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Michael Jackson paved the way for many of today’s superstars. One of pop music’s biggest names, Beyoncé, paid homage to her idol during the star-studded “Michael Forever” tribute concert at Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday (Oct. . B appeared in a pre-taped piece to deliver one of MJ’s Motown classics following an introduction from Michael’s children Prince, Paris, and Blanket.
“She is always pushing the envelope with her boundless energy and talent,” said Paris. “She carries the torch lit by our father and it gives me great pleasure to introduce this woman.”
B donned an Afro wig as she and her all-female band grooved to a funky cover of “I Wanna Be Where You Are,” originally performed by a young Michael in 1972. “I remember seeing Michael Jackson for the first time. Lord knows I fell in love,” said the pregnant singer, who gave audience members goosebumps as she channeled MJ with her moves.
“Watching him I realized exactly what I wanted to be. He inspired me so much. As a matter of fact, the first song I performed with Destiny’s Child was a Jackson 5 song. It’s called ‘Where You Are.’ It’s the song we auditioned to get our record deal. It was the beginning of our future. I love you forever, Michael Jackson.”
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Things get a little sensual with Beyoncé on the set of her new commercial with L’Oreal Paris. She candidly practiced her French accent and gets “honest, pure and deep” for the clip, turning on the sexy charm when the cameras started rolling.

Check out a behind-the-scenes look at the Pop singer’s commercial below

[url]http://www.mercyjohnson.com/videobeyonce’s-new-l’oreal-commercial-in-paris[/url]

In what could pass as a shocking revelation, a Ugandan news media  published a story in which they exposed women they said are prostituting themselves to foreign stars. Continue,

Source: http://www.mercyjohnson.com/p-squarekanu-nwankwo-zack-orji-accused-of-sleeping-with-ugandan-girls-and-woman-also-pays-flavor-10000-for-a-night-stand

A 10-years-old girl survived after she was mauled, violated and buried in a shallow grave in a remote village in Magpet town in North Cotabato.

read : http://www.mercyjohnson.com/?p=3732

Is Obama abandoning his bid for a second term in the White House and is giving Colonel Sanders a run for his money by opening a chain of fried chicken joints?

Now that’s change you can’t really believe in. But in Beijing, China, a restaurant is actually calling itself OFC with a logo that looks alarmingly like the President dressed in the colonel’s clothes.

You can watch the advert here. Very funning ad

http://www.mercyjohnson.com/obama-fried-chicken-is-racist-chinese-kfc-restaurant-in-beijing

Kanye West made his Paris Fashion Week debut Saturday night (October 1), launching a womenswear line with a high-profile show that was sexy, swaggering and, of course, incredibly stylish.

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Mother to-be Beyonce is experiencing the many perks of pregnancy including weird smells lol! During a recent interview she said she hates the way hubby Jay Z smells now! “Oh! My nose is like [mimics radar] ‘doot, doot, doot’! I smell everything! It enhances it. If it smells bad, I smell it! My husband’s fragrance, his one that I always love, I hate right now. So, thank God I love this one.”

Bey is busy promoting her new fragrance Pulse. She also said her mom still has a huge impact on what she wears… “Absolutely! I was doing a photo shoot and I was like, a little too risque and I heard a noise that sounded like my mom’s footsteps because she walks really heavy, I was like AHH!”

Listen to Beyonce Interview
http://www.mercyjohnson.com/i-hate-the-way-jay-z-smells-pregnant-beyonce

It has been claimed that Jay-Z allegedly fathered a secret love child with Trinidad model Shenelle Scott. According to Star magazine, the 41-year-old rapper fathered a young boy nine years ago with the model and is still in contact

with her, also giving her child support. Malik

Sayeed had been wrongly identified as the child’s father, but DNA reports proved that the ‘99 Problems’ singer is the child’s biological father “At the time he was born, my son Malik thought he was his child, but they did DNA tests. It’s been determined that the child is Jay-Z’s baby,” the Daily Mail quoted Sayeed’s father Jerard Andrews as saying.

Sayeed’s friends forced him to get a paternity test after the baby’s arrival as Scott had been seen around Jay-Z.

“Malik threw Shenelle a baby shower and bought all this stuff to prepare for the arrival. However, after the baby was born, friends and family told him he needed to get a DNA test,” a source told the magazine.

“Everyone knew she was sleeping around and sleeping with Jay. There was a good chance it was his,” the source added.

A source told the magazine that the child posses many of Jay-Z’s features, and that the rap mogul is currently paying Scott child support, and that he even helped the new mother set up a home in Trinidad.

