Oge set to open new beauty store In Lagos and London

Oge Okoye will anytime from now set up her beauty store in Lagos. She is currently importing all she will be needing to make it one of the best in town. You will get to buy all make-up products ranging from concealer, foundation, primer, lip sticks, lip pencils, lip pumice, lip seals and even eye pencils in her stores once it's opened. According to her, they are opening soon in Lagos and London. -

Tonto Dikeh's birthday bash at CoKobar in London ( Photos)

The birthday party held last night at CoKobar, London. More photos After the Break

Macy Gray at the London jazz festival

For someone whose entire career seems to be built on the success of one hit single, 13 years ago, Macy Gray still manages to exude a certain star quality. Tonight she's a mere guest in saxophonist David Murray's show. But as Gray teeters out in impossibly high heels, wiggling like a Robert Crumb cartoon character and wearing the first of four flamboyant outfits, there's no question as to who's the main attraction.

Once upon a time, some people thought her Marge Simpson-does-Donald Duck shtick made Macy Gray the new Billie Holiday. It doesn't. Gray can't improvise, has little range, poor diction, dreadful mic technique and requires a lyric sheet for each song – yet these drawbacks aren't always a problem. Her croaky whisper is an effective instrument on the big-band funk of Murray's Be My Monster Love and a Willie Dixon blues called Dead Presidents. She bumbles amiably through Arcade Fire's Wake Up and Kanye West's Love Lockdown (both choices on her recent covers album).

Generally, though, what carries the show is the musicianship. Support act Jay Phelps and his tidy hard-bop quartet are good, but they are blown away by Murray's Anglo-American 15-piece band, who marry Ellingtonian textures with a sensationally funky rhythm section and the freakier worlds of Albert Ayler. Murray's relentless solos – a seamless montage of bluesy squawks, shrieks and false registers – are often compelling.

If there's a problem, it's that Murray's rather aimless original material rarely does his band justice. Even Gray's own lightweight songs – such as an early album track that greets her arrival – serve as a timely reminder that even the greatest jazz musicians can learn a lot about songwriting from pop.

Miss Ghana 2012 Contestants Take To Street Catwalk In London

This year's edition of the Miss Ghana contest is surely pushing the boundaries and setting new heights and standards for future beauty pageantry around Africa. The contestants for this year''s miss Ghana were taken for a cat-walking event in London, photos from the exhibition below: