria amongst other entertainment and social news.

Where is the contest taking place?

This year's edition will be holding on 22 November 2012 in Cotonou Republic of Benin. It is supported by E-Zone Africa, LaFace Entertainment, Goge Africa, Zeebah Concept and iShine Magazine.

TO VOTE FOR YOUR CONTESTANT PLEASE CLICK  VOTE HERE NOW

For more details please contact the organisers at  - MISS INTEGRATION WEBSITE

Email - missintegration@rocketmail.com

TO ATTEND VISIT -  MISS INTEGRATION EVENT PAGE

Here's a selection of the beauties...

 

Make your own App - using iPhone or Android

Do you want to create an app for a special occasion? Yes, it's true that there are over 70,000 apps on the market for smart phone users but sometimes you may want a personalized app. Here's how to get your own personal app:


The brand new service is called Yapp. Go to the Yapp website and sign up for the service, then downloaded the app for your android or iPhone. Follow the steps and you will be able to make a personalized application for your business or event. Easy!

Yapp is really easy to use and requires little-to-no technology know-how.You can easily update information and use customization features to add new features to your app. According to Maria Seidman, the CEO and co-founder of Yapp in a recent ABC News interview, Yapp is the easiest way to create and publish a mobile application in minutes.

Making updates to your app is easy too. If you have to change the time of something on a schedule you can easily make an edit and update it with new images, say with images of the wedding after it has passed. You can send push notifications to your users to inform them of the change or addition.

Visit Yapp.us, sign in with Facebook or make your own account, and you are ready to start designing your app. You can pick from a set of pre-set templates with different backgrounds and colors and start customizing for your event. You can easily put in a schedule, a feed of photos, and even bring in Tweets from a specific Twitter feed. When you are done you can invite your friends to the app. 

How to use the app?
The app isn't published to Apple's App Store or Google's Play store. You invite people to use the app via email and they will then they will be prompted to download Yapp on their phones. The app you have created will appear in their Yapp Box – or a container folder in the Yapp app on their phone. Unfortunately, you cannot add a Yapp app directly to the home screen of a phone right now.

Who is it good for?

Weddings, conferences, schools, sports teams and other events too.

Yapp is free to download and use, though you can pay a fee for a concierge service, where Yapp experts will help customize the app for you. You can download the free app from the Apple App Store and Google Play today.

Barak Obama - The Challenges Ahead

Second term in office: President Obama

After a long and gruelling campaign,  President Barak Obama has won the US elections by a whisker. This comes as good news to Democrats and not so good news for Mitt Romney. Across America, statistics show that more Latinos voted for Obama than ever. This comes as good news to the Obama camp but projects a split view of America - whites on one side and African Americans, Latinos and other ethnic minorities on the other...a divided country. Mor women and youths also voted for Democrats.


Challenges Ahead

The most important task for President Barak Obama will be to bring all groups together and  most especially the Republicans (who have clout in American power circles) in order to make the story of America a success. Politics in America should not be a white and black affair.

Many people around the world including in African believed that Obama won by chance but with his re-election shows that the president has substance and is an obvious choice but he now needs to work out a strategy to pull everyone together.

President Obama will need to focus on:

• A workable plan
• Pushing forward policies that will pass the Republican camp
• Uniting the senate
• Taxes
• Unemployment
• Health insurance reforms
• Technology
• Immigration
• Housing
• Ethical food production
• Peace in the world

Finally, president Obama needs to eat some good food and take a long relaxing sleep! He looks like he needs it.
 
Congratulations President Obama and Vice-president Biden, from iSHINE Magazine 

OBAMA RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT

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Obama won re-election in a tight campaign, besting Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in enough swing states to secure four more years in office.

Propelled by wins in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa – states long touted as Obama’s “firewall” – the president won a long-fought election in which the economy, its slow pace of recovery and Obama’s management of it, became the central issue.

