karen Igho winner of BBA 6

Goodbye July

July...
31st July, d end of another mouth
But I thank God because he is God
Had a smooth month n enjoy every bit
God u are faithful...

KAREN IGHO winner of BBA6

Karen Igho won Big Brother Africa 6
Karen got Naija, Ghana, Angola, Mos, Tanzania and Roa, while Wendel got Zim,Kenya, Zambia & Namibia and Luclay got SA and Botswana. Others 1
Karen Karen Karen... 1 luv

Am A succeSS

wow
The last time i checked, God did not fail...

When am down and tired of life struggles
I just remember that he cannot fail
When am about to give up in my dreams
A silent voice keeps telling me,its not over until i win

when my bones are week and my legs cant stand anymore
I just smile cause i know my purpose wont be cut short
when i cant control that tears anymore
I remember, tears of joy is not far from me.

when the road is dark and still
I know help is on the way soon.
when am about to give up on everything
I just know my time is now and am a success...

By Offoboche Patience O.

wow

The last time i checked, God did not fail...

when and down and tired of life struggles
i just remember that he cannot fail
when am about to give up in my dreams
a silent voice keeps telling me,its not over until i win

when my bones are week and my legs cant stand anymore
i just smile cause i know my purpose wont be cut short
when i cant control that tears anymore
i remember, tears of joy is not far from me.

when the road is dark and still
i know help is on the way soon.
when am about to give up on everything
i just know my time is now and am a success...

AMY WINEHOUSE DEAd...

Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.

Winehouse shot to fame with the album "Back to Black,'' whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos one of music's most recognizable stars.

Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.

An ambulance could be seen parked beneath the trees outside her London home, and the whole street was cordoned off by police tape. Officers kept onlookers away from the scene.

Last month, Winehouse cancelled her European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely recognizable songs in her first show in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Booed and jeered off stage, she flew home and her management said she would take time off to recover.

"I didn't go out looking to be famous,'' Winehouse told the Associated Press when "Back to Black'' was released. "I'm just a musician.''

But in the end, the music was overshadowed by fame, and by Winehouse's demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the Internet.

Born in 1983 to taxi driver Mitch Winehouse and his pharmacist wife Janis, Winehouse grew up in the north London suburbs, and was set on a showbiz career from an early age. When she was 10, she and a friend formed a rap group, Sweet 'n' Sour Winehouse was Sour that she later described as "the little white Jewish Salt 'n' Pepa.''

She attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, a factory for British music and acting moppets, later went to the Brit School, a performing arts academy in the "Fame'' mould, and was originally signed to ``Pop Idol'' svengali Simon Fuller's 19 Management.

But Winehouse was never a packaged teen star, and always resisted being pigeonholed.

Her jazz-influenced 2003 debut album, "Frank,'' was critically praised and sold well in Britain. It earned Winehouse an Ivor Novello songwriting award, two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.

But Winehouse soon expressed dissatisfaction with the disc, saying she was ``only 80 per cent behind'' the album.

"Frank'' was followed by a slump during which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered a long period of writer's block and, she later said, smoked a lot of marijuana.

"I had writer's block for so long,'' she said in 2007. "And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote. .. I used to think, 'What happened to me?'

"At one point it had been two years since the last record and (the record company) actually said to me, 'Do you even want to make another record?' I was like, 'I swear it's coming.' I said to them, 'Once I start writing I will write and write and write. But I just have to start it.'''

The album she eventually produced was a sensation.

Released in Britain in the fall of 2006, "Back to Black'' brought Winehouse global fame. Working with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi and soul-funk group the Dap-Kings, Winehouse fused soul, jazz, doo-wop and, above all, a love of the girl-groups of the early 1960s with lyrical tales of romantic obsession and emotional excess.

"Back to Black'' was released in the United States in March 2007 and went on to win five Grammy awards, including song and record of the year for "Rehab.''

Music critic John Aizlewood attributed her trans-Atlantic success to a fantastic voice and a genuinely original sound.

"A lot of British bands fail in America because they give America something Americans do better that's why most British hip-hop has failed,'' he said. ``But they won't have come across anything quite like Amy Winehouse.''

Winehouse's rise was helped by her distinctive look black beehive of hair, thickly lined cat eyes, girly tattoos and her tart tongue.

She was famously blunt in her assessment of her peers, once describing Dido's sound as "background music the background to death'' and saying of pop princess Kylie Minogue, "she's not an artist ... she's a pony.''