These people sef, why did you choose to spill the beans now? No wonder he didn’t pressure Mama B to have a baby…

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http://www.mercyjohnson.com/jay-z-has-secret-9-year-old-old-love-child/

NA WAOO, WONDER WILL NEVER END. Everyday new story

May be Ghananians are just jealous of Nigeria celebrities, because i see no big deal between van Vicker and Tonto dikeh arguing.

According to a Ghana-based celebrity blog, Van Vicker is a highly respected person in Ghanaian movie industry and they will not tolerate such insolence from any artiste either from home or abroad.
“Can she insult RMD like that” one movie director asked?
They have promised to sanction any movie director that features Tonto in his/her movie, and will formally write Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) to express their displeasure.
No words yet from Tonto Dikeh on whether she will humbly accede to the request or call their bluff.
But you all can guess her stand on this.

SOURCE: [url]http://www.mercyjohnson.com/apologize-to-van-vicker-or-don’t-come-to-ghana”movie-directors-warns-tonto-dikeh/[/url]

A source close to the former couple said that Lovely Okojie has gone into hiding because of the shame and emotional torture she passed through. she has finally broken down and currently in a state of recovery.

Our source also told us that she lamented on how she picked Prince Odianosen up from the streets of Italy, clothed him, housed him and even helped him get a resident permit. She cursed and called him all sorts of names like darky and puree boy. Puree boys as they are popularly know as in Italy.

Mercy Johnson celebrity magazine has tried numerous times to contact Lovely Okojie to comfirm these statements but all efforts to reach her have proven abortive.

We shall keep you posted as soon as we get more information.

Source: http://www.mercyjohnson.com/mercy-johnson-wins-lovely-okojie-goes-into-hiding/

The Russian Federation is to sign an agreement with the FG that will see Nigeria own its first Nuclear power plant
In a move to stabilise Nigeria’s power generation capacity, the Federal Government is set to sign a contract with the Russian Federation.

Minister of Science and Technology, Ita Oko-Bassey Ewa, yesterday in Abuja, received a 7-man delegation from the Russian Federation, concerning the contract’s signing, which will see to the building of Nigeria’s first nuclear power plant.

According to Ita, the power plant was first proposed in 2009 between the two countries; and that he disliked the fact that an agreement had not yet been reached since then.

He, however, assured that “follow up meetings are now being initiated to discuss modalities for its implementation.”

”A draft project implementation agreement has been prepared and ready for signing,” he added.

Ita said that Nigerian needed to diversify its source of electricity and that the FG had set up the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, as a body to help achieve that objective.

Director-General of the Russian State Corporation (RUSATOM), Nikolay Spassy, assured a good job, as he stated that Russian Federation had notable records in the building of nuclear power plants.

Source:
http://nigeriapoliticss..com/2011/07/nigeria-to-build-nuclear-power-plant.html

The move to elongate the tenure of the president and governors from the current four years to six but limited to one term as against the present two via a constitution amendment may be a titanic battle between Nigerians in favour and those against.

This is evident in the disposition of many senators who are bracing up for the battle ahead of the amendment to the constitution, the third attempt since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democratic governance.

The first effort was aborted in 2006, no thanks to the bid to extend the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo from the two terms provided under the 1999 Constitution to three while the second, last year, succeeded and amended certain electoral provisions in the document.
Although the National Assembly is alleged to have issues with funding on the latest constitution amendment as there is no provision in the current budget for the exercise, the House of Representatives has already constituted a 37-member Constitution Review Committee (CRC) for the amendment, leaving the Senate to do same.

Other issues that may enjoy prominence under the constitution amendment include state creation and the emergence of a new revenue formula.

The South-East, which is the only geo-political zone out of the six that has five states as against six by the others, has been in the forefront of the creation of at least an additional state in the zone.

Revenue allocation formula has, of late, been a contentious issue amid the new minimum wage crisis which has seen the states hinging their ability to pay on the upward review of their allocation from the federation account.

Senators, who shared their perspectives on the constitution amendment that would give the president and governors a single term of six years, are divided on the move.

Senator Babayo Gamawa (PDP, Bauchi North) described the six-year single term as the road to corruption and under-performance by the president and governors.

To Senator Ifeanyi Okowa (PDP, Delta North), single term will kill the opportunity by the electorate to assess the office holders before renewing their mandate.

Senator Ita Solomon Enang (PDP, Akwa Ibom) said single term of six years is a wicked move.

Senator Smart Adeyemi (PDP, Kogi West) believes single tenure will remove frictions and promote national development.

Senator Uche Chukwumerije (PDP, Abia North) contended that single tenure for the president and governors will ease the operation of power shift.

