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The list of nominees for the 5th Edition of the 2018 edition of the Africa Muzik Magazine Awards & Music Festival (AFRIMMA) has been released. The list includes artists like Davido, Wizkid, Fally Ipupa, DJ Spinall, Tiwa Savage, Diamond Platinum among others. This year, AFRIMMA added a new category tagged ‘AFRIMMA Achievers Award’. This category was created to celebrate the achievements of Africans in the fields of entertainment and sports. This year’s awards will be held at the ‘House of Blues’, Dallas, Texas on October 7th, 2018. Go to www.afrimma.com now to vote for your favorite artists. See the full list of nominees below:…

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook,  is now the sixth-richest person with $70.6 billion, down three rungs on billionaires index, Bloomberg revealed Friday. Zuckerberg is said to have lost $15.9 billion on Facebook’s drop. However, a plunge in Facebook shares erased almost $120 billion of the social media giant’s market value Thursday, snapping a three-day winning streak for the S&P 500 index. Facebook’s 19 per cent tumble was the worst in the company’s history and led a sell-off in technology companies that offset solid gains in other areas of the market, including industrial and energy stocks and consumer goods companies.…

Africa is expected to experience the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century today Friday 27 July, 2018. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, two partial eclipse of the sun will appear in the sun this summer but their viewing conditions will be less than ideal. The total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, as the moon turns red. “The duration of the total phase of the eclipse will span 1 hour 42 minutes and 57 seconds; a contrast to the shortest total lunar eclipse of this century, which occurred on April 4, 2015 and lasted 4…

The embattled Dino Melaye representing Kogi West senatorial district, Thursday, failed to appear in court in Lokoja for continuation of his alleged gun-running trial. His lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, who was represented in the court by Bar. Yemi Mohammed, told the trial Magistrate, Suleyman Abdalah, that he had it on good authority that Senator Dino Melaye was attacked in Gwagwalada on his way to the court. Meanwhile, spokesperson of the senator, Ayodele Gideon, confirmed the attack, saying the whereabouts of the senator was yet unknown. Mohammed said in the court, “I learnt that he was attacked…

Six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who responsible for the deaths of dozens of people have been executed, according to Japan’s justice minister. The group’s leader Shoko Asahara — real name Chizuo Matsumoto — was executed earlier in July, along with six other members of the cult, which was responsible for a sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway in 1995. Other members of Aum Shinrikyo who had been sentenced to death were hanged Thursday morning, Justice Minister Yoko Kawakami told reporters. The Tokyo attack was part of a murder spree throughout the country that left 29 people dead.…

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Senate Chief Whip, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, and former governor of Zamfara State, Sani Yerima, were absent as the Senate caucus of the All Progressives Congress, APC, paid a solidarity visit on President Muhammadu Buhari at the First Lady Conference Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, Wednesday night. This is even as one of the senators that announced his defection Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, Lanre Tejuosho made a surprised return top the APC, telling the President “your son is back.” His statement drew cheers from both his colleagues and the President. President Buhari jokingly replied to Tejuosho,…

The ruling All Progressives Party, APC, may not be the same, numerical wise, with the planned exit of Abdulfatah Ahmed, governor of Kwara state from the ruling party. With this exit, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the opposition party may become the greatest beneficiary of the defections as Governors of Benue, Samuel Ortom and that of Sokoto, Aminu Tambuwal have already left the ruling party and pitched camp with the opposition party. Ahmed gave the hint when he played host to stakeholders in Kwara central senatorial district on Thursday. Wahab Oba, chief press secretary to the governor, said the stakeholders have prevailed…

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Nigerians to complement the efforts of leaders in the country in their efforts to make it a better place. He spoke Thursday at the graduation ceremony of senior course 40 of Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State. “In Nigeria, there is the tendency to lay the blame of the state of affairs in the country on the doorsteps of the leaders alone. ”Yes, leaders have a major role to play in providing direction and the enabling environment. However, the citizens’ role also is vital in our attaining meaningful transformation of any society,” he said.…

The Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal and all members of the state House of Assembly, Thursday, left the All Progressives Congress (APC) and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The APC is being hit by a gale of defections which started from the National Assembly (NASS). A total of 62 members of the APC in the National Assembly defected to the PDP and ADC on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state dumped the APC for the PDP. Recall that in October 2014, Tambuwal who was then Speaker of the House of…

The House of Representatives Committee probing the status and management of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, Wedesday queried the lodgement of $4.9 million and N1.5 billion in an unnamed commercial bank without appropriate authorisation from the President. Consequently, the special committee summoned Ibrahim Usman Jibril, the Minister for Environment, to appear before it and explain why such an account should be maintained by his Ministry in the face of the government’s TSA policy. The committee members at the continued investigative hearing were appalled by the fact that the sum of N1.5bn was deposited in the bank since March 2017 and…