The songs on "Black to Black'' detailed breakups and breakdowns with a similar frankness. Lyrically, as in life, Winehouse wore her heart on her sleeve.

"I listen to a lot of '60s music, but society is different now,'' Winehouse said in 2007. "I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.''

Even then, Winehouse's performances were sometimes shambolic, and she admitted she is "a terrible drunk.''

Increasingly, her personal life began to overshadow her career.

She acknowledged struggling with eating disorders and told a newspaper that she had been diagnosed as manic depressive but refused to take medication. Soon accounts of her erratic behaviour, cancelled concerts and drink- and drug-fueled nights began to multiply.

Photographs caught her unsteady on her feet or vacant-eyed, and she appeared unhealthily thin, with scabs on her face and marks on her arms.

There were embarrassing videos released to the world on the Internet. One showed an addled Winehouse and Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty playing with newborn mice. Another, for which Winehouse apologized, showed her singing a racist ditty to the tune of a children's song.

Winehouse's managers went to increasingly desperate lengths to keep the wayward star on the straight and narrow.

Though she was often reported to be working on new material, fans got tired of waiting for the much-promised followup to "Back to Black.''

Occasional bits of recording saw the light of day. Her rendition of The Zutons' "Valerie'' was a highlight of producer Mark Ronson's 2007 album "Version,'' and she recorded the pop classic "It's My Party'' for the 2010 Quincy Jones album ``Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.''

But other recording projects with Ronson, one of the architects of the success of "Back to Black,'' came to nothing.

She also had run-ins with the law. In April 2008, Winehouse was cautioned by police for assault after she slapped a man during a raucous night out.

The same year she was investigated by police, although not charged, after a tabloid newspaper published a video that appeared to show her smoking crack cocaine.

In 2010, Winehouse pleaded guilty to assaulting a theatre manager who asked her to leave a family Christmas show because she'd had too much to drink. She was given a fine and a warning to stay out of trouble by a judge who praised her for trying to clean up her act.

In May 2007 in Miami, she married music industry hanger-on Blake Fielder-Civil, but the honeymoon was brief. That November, Fielder-Civil was arrested for an attack on a pub manager the year before. Fielder-Civil later pleaded guilty to assaulting barman James King and then offering him 200,000 pounds (US$400,000) to keep quiet about it.

Winehouse stood by "my Blake'' throughout his trial, often blowing kisses at him from the court's public gallery and wearing a heart-shaped pin labeled "Blake'' in her hair at concerts. But British newspapers reported extramarital affairs while Fielder-Civil was behind bars.

Happy BirthDaY2

It's another great day to celebrate with my friends as they add another year

Fortune Asuoque and Ulzen Kate Alaere

Many more blessings and Gods love.
Love you...

NYSC Alawee increased...

Youth corps members are now to receive N19, 800.00 as allowance with effect from March 2011, the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Maharazu Tsiga, has announced.

Mr. Tsiga made this known in Abuja on Monday during a visit by a team from Barry University, Miami, Florida and Africans in Diaspora Partnership.

The NYSC members were receiving N9, 775.00 before now, and President Goodluck Jonathan had in his 2010 campaign tour, promised the increase.

According to Mr. Tsiga, the allowance of the NYSC members will be paid in arrears, to include the 2010 Batch ‘B' members, who finished their service year on July 7.

Mr. Tsiga expressed his happiness with President Goodluck Jonathan, for considering the plight of the corps members, stating that the scheme would work hard to realise its objective.

He also expressed satisfaction with the visit of the team, stating that it was timely, as seven youth corps members were successful in the Entrepreneurs competition organised by the Africans in Diaspora Partnership.

"I can assure you that the resources expended in the training and empowerment of the seven entrepreneurs has not been wasted since all of them are doing very well.

"Indeed, we see in them great potentials for wealth and job creation in the near future, that is why we are looking forward to greater and expanded opportunities for more corps members as talents abound in the scheme,'' Mr. Tsiga said.

He said that the contribution of NYSC members underscored national relevance of the scheme, adding that the scheme would ensure that the gains were not lost to the threat of post-service unemployment.

According to him, the agencies which partnered with the scheme on skills acquisition are the Central Bank of Nigeria, National Directorate of Employment and the MDGs Office.

Earlier, Adewale Alonge, leader of the delegation, had praised the scheme for its foresight and readiness to ensure that NYSC members were well equipped to stand on their feet, without looking for government employment after the scheme.