NBC News declared Obama the projected winner of Ohio and the election after polls had closed on the West Coast. The president also held onto a series of Democratic strongholds, beating back Romney’s efforts to take back states Obama had won in 2008 and make inroads into traditionally Democratic strongholds, like Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Exit polls suggested that the economy was, by far and away, the issue at the front of voters’ minds on Election Day. Romney edged Obama nationally by six points among voters who said the economy was their top issue.

But Obama outperformed Romney on questions of empathy, and voters nationwide were virtually tied on the more direct question of who would better handle the economy and the budget deficit.

Obama also held a demographic edge over Romney among two key groups of voters. The president bested the former Massachusetts governor by 10 points among women (Romney beat Obama by 8 percent among men). Hispanic or Latino voters also broke heavily for Obama by a 39-point margin.

In losing, Romney fails at his task of becoming the first challenger to unseat a sitting president since 1992.

The president will enter his second term facing a political landscape much like his last two – that is, gridlock. NBC News projected that Republicans would retain their majority in the House, and that Democrats would retain their majority in the Senate (because Vice President Joe Biden would be able, in his official capacity as president of the Senate, to break a 50-50 tie).

The specter of gridlock would undoubtedly loom before Obama as he confronts an immediate task in addressing the series of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts – the so-called “fiscal cliff” – set to spring into place at the end of this year. As Obama won a second term, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans’ retention of their House majority meant “the American people have also made clear that there is NO mandate for raising tax rates.”

As election results continued to trickle in, Nevada, Florida, Colorado and Virginia remained too close to call. North Carolina, where Romney was declared the apparent victor, was the lone state that flipped from Obama in 2008 to Republicans this election cycle.

Obama awaited results earlier in the evening at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, where he had dinner with the first family. Romney joined his family at a hotel suite near his election night party in Boston. The president spent the day doing a series of interviews and participating in a pick-up game of basketball, an Election Day tradition for Obama.

Romney, meanwhile, added some last-minute campaigning to his schedule instead of enjoying down time. He stopped in Cleveland and Pittsburgh in a last-minute bid for votes in the crucial battleground state of Ohio.

Speaking to reporters traveling with him from Pittsburgh to Boston, Romney said he sensed that victory was on the horizon.

“You know, intellectually, I've felt we're going to win this and have felt that for some time,” Romney told reporters traveling with him from his last campaign stop from Pittsburgh back to Massachusetts. “But emotionally, just getting off the plane and seeing those people standing there … just seeing people there cheering as they were connected emotionally with me and I not only think we’re going to win intellectually, I feel it as well.” 

Did Romney say that too soon?

News: NBC

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BONFIRE NIGHT IN LONDON

Remember, remember the 5th of November... and so I will. On the 5th of November me and my children went to view the fireworks in Crystal Palace Park.

The night started off with spectators filing in through the gate. People of all ages, standing, talking, playing laughing and rejoicing. The sound was harmonious. It made me feel at home. It made me warm and tingly, like Christmas had already arrived. Even though it was 5 degrees outside, I felt as if I was in the hot summer sun. Eating candy, popcorn, burgers, hotdogs, any food I saw, I bought. As you know, bonfire night only comes once a year. But what were all these people actually doing here? What was I doing here? What is the true definition of bonfire night and why are we all so eager to go and celebrate it?

Well, bonfire night traditionally started on 5th of November 1605 in England when the infamous Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot was arrested while guarding explosives that had been hidden beneath the House of Lords. The Gunpowder plot was a group of English Catholic priests who planned the failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland.  To cut the long story short, they were all arrested and put to death. To celebrate the fact that King James I survived the assassination attempted, people lit bonfires to remember the day and months later, 5th November became an annual public day of thanksgiving for the plot's failure.

Today, on Guy Fawkes Night, a stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes made by children is dragged around the streets with a rope tied round its neck and beaten up by other children. Later in the night, huge bonfires are lit in public parks with fireworks displays and funfairs for children, music and merrymaking goes on into the night.

Pictures coming here when I get back form BONFIRE NIGHT...