Usher Raymond is engaged to his longtime girlfriend and business partner Grace Miguel, who he has been dating since his divorce from ex-wife Tameka Foster in 2009.
Another source also reveals that the hitmaker popped the question a week and a half ago.
The two lovebirds recently made a red carpet appearance together at the Golden
Globes Art of Elysium Heaven Gala in Los Angeles over the weekend
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Usher Raymond engaged!
BBC REPORT ABOUT GOLDEN GLOBE RATINGS...
Sunday's Golden Globe Awards ceremony was watched by 19.3 million people in the US, down 8% on last year's audience of 20.9 million.
According to Nielsen Media Research, viewer ratings also fell in the 18-49 age bracket, the group which advertisers are most keen to attract.
The 72nd awards ceremony, hosted by comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for the third and final time, was on NBC.
The pair drew 19.7 million viewers when they first hosted the show in 2013.
Last year's 20.9 million was a 10-year high for the Golden Globes.
This year, on top of the TV ratings, the hosts' opening monologue - which made several close-to-the-knuckle jokes about Bill Cosby - has racked up 3.5 million views on YouTube.
She Garrit! Fmr BBA Housemate, Huddah, puts her massive butt on display (pic)
Kenyan model, entrepreneur and former BBA Housemate, Huddah just shared this hot photo of herself rocking a super sexy lingerie.
According to her she loves rocking lingerie. "Wearing a lingerie is an indication of positive feelings. lingerie is a symbol of sensuality and sexuality," she said.
ExpOSITO!! Archbishop Reveals To Jonathan Who Is Behind Boko Haram
A senior Nigerian cleric, Archbishop Samuel Uche has alleged that Fulani and Kanuri were behind the Islamist group, Boko Haram, which has killed a number of Nigerians in the last five years, in a bid to seize power
The Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria disclosed this while speaking on Sunday during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Interdenominational Service held at National Ecumenical Centre in Abuja.
He made his comment in the presence of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Senate President David Mark, the military top brass and other important personalities.
According to Uche, soldiers waging war against the insurgents had disclosed to him and other bishops that apart from some collaborators from Chad, Libya and Somalia, 95 percent of those waging war against Nigeria were Fulani and Kanuri, Daily Trust reports.
He explained that those sabotaging the war against terrorism are within the political elites, while others are within the armed forces and other institutions.
The archbishop said: "Some shameless individuals and groups make such utterances and use grievous situations as a tool for politicking, blaming the government in power as doing nothing to solve the problem of insurgency. Who is deceiving who? I believe Nigerians are wiser and our people know that it's sabotage that's making it impossible for our Armed Forces to recover the Chibok girls.
"Let me reveal to you this evening and at this important service at this juncture that some of our soldiers, because you know we Bishops have impact in the society, we relate with soldiers and all manner of people. And some of the people in warfront have confided in us that apart from some mercenaries from Chad, Libya as well as Somalia, 95 percent of those fighting our country are of Fulani and Kanuri origin.
"They're aggrieved because they want power at all costs. They believe Nigeria belongs to them alone and that they're born to rule while others follow. It is deceit."
Speaking further, he said those behind insurgency want to Islamise Nigeria and build a parallel caliphate different from the Sokoto Caliphate.
He however said this could never happen as any attempt by any group of people "to Christianise or Islamise Nigeria is tantamount to futility and frivolity."
He added that every problem has an expiry date and though we may not know solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria, Boko Haram will be defeated.
He also called on the government to equip the military, take care of all the troops, provide good welfare packages for widows and children of slain soldiers.
This is coming amid the rising tension and fears over violence in Nigeria as the February elections fast approaches.
In the last one week, there have been political clashes in Rivers, Plateau and Gombe States.
In Jos, Plateau State, the campaign buses of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation were set ablaze.
In Rivers, the All Progressives Congress (APC) office in Okrika was attacked with dynamites.
In Gombe state, some PDP's belongings were burnt down on Sunday.
No RegRess!! Oil Will Never Return To $100. ..... Saudi Prince
At least that's what Saudi Prince Alwaleed believes about oil, which plunged below $46 a barrel on Monday for the first time since March 2009.
The well-known billionaire investor recently told USA Today he's positive we're "never" going to see $100-a-barrel oil prices again.
