The contest for the mouth-watering prizes took an ecstatic dimension today as the contestants treated the whole of West Africa to Global Urban Hits in preparation for the grand-finale. It’s been a exhilarating 10 weeks for all the contestants on their journey to fame. With seventeen contestants at the opening gala, six contestants are at this stage contending for the grand prize. Who then will carry the day? On a very intense note, Ethel who has been christened the ‘Queen of Ghana Swagger’ opened the floor with Britney Spear’s ‘Till The World Ends’. At this point, the judges could not but wonder at her improved skills and the ease at which she now performs. Roy brought an A-game to play and showed that he is not just the last man standing but he is very much up to the challenge. He gave a very electrifying performance of Maroon 5’s ‘Move like a Jagger’. He blew everyone away and got us all moving like a jagger.

Pretty Yvonne rose up to the task as she comfortably held everyone spellbound with Adele’s ‘Someone like you’. Her sonorous voice and smooth transition from normal voice to falsetto was well commended by the judges and the faculty felt so proud of her. Energetic Ruth proved how matured she has grown with a spot-on vocal dexterity as she performed Rihanna’s ‘We Found Love’. Monica raised the bar again tonight with Chris Brown’s ‘Yeah x3’. Her energetic and captivating dance steps were just on-point and she was christened ‘the most focused singer’.

Another night of suspense, who is going home?

The competition is hotter now, the contestants are good singers but the judges are looking out for the performance and the X factor they have to bring into the competition. So, tonight these singers needed to not only up their games to please the judges but also to escape elimination.

Earlier in the day, the ambience lit up as the excitement rose to a fever pitch with the visit of Midnight Star and SWV that rocked the world with breathtaking R&B music to the Ultima Studios, Lekki all the way from the US of A to give the contestants moral support and encourage them to be the best in all they do. They had fun so much as the contestants and uncle Ben in particular treated them to different Nigerian hits.

Back to the gist of the evening, with the conscpicous absence of the Academy Principal, award winning actress Joke Silver who is fondly referred to as 'Mummy J', the show kicked off as Ghanaian Ethel did a smooth presentation of Lucky Dube's 'Different Colours' as the other contestants on probation performed the same songs that landed them on Probation one after the other.

Then came 'judgement' time. Surprisingly, the highest vote from viewers went not to Ethel as usual, not to Rachael, but to Roy...wow! and that was how the last guy standing escaped elimination. Ethel found favour in the face of the judges as they gladly saved, Ese was saved by the Faculty. As Monica and Ruth were the contestants not on probation, it was therefore their bid to save the last contestant. While Monica rooted Rachael, Ruth voted Yvonne and the need to break the tie came and the contestant saved by the viewers was called to do this. Roy with much thought saved Yvonne and that marked the exit of our Liberian Princess and Rachael. Sadly, though Princess and Rachael brought all their energy and best into their performance, they were not lucky enough to escape the sting of elimination.

When asked how they both felt about their exit, Princess obviously felt bad but still did not forget to send all appreciation to God almighty for bringing her this far. Rachael in her own words said, 'I never imagined I'll be here at a point in my life where I didn't believe I could do anything, but here I am'. God loves me she concluded.

The evening show came to a beautiful end as they both performed Whitney Houston and Cece Winnan's 'Count on me' as it ushered in an evening of beautiful duets tomorrow.