E-PRAISE BLOGSPOT.COM: August 2015

Monday, 31 August 2015

Dove Awards Nominees Announced

Nominees were announced today for the 46th Annual Dove Awards, which will return to the city of Nashville at the Allen Arena on the campus of Lipscomb University on October 13th. The show will air on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) on October 18th.
In the Gospel Artist of the Year category, nominations went to Erica Campbell, Fred Hammond, Israel & New Breed, Jonathan McReynolds, Tamela Mann and Tasha Cobbs. For a full list of nominees, see the list here: 46th Annual Dove Award Nominees

Erica Campbell To Host Doves

The Gospel Music Association has announced that Erica Campbell will host the 46th Annual Dove Awards along with Duck Dynasty’s Sadie Robertson. The awards are set for October 13 at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena.
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Jeff Hargrove Takes New VP Post at Tyscot

Congrats to Jeff Hargove on his promotion to Vice President of Marketing and Promotions for Tyscot Music & Entertainment, Tyscot LOUD and Tyscot Films. Hargrove served for 12 years as the chief radio promotions strategist for Tyscot before assuming the position of VP of Promotions in 2007. “I am ext

remely excited about my expanded role with Tyscot Music & Entertainment, Tyscot LOUD and Tyscot Films. I’m humbled that Dr. Leonard Scott and Pastor Bryant Scott have chosen to afford me this tremendous opportunity to further contribute to a company that I strongly believe is positioned for even greater things to come,” Hargrove shared.
President Bryant Scott spoke of Hargrove’s new post, “Jeff is a twenty-year industry veteran with the experience, proven skills and Christ-centered values of which I’m confident will aid him greatly in taking our artists and their projects, our films and our company brands to the next level; an even brighter future.”

Dee-1 Releases Im Not Perfect Music Video

Yahoo Music premieres I’m Not Perfect, the new video from RCA Inspiration artist Dee- 1 today. I’m Not Perfect is the lead single from Dee-1’s EP released thi past February. “There was a pivotal shift in my Christian walk around the time I wrote ‘I’m Not Perfect’,” said rapper Dee-1. “I made the bold decision to declare my faith…I wanted to please God and not man. In the video we use strong visuals to make this message clear.”

Tiff Joy Releases Debut CD September 25th

What an amazing experience it has been for Chicago native Tiffany Joy McGhee. The singer songwriter penned the song Amazing and performe

d it locally around the Chicagoland area. The song caught the attention of Donald Lawrence who in turned mentioned it to Ricky Dillard, and the rest is history. A performance on the Stellar Awards started the movement. “Amazing” would go on to capture the title of 2014 “Song of the Year” in addition to holding the number one spot on Billboard’s Gospel singles chart for over 30 consecutive weeks.
Tiff Joy uses “Chicago power”connecting with award winning producer VaShawn Mitchell for her 12 track debut CD for Mitchell’s Walkway Music Group/ VMan Entertainment and Tyscot Records. The CD hits stores and digital outlets on September 25th.

New Jerusalem Celebrates 50 Years

Whenever we get an opportunity to remember the heyday of Mass Choirs, we seize the opportunity. Now, truth be told, we got a little misty eyed and waxed nostalgic with news of New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist Church celebrating its 50th anniversary on October 17th and 18th. An anticipated part of the celebration is the reunion of the New Jerusalem Inspirational Choir. Under the direction of Curtis Hayes and Jeffrey LaValley, New Jerusalem made its mark recording some 10 albums giving us a reason to go to Flint, Michigan to hear Sunday morning church music with HITS that include Everything Will Be Alright (with James Cleveland), The Lord is My Light, I Can’t Feel At Home, His Eye is on the Sparrow, Show Me the Way (with the inimitable voice of the late Bishop Odis Floyd on lead) and the unforgettable Revelations 19 (Hallelujah, Salvation and Glory).

Tasha Cobbs Hits The Road For One Place Live

Motown Gospel celebrated the release of One Place Live, the follow up CD from Grammy, Dove and Stellar Gospel Music Award winner Tasha Cobbs on August 21st. The new disc fulfills its duty picking up where Grace left off, delivering powerful praise and worship music to the masses. Just this past week, Cobbs was greeted with the news of a Dove Award nomination for Gospel Artist of the Year.
In support of the CD’s release, Cobbs made appearances at Tony Evans’ Oak Cliff Bible Church as well as sharing the stage during this year’s MegaFest Celebration in Dallas. On Labor Day weekend, she will join CeCe Winans, Marvin Sapp and Tye Tribbet at Brooklyn’s Barclay Center as well as share in ministry at Greenville’s SpiritFest with Tamela Mann and Israel Houghton.