"There's less demand, and there's oversupply. And both are recipes for a crash in oil. And that's what happened. It's a no-brainer," Alwaleed told the paper.
The comments from the prince mirror ones by Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister who said $100 oil may be
a thing of the past in December.
Cheap gas here to stay? If those predictions are accurate, it could also mean gas in the U.S. might not go above $3 again. Thanks to the oil meltdown, the national average price of gas has plunged to $2.13, compared with $3.31 a year ago, according to AAA.
Back in 2008, oil broke through the $100 level for the first time, leading some to predict prices would spike to $200 due to surging demand from China and India. Then oil plummeted to $34 during the Great Recession before rebounding sharply.
Crude bounced between $90 and $110 over the past three years, trading above $100 as recently as late July. But that's when prices collapsed under the weight of a supply glut caused by North American production, including U.S. shale companies that need higher prices to be profitable.
Related: Big Oil loses $200B from oil crash
Shale is feeling the pain: Alwaleed said one "positive side effect" of the oil crash is it will allow Saudi Arabia to see "how many shale oil production companies run out of business."
Already, U.S. energy companies have dialed back their spending plans, cut dividends and laid off workers. Analysts believe some shale companies won't survive the drop in prices.
Now there are signs shale companies are cutting back on drilling. During the first week of 2015, oil companies reduced horizontal drilling for oil for the first time in the Bakken, Eagle Ford and Permian shale plays, according to Rystad Energy.
"'Rigs that count' have been resilient until now, but now these rigs are also being idled," said Per Magnus Nysveen, head of analysis at Rystad.
Now what? Investors continue to guess where oil is going next. After showing signs of stabilization last week, oil tumbled another 4% on Monday to $45.90. Some oil watchers believe prices could plunge as low as $30 due to oversupply and sluggish demand.
Goldman Sachs said on Monday oil may need to trade near $40 a barrel for most of the first half of 2015. That would keep capital on the sidelines and slow down supply growth to rebalance the global oil market, the bank said.
Once oil finds a bottom, Moody's senior economist Chris Lafakis thinks the black stuff could surge all the way back to $80 by the end of the year.
Alwaleed concedes a rebound may happen eventually. He just doesn't think it'll carry oil all the way back to $100.
Hol Up!! Is Young S.A Rapper 'Master Kay' back on TV? (Photos)
Master-Kay tweeted a photo yesterday without caption on Twitter.
The photo was showing him in photo shoot studio and a South African TV director Mary Rose who is a director on Sarafina movie and Clientele Life funeral cover commercials. According to the rumors , this is not the first time Master Kay & Mary work together.
A question is... Master-Kay is back on TV again or not?
Exposito!! See The Photos Of 17 year old Kylie Jenner pierced That Was Deleted From Instagram (photos)
Well This girl is doing too much for a 17 year old. Fake lashes, too much make-up, seductive poses, lip enhancement and now nipple piercing? Look at the right pic...can you see the piercing beneath the top? The pic was posted on Kylie's friend's instagram page but has since been taken down.
OH NO!! Blog Reader's Husband Threw Her Out of their Home because of His Aunty
Before we got married,
my husband's aunt gave me serious problems that I wanted to cancel but everyone kept telling me that she isn't my mother in-law so I should ignore her (she is my mother in-law's younger sister).
Even on our traditional wedding day, she had a serious argument with my mum. 3 days after our wedding, my husband who has never even playfully slapped me while we were
dating, gave me the beating of my life. And since then, it became a daily or weekly thing.
When I was pregnant, I went through hell because his aunt told him the child might not be his but you know how God works, the child came out looking like he vomited her. But she didn't stop there.
I got really tired of her and went to confront her. I told her to mind her business and to stop causing problems in my home only for her to surprise me by saying that if my marriage works, then she is not from Uvwie ( it's a LGA in Delta state).
You won't believe her next move, she called my husband that she saw me with a man, that if he doesn't want to die, he should send me packing. My husband who behaves as if he is been remoted from the coven, came home and said I should confess or leave his house. At first, I was confused until he told me his aunt called him that she saw me with a man. I laughed and told him she was lying that I went to her to talk to woman to woman concerning the problems she creates in our home.
