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The contestants for the 2021 Gulder Ultimate Search Season 12 have finally been unveiled. This year’s edition has a fresh taskmaster but not someone fresh to the game. He won the 2010 Gulder ultimate search, popular actor Kunle Remi. The contestants are going to rumble and battle for the grand price of 50 million Naira. After intense regional screening across Lagos, Enugu, and Abuja, show organizers have noted that 20 candidates have been shortlisted for GUS 12 – ‘The Age of Craftsmanship. ’ It will be a struggle for the contestants against both themselves and nature for the quest to find the hidden treasure that will reward the last man standing with fortune and fame. Here are the Gulder Ultimate Search Contestants - The Age of Craftsmanship Jennifer Okorie Jennifer Okorie, better known as Queen Bee, is a 22-year-old philosophy student at Delta State University, and she wants to be the first female winner in the history of the reality show. In its 11 seasons run, no lady ha...

  Table of Contents   INTRODUCTION .. 4 EARLY LIFE . 5 CAREER . 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY . 8 AWARDS . 18 ACHIEVEMENTS . 20 BOOKS . 21 PERSONAL LIFE . 25               INTRODUCTION    COLLEEN HOOVER Colleen Hoover, born Margaret Colleen Fennell, is an American author and a New York Times Bestseller. With 11 of her novels and five of her novellas hitting number 1 on New York Times bestseller. Hoover's novels are mostly the young adult and new adult genres. EARLY LIFE On December 11, 1979, Colleen Hoover was born in Sulphur Springs, a city in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. She was born to Eddie Fennell and his wife, Vannoy Fite. Hoover grew up in an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, known as Saltillo. Hoover attended the Saltillo High School, where she graduated in 1998. Hoover attended a public research University in commerce known as Texas A&M University-Commerce...

Country Music Star Don Williams Dies at 78 Country music star, Don Williams, nicknamed “Gentle Giant” has passed at the age of 78. According to Billboard, the singer’s PR team confirmed the news, saying he died “after a short illness.” Williams was behind hit songs “Tulsa Time” and “It Must Be Love,” which topped the charts after they were released. His tribute album “Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams“ was issued in May, a day after he clocked 78. The album featured performances of his songs by current country heavyweights, including Garth Brooks and Lady Antebellum. May his soul Rest In Peace!

Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 73   A giant in the arts, Sam Shepard, the Oscar-nominated actor, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, screenwriter and director, died Thursday at his home in Kentucky of complications from ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease). He was 73.  Chris Boneau, a spokesman for Shepard’s family, confirmed Shepard’s death to The Times in a statement. “The family requests privacy at this difficult time,” he said. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play “Buried Child,” which centers around a family haunted by the past as it comes together in its aging Illinois farmhouse, reflecting shades of Shepard’s own childhood in the state with his alcoholic father.  Four years later, Shepard was acknowledged by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences when he was nominated for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in “The Right Stuff.”  Survivor...

Jay Z plans to bail out dads for Father's day, blasts the US criminal justice system in explosive op-ed Legendary American hip-pop artiste, Jay Z, who recently became the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and just became a new dad of twins, has revealed that he would help out fathers who are in jail because they can't afford bail, in celebration of Father’s day which is today. Jay Z made this known in a powerful op-ed which was first sighted by TIME. In the extensive and explosive piece, the rapper criticized the United State’s criminal justice for wrongful convictions. Read the full Op-ed after the cut... Seventeen years ago I made a song, "Guilty Until Proven Innocent." I flipped the Latin phrase that is considered the bedrock principle of our criminal justice system, ei incumbit probatio qui dicit (the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not on one who denies). If you're from neighborhoods like the Brooklyn...

Diddy's son makes his modeling debut at D&G fashion show. Diddy's 19 year old son Christian has made his debut as a runway model. He walked the runway at the Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan yesterday, in an eclectic couture ensemble and wearing a crown

Beyoncé Gives Birth to Twins With Jay Z.   Beyoncé has given birth to twins with Jay Z in L.A., multiple sources have confirmed to us. On Thursday, Jay Z and Blue Ivy were together spotted at a Los Angeles area hospital. While the twins' genders have yet to be revealed, on Friday, an unidentified woman carrying a bouquet of pink, purple and blue flowers with two giant baby foot-shaped pink and blue balloons that read, "Baby Girl" and "Baby Boy, was photographed dropping off the gift at the same Los Angeles hospital that Bey's husband and 5-year-old daughter were seen at the day prior. Upon inspection, the card attached to the flowers had a visible "B+J" written on the floral envelope.  The Grammy winner famously revealed that she was pregnant with two back in early February with an Instagram post that nearly broke the internet.  Queen Bey posted a photo of herself dressed in lingerie and surrounded by flowers and penned the foll...

Nicki Minaj Labels Her Next Album “Classic” It has been roughly two and a half years since Nicki Minaj released a studio album — but there has been a ton of activity since then. Records (and relationships) have been broken. So-called beef with Remy Ma. Even an appearance in her third movie. But for history’s most successful female rapper, there still has to be a musical initiative somewhere in the equation.  Nicki is now working on more music, she said in a new interview on DJ Whoo Kid’s Shade 45 show, Whoolywood Shuffle. When asked her goals for the remainder of her storied rap career and her forthcoming album. Nicki lets loose her ultimate aspirations for her fourth album, as well as the motivation behind it. “My goal right now is just releasing this fourth album and watching my fans react to it, because I know it’s going to be my best body of work,” Nicki told Whoo Kid. “That’s next on my bucket list, to deliver my fourth album and make sure that it’s a classic hip-hop a...

Batman’ star Adam West dies at 88   Adam West — an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series “Batman” — died Friday night in Los Angeles. He was 88. A rep said that he died after a short battle with leukemia. “Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans’ lives. He was and always will be our hero,” his family said in a statement.  West made his feature debut in 1959’s “The Young Philadelphians,” starring Paul Newman. Various supporting roles in movies and TV followed – including a part in the Three Stooges movie “The Outlaws Is Coming.” Born William West Anderson in 1928 in Walla Walla, Wash., the actor later adopted his stage name, and began his career in earnest when he moved to Hawaii in the 1950s to star in a local children’s program. He is survived by his wife Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.