Kirk Franklin Releases New Single

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Overnight, Kirk Franklin broke his musical silence of nearly five years! Premiering this morning on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, the lead single “Wanna Be Happy?” was available on ITunes as of midnight. Franklin is also set to perform it this coming Sunday August 30, at the live season finale of BET’s Sunday Best.

Toyin Lawani stuns in all-pink

Love the outfit...

More photos of the Kardashians at the 2015 VMAs. Kim, Kourtney, Kylie and their Mom Kris were all at the event. Kendall and Khloe were MIA More photos after the cut...

A goat in Muzuwerani Kwa Ndomo, Kilishi County, Kenya gave birth to a kid with two fore legs and four hind legs. This is the third delivery for the mother goat, according to the goat's owner Omar.

"The goat has given birth twice before to normal twins. However, when it came to the third delivery, I was shocked to see the kid having six legs and the reproductive organ located beneath the legs.It uses the same organ to pass both urine and excrement." he said.

The teenager wore this sexy racy bondage style dress as she joined older sisters Kim and Kourtney, Kim's husband Kanye West, mum Kris Jenner and boyfriend Corey Gamble and her own boyfriend Tyga for dinner after the VMAs yesterday. More pics after the cut..

Music star Seyi Shay is the cover person for the September issue of Blanck digital magazine. Lovely covers. See the 3rd one after the cut...

Fame And Luv, Nigeria’s No. 1 Photo Film Series, is giving you the opportunity to showcase your Talent on a nationwide stage. From the Friday, the 28th of August, to Monday, the 14th of September, 2015, you can Audition for a place in Fame and Luv Media. All you need to do is send your pictures and samples to talent@fameandluv.com for selection! Winners will get a full Contract and Salary!

Kourtney Kardashian shared this on Instagram hours after her in-law, Kanye West announced at the VMAs that he will be running for president in 2020. Lol. Better them than Oga Dona Trump.

Burna Boy and Cynthia Morgan kiss (photos)

Cynthia shared the photo and wrote "Let’s just be honest! Let’s just be real!". She's since deleted it. Mostly likely from a video shoot? Another photo after the cut...

Nigeria basketball team, D'Tigers won its first continental title at the 2015 African Basketball Championship which held in Tunisia yesterday August 30th. The basketball team beat defending champions Angola by 74 points to 65.

Their victory at yesterday's match gave them automatic qualification to participate in the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Brazil.

These photos were posted by the twitter handle of Ekiti state government. It shows some civil servants who were caught coming late to work by Fayose, who paid an unscheduled visit to the state secretariat, begging him to forgive them for coming late.

The Entrepreneurs' Club launches for SMEs & Start-Ups

Are you a start-up owner? An entrepreneur?A tech enthusiast? Kaymu has partnered with Lagos State Chamber of Commerce and Industry to bring to you the Entrepreneurs’ Club holding September 4th 2015 at the LCCI Event and Exhibition Centre Alausa from 9am-3pm with the theme “Empowering The New Generation SME”

These are blow by blow details of how Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mbuso Mandela, allegedly raped a 15year old girl as contained in a police statement signed by Lieutenant Dithoso Mmako of Hillbrow police's investigating unit.

"The victim, a minor female, was in the company of two friends, also minors, at Mamas Restaurant in Greenside,Johannesburg, where. they attended an arranged event," the statement reads. One of whom introduced himself to the victim as 'Mbuso Mandela'. After a conversation of about five minutes, the three males asked the three females to go with them to another place, but they declined.

Singer Timi Dakolo pictured losing his daughter's hair. 100 yards of husband material. Lol.

Blac Chyna's new man grabs her butt in new photo

I'm saying new man because who else would you let grab your butt like that? Still dressed in her outfit to the VMAs, Blac Chyna shared a photo of a mystery man grabbing butt. Looks like she wants us to know she's taken.

Now check out this cute football field cake...

Our bakers are very creative! This is co cute...