To Senator Esther Nenadi Usman (PDP, Kaduna South), the issue should be left for the people to decide.
The senators spoke separately to Sunday Vanguard at the weekend.

Kicking against the six-year single tenure move, Gamawa said it will make the incumbent to under perform knowing fully well that he will not be eligible for re-election.

He said, “Everybody has his or her own ideas when it comes to politics. But in politics, there should be room for opposition and checks. If we allow single term of six years, somebody will forget to do something good for the electorate because they know that they are not coming back for election.

“But leaving the four year single tenure as we have now with an option of another four years, if you are lucky to be re-elected as an incumbent, you will want to do something good for the people. I think the two-term system is good for us. There will be more productivity and more accountability to the people.”

Okowa, who toed Gamawa’s line, noted that the current status of four-year single term with an option of another term should be maintained. “I support two terms of office because it gives the public the room to assess you midway before the election. If you as a governor or president performs or not, the electorate will assess you and decide whether to vote for you or not, but the single tenure does not give room for them to assess you. You can just come on and do whatever you like and then go because nobody will assess you knowing that you are not coming for election again”, the senator said.

The senator added that stakeholders must be brought on board to decide whether Nigeria needs six years single term or four years of two terms.

He said, “For now, there is constitutional provision for a four-year term of office for the president and the governors. Anything outside that has to come through amendment of the constitution. We just came out of election and the people of Nigeria voted for four years. We need to have a stakeholders view on this and any change should only come up through amendment of the constitution.”

Adeyemi said six-year single tenure will remove frictions and engender development in Nigeria.

“I think it is good if you take into consideration our development and our diversities as a people. It is not out of place because it will enable us stabilize the polity because every area knows that it will get to them. It will enable Nigerians to have a sense of belonging, because the fear of marginalisation will be gone, as every section of the country will not feel they are being marginalized”, he stated.

Chukwumerije said that four-year term is not enough, but a six year single term should be enough for any one who comes to office with a vision to settle down and carry out developmental work, adding that this would enable the government meet the expectations of the people.

According to him, with single six-year term, the people would be be sure of power shifting to all the geo-political zones of the country.

Senator Zainab Kure (PDP, Niger South), who noted that she only read it in the newspapers, said that nobody has presented the matter before her or the Senate and, on that score, she may not be able to comment on that.
Enang, who described the move as too early, said that anyone who is thinking of the single six-year term at this critical period of the nation’s democracy is wicked.
According to him, what should preoccupy the minds of Nigerians now must be how to support President Goodluck Jonathan in delivery to the people the dividends of democracy, adding that the president has just kick started his economic blueprint for the country and recently put in place his ministers to drive the economy in creating employment and developing the country.

http://nigeriapoliticss..com/2011/07/6-yr-term-for-president-govs-senators.html

@RICHIE BOI. I mean with the way the world see us.

I am beginning to suspect this US their up-to is not good. with all this shit going on, they remove Nigeria from Terror List.

Nigeria may have been delisted from the countries that harbour or sponsor terrorism against the United States (US) and its allies which was the source of diplomatic tension between the two countries following the ill-fated attempt by a foreign based Nigerian student, Farouk Umar Farouk Abdulmuttallab, to bomb a plane in Detroit, US on December 25, 2009.
Nigeria’s external image took a dip in January 2010, when the US placed the country on global terror list following the failed attempt by Abdulmutallab to detonate the bomb strapped to his pants while, on the domestic front, there have been a spate of bomb blasts targeted at politicians, the security agencies, churches and academic institutions by the Boko Haram sect operating in the northern part of the country.

Read. http://nigeriapoliticss..com/2011/07/us-removes-nigeria-from-terror-list.html


THANK GOD NIGERIA IS NOT A TERRORIST ANYMORE, WHAT ARE GREAT NEWS I HAVE HEARD.

London Ambulance Service found singer at 3.54pm but unable to save her life
Police treated death as 'unexplained'

Full story. http://gossipssquare..com/2011/07/breaking-news-amy-winehouse-27-found.html

Young man may your soul rest in peace.

As for me i think there is more to this.

Thumb Up for you GEJ,

An an exclusive email forwarded to the mail box of DESERT HERALD, leadership of the radical Islamic sect, Ahl As-sunnah wa Aljama’a Ala Minhaj As-Salaf popularly referred to as Boko Haram which claimed responsibility of several targeted killings and bombings including the one in the Police headquarters said “we have resolved to temporarily halt our fight against the assassins of our leaders in compliance with the prohibition of fighting in the holy month of Ramadan


Full Story
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