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Beyonce leads the 2017 Grammy nominees with 9 nominations while Rihanna follows with 8, among other A-listers. Those who are lucky to have their names on the list of nominees have taking to social media to express their excitement. Let’s take a look at what they shared. Kelly Clarkson wrote on Twitter: “SO EXCITING!! Can’t…
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WILLIE NELSON Nominated for: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for “Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin” METALLICA Nominated for: Best Rock Song for “Hardwired” KEITH URBAN Nominated for: Best Country Album for “Ripcord” Best Country Song for “Blue Ain’t Your Color” KELSEA BALLERINI Nominated for: Best New Artist RADIOHEAD Nominated for: Best Alternative Music Album for “A…
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DECEMBER 4, 1949: Actor, singer and producer Jeff Bridges is born in Los Angeles, California. Dec. 4, 1956: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash record an impromptu jam session. The session was popularly known as the “Million Dollar Quartet.” Dec. 4, 1973: TV personality, producer, actress and former model Tyra Banks is born in Inglewood, California. Dec.…
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Drake Nominated for: Album of the Year for “Views” Best Rap Album for “Views” Best Rap/ Sung Performance for “Hotline Bling” Best Rap Performance for “Pop Style” feat. The Throne Best Rap Song for “Hotline Bling” Sturgill Simpson Nominated for: Album of the Year for “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” Best Country Album for “A Sailor’s…
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Paris is said to be facing its worst air pollution in ten years, and the government has taken daring steps to save lives. All public transaportation systems will now operate without charges. However, some of the temporary measures taken to realize the national objective will make you wonder who the laws serve. Media reports confirm…
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A heartless young man who crashed into an 11-year-old girl, kidnapped and raped the victim before leaving her for dead in a ditch, has been arrested by police. He attacked the girl on her way to school. The suspect, a 20-year-old boy named Larry Ward, has been charged with aggravated assault, child rape and kidnapping. According…
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How do you know if that entertainment venue is safe, and that your life won’t be in great danger before you attend? The recent death of 36 concertgoers in an Oakland warehouse which occurred last Friday is a good reason for you to seek answers before it’s too late. Although a faulty refrigerator was believed to have…
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The chairman of Pakistan International Airlines has issued an official statement on the plane crash which killed a total of 48 people, including 42 passengers, five crew members and one ground engineer. He said the pilot lost control of his engines and made a Mayday Call before crashing. Reports confirm the ill-fated plane crashed into a mountain…
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Being a beauty model takes just a pretty face, slender body shape and long legs, but courage comes first among other requirements for Victoria’s Secret supermodels. Gigi Hadid has it all. The 21-year-old went half nude on stage while catwalking for this year’s fashion show. Image: Gigi Hadid Gigi described her second Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show as…
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Brazilian club Chapecoense have been awarded the Copa Sudamericana by South American football confederation Conmebol after the club lost its players and staff in a plane crash shortly before the finals. A total of 71 people, including 19 players and staff, died last Monday en route Columbia for the first leg match. According to a…
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Rigobert Song, the former Cameroon international footballer who suffered stroke nine weeks ago, is not dead. He was seen in a recently published picture looking frail, and fans are excited to see the first pictures of him since October. The former Liverpool star stayed in coma for two days before he was flown to France…
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Bianca Ojukwu told a shocking story of how a 19-year-old American boy set himself on fire for the sake of Biafrans during the Nigerian civil war. He did it to draw attention from international bodies to the endangered seceeding ethnic group. This undated picture shows Chief Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu and family. Bianca Ojukwu, a widow…
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Pastor W. F. Kumuyi [full names William Folorunso Kumuyi] was born on June 6, 1941 into a Christian family in Erin-Ijesha, Osun State, Nigeria. He was born into an Anglican family that knew the Bible was very important as the word of God; they would rise up early in the morning to sing hymns, read the…
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The U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has been advised by noble laureates to give science its due respect. He received an open letter from the scientific community made up of over 2,300 scientists – including 22 Noble Prize winners. Image shows U.S. President-elect Donald Trump (Noble Peace Prize winner 2016). Trump was advised to “ensure that…
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A participant in costume holding an apple poses for a picture after a Halloween parade in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan, October 30, 2016. More than 130,000 spectators turned up to watch the parade, where about 2,600 participants dressed up in costumes, according to the organizer. Two members of the Stutsman County SWAT team talk…
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Nwankwo Kanu, the most decorated Super Eagles player, has laid his late mother Mrs Susan Kanu Iheme to eternal rest. The woman died on 7 September. Her funeral was held at Kanu’s hometown, Amannagwu village in Arochukwu LGA, Abia State. Late Mrs Susan died at the age of 82. Reports from Nigeria confirm that “Papillo” [as he’s…
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An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Friday ordered the release of the leader of the Shi’a Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. The leader of the Shi’a Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who was arrested by the military on December 14, 2015, after a clash between the movement and officers of…
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A dead man who was locked up in his Isuzu Axiom car for four days, received a total of five parking tickets from cops who didn’t know there was someone without breathe inside the vehicle. The event occurred in Fort Lauderdale late last month. Jacob Morpeau‘s corpse was found on the day his car received its…
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Smoke rise from the ship a day after an explosion at ship breaking yard in Gaddani, Pakistan, November 2, 2016. Reports state that at least eighteen workers were killed and more than 100 were wounded in a blast at Gaddani ship breaking yard near Karachi on November 1. Initial reports suggest the blast occurred when…
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A 53-pound snapping turtle is recovering at a Houston wildlife rehabilitation center after fire-rescue crews saved it from a drainage pipe. The Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says the specimen, one of a threatened species known as alligator snapping turtles, was found wedged Tuesday in the pipe in a new residential…
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