Get in here! Yudala Online is live with mega sweet deals

Yudala, which means Best Wishes, Peace of Mind and Prosperity, is Nigeria’s first true e-commerce and offline retail chain revolution. Yudala is a composite retail platform which combines the power of e-commerce with offline stores located nationwide in providing and delivering a wide range of quality goods and services from the biggest brands.

She shared the photo and wrote "Mood today, VMAs!". Her former lips (left) vs her new lips with wings (right) lol.

Photos of the victims of ill-fated Airforce helicopter crash in Kaduna on Saturday

Picture above shows the pilot of the ill fated Air force helicopter, Squadron Leader Adekunle Suara with his wife on their wedding day just last year. Continue to see photos of the other victims.

The people have spoken! Lol.. In a new twitter poll where people were asked to choose between Kanye West & Donald Trump as a Presidential candidate for the 2020 election, the rapper beat Trump by thousands of votes.

As seen in Benin this morning...

Women are not supposed to be pastors? Really?

Bilyak Consulting offering students/entrepreneurs opportunity to win N100k

Bilyak Consulting Limited a Nigerian ICT firm and provider of the elearning platform www.mylearningacademy.com are offering students and entrepreneurs opportunity to win N100,000 grant every month by completing certain task, which is stated on the platforms announcement page. It is hoped that this opportunity will aid 10 people ease funding of their education or small business every month for the period it is being offered.

: ISIS sets four men ablaze in Iraq

ISIS this weekend released these horrific photos of 4 men they burnt to death in Anbar, Iraq. The photos are quite graphic so be warned. See after the cut...

On Tuesday, August 25, a Rwandan pastor, Salim Mikdad, conducted what is arguably the largest conversion of Christians to Islam after he successfully got all 480 members of his congregation to switch faiths, Africa Metro reports.

The Pakistani and Indian High Commissioners to Nigeria have disagreed over reports that the two Nigerian students that were arrested in India are on their way to join the terrorist group, Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.

Hey people, ready to win some money today? Let's do this! I'm giving away N100k today. N20k each to the.. 1st to comment. 29th to comment. 99th to comment. 167th to comment & 200th to comment. Good luck guys!

Buhari never promised he was going to do anything in 100 days- Lai Mohammed

APC national spokesperson, Lai Mohammed this morning on Channels TV said President Buhari never promised to do anything within his 1st 100 days in office.

"Buhari never promised to do anything in 100 days, that's the honest truth. You see, when you are running a campaign, all kinds of literature will emerge from all sorts of groups but I came here and I said there are only just two documents that you can judge a party with. that is the constitution of the party and the manifesto of the party. Those are the only two documents that are registered with INEC you can go to court on or hold a party accountable for" he said

Kylie and Tyga were all over each other in his new music video for 'Stimulated', the song where he talked about having relations with her, despite her young age. Check out the video after the cut...

Olamide and Phyno painted Lagos and Enugu city black during the week. The rappers decided to extend the Made of Black campaign to the people by rewarding some amazing individuals, whom they feel embody the Made of Black attitude.

Definitely from a video... we dey wait!

UNIPORT students protest after one of their classmates dies

Kel was a 2nd year student of Theatre and Film department, UNIPORT. She collapsed while having a bath around 5am yesterday and was rushed to the Emergency unit of the University of Port harcourt teaching Hospital. According to her friend, UPTH allegedly rejected her, saying there was no bed space. She was then rushed to a private hospital that referred her back to UPTH. She unfortunately died before getting there.

Same Neyo who told the mother of his first two children, Monyetta Shaw, to have her tubes tied because he doesn't want more children, announced on instagram yesterday that he's expecting baby number 3 with popular instagram model Crystal Renay, who he has secretly married.

Kaira beauty Line is known for its quality and luxurious skin care products, human hair and high end fashion wears. The C.E.O Muna Oyeka has launched a new outlet in yaba area of lagos state to further facilitate client's accessibility to products.

Kaira Beauty Line stocks products aimed at nourishing the skin and repairing damaged skin cells with products that are 100% free of harsh chemicals like mercury,parabean and steroids.

Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha has appealed to President Buhari to consider the people of the South East in his appointments. According to Vanguard, Governor Okorocha made the appeal during a meeting with selected stakeholders in the state over the weekend

"What I can only do is to continue to appeal to the president to consider the South-East in his appointments. And as far as I am concerned, the president had executed what the office empowers him to do, and it is believed that he did that in the best interest of the nation.