My husband grew more angry saying that I have grown wings so therefore I must leave his house. He gave me the usual beating and threw my things out.
My neighbours pleaded to no avail. I then pleaded for my child but he refused. I slept at a neighbours house and the next day, my elder brother came to pack the things he threw out, and left my daughter behind "sobbing".
This happened on the 29th of December. Till date, I have not heard from my husband. I know he is kind of scared that my brother will harm him (my brother is a police Officer) but my only worry is my daughter. School will resume tomorrow and I miss her like mad. What should I do? My elder sister who is a lawyer said I can file for custody and I will be given because the child is just 3 years old. I'm confused.
Viewer Discretion!! This Is The Most Disgusting Baby Birthday CAKE EVER (photos)
JUST IN: APC Ward Chairman Attacked by Thugs, Inflicted With Severe Matchet Wounds
DAILY POST gathered that the thugs inflicted Emenike with severe matchet wounds.
An eyewitness who spoke with DAILY POST said the APC Chieftain was attacked when he tried to stop members of the PDP from destroying an APC banner in the area, "they were still arguing when one boy carried matchet and hit the man on his head," the witness said.
Just yesterday (Monday) members of the All Progressives Congress in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State staged a peaceful protest to the Rivers state Police Command.
The protesters also carried their demonstration to the Office of the Department of State Services.
They trooped out in their thousands, carried placards calling on the police to be neutral and remain non-partisan ahead of the next month's general elections.
Leader of the APC in Obio-Akpor, Tony Okocha had said members of the party may resort to self-help if the security agencies failed in their promise to protect APC members in the area.
"We have come to protest the killing of innocent Nigerians in the watchful eyes of the police; it is abnormal.
"Before now, the PDP has boasted that they are in charge of the police. And with these things we are seeing now, it seems they are right.
"We will not continue to fold our arms and watch these scenarios without helping ourselves.
"We have come to you so that you can bare us witness to let Nigerians know that there is orgy of violence in Obio-Akpor Local government.
"If the security agencies don't do anything about it, we may resort to self help. We will let them know that our peaceful disposition does not mean we are weaklings," Okocha emphasised.Rivers: Thugs inflict machete wounds on APC chieftain
EXpOSITO!! Michelle Williams Reacts to Beyonce's Pregnancy Rumours
The 33-year-old mama shared what appeared to be a pregnancy announcement over the weekend in a cryptic, eyebrow-raising Instagram pic that showed her with a big, sandy baby bump.
However, one of her best friends and "sisters," Michelle Williams says there's no truth to the story.
The former Destiny's Child crooner joined The View Monday morning and cleared the air about Bey's belly, claiming the pregnancy rumors are false.
"You know, when she was pregnant people said that she wasn't pregnant," she told the hosts. "And you know, it's just no truth to it. Sorry!"
After the panel jumped to analyze the "Partition" singer's sandy Instagram pic from the weekend, Williams added, "First of all, first of all, if you look at the picture, the baby bump is like where her knees probably really are so that's it really. All these allusions, just stop it, stop it, too many things."
Well, I guess we'll just have to take her word for it... That is until we (hopefully) hear anything different from Bey and Jay Z themselves!
Meanwhile, the power couple was busy celebrating Blue Ivy's third birthday last week, celebrating with a big rainbow cake at her Frozen-themed birthday party!
What Is She Suffering From? See Giuliana Rancic's Scary Skinny Figure at Golden Globes (photos)
These photos of 40 year old E! News correspondent, Guiliana Rancic at the Golden Globes caused a big stir on social media last night.
Could it be the cancer? Oh my! Her Forevermark diamond accessories,, cost a whopping $2.2m sha.
OMG!! KIM K What?? See Very Disturbing Photos of Guy with the Largest Hips on Instagram
See who we just found on Instagram, guys! lol. Meet 20 year old up and coming singer Micah. He is a man, ok?
But he's also got hips that are larger than life. His measurements are - chest: 41.5" waist: 37" butt/hips: 63". Are we making him our 'Hottie of the day' or not?
Am still yet to verify whether it is natural or he had a butt implant , but we just have to admit that only a handful of girls can beat his ASS GAME ..... Whew
We don't know whether he is Gay or not , but damn those rich gays will likely turn him gay if he is not one already cause HE GOT IT ......
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