Wizkid has won his second Soul Train Award award alongside Beyoncé, for their collaboration “Brown Skin Girl” of “The Lion King: The Gift” album. The award show took place on Sunday. The event which aired on BET saw Chris brown emerge top winner with 4 wins (including Best R&B/Soul male artist and Song of the Year) out of 12 categories, followed by H.E.R who won 2 awards (including Best R&B/Soul female artist). See the full list of winners below: Song of the Year: Chris Brown & Young Thug, “Go Crazy” Album of the Year: Summer Walker, Over It Video of…
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Men of the intelligence service, in collaboration with those of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday evening, arrested the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reforms Task Force, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, in one of the towns Niger Republic. PRNigeria reports that top intelligence officer disclosed that the arrest was facilitated by the an agreement between the two neighbouring countries. Recall that Maina is facing a 12-count charge for money laundering by the Commission, alleged that he laundered money to the tune of about N2 billion, part of which he used to acquire landed properties in Abuja. However, Maina…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has assured that the National Assembly is committed to greater women and youth involvement in public governance in Nigeria through creative legislative interventions. This comes as he decried women participation in public governance in Sub-Saharan Africa which is presently below 24.7 percent. Senator Omo-Agege stated this while making a virtual presentation at a high-level conference on strengthening women and youth participation in the National Assembly. According to him, no country can ever maximize its potential without fully exploring and exploiting the energy in its youth population, adding that “There is the…
Justice T. B. Adegoke of the Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State today November 30, 2020 sentenced Onus Osagie Amahian, a former staff of Access Bank, to five years imprisonment. Amahian was prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 25-count charge bordering on forgery and making false entry into Delta State Government payroll. A former IT officer of Access Bank , the defendant was said to have between August and October 2011 fraudulently inserted names and account numbers of his family members and friends into the payroll schedule of Delta State government being handled by Access…
Lawal Adamu Usman a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Kaduna State has condemned the killing of 110 Borno farmers and lamented what he called unacceptable level of insecurity across northern Nigeria. Adamu, fondly called Mr LA, said the recent attacks on civilians by the Boko Haram represents the high point in criminal activities that could lay the foundation of the collapse of the citadel of poor governance, indifference, insensitivity and unprecedented plunder of human lives that is the Buhari administration. Time has come he said, for northern elites and other groups to step up and close ranks and face the…
By Ahmed Attahir, Gusau The Victims Support Fund, VSF, Task Force committee on COVID-19 under the chairmanship of General TY Danjuma, has distributed palliatives, including foods and personal protective equipments, PPE, worth over N107.9 million in Zamfara state. Presenting the items to Governor Bello Mohammad in Gusau on Monday, the chairperson of the VSF, Mrs Toyesi Ogunsuji said the committee has already commenced the third face of distribution of palliatives in the North West and North Central. She disclosed that the food items are to be distributed to internally displaced persons, IDPs, and the most vulnerable communities. According to her,…
The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction Adam kaka Adam, a former banker, who was today sentenced to one year imprisonment by Justice Ibrahim Jauro of the Yobe State High Court sitting in Damaturu. The convict was prosecuted on one-count of theft to the tune of N11, 657,500.00. Adam, a former service manager in charge of Vault Room and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Unity Bank Plc. Damaturu Branch, Yobe State allegedly diverted the said sum which was mearnt to to fed to the ATM of the branch.The count reads: “That…
The Arewa Economic Advancement Campaign (AREA-C), has called on well-to-do northerners to “end the lamentations about the massive poverty ravaging the region by being more proactive in the fight against it in practice”. The group, in a terse media statement to newsmen in Kaduna, signed by its Director of Publicity, Nasir Dambatta said, “it is indeed worrisome that many entrepreneurs, seasoned bureaucrats and elected representatives seem too cool to care about the current levels of mass poverty in the North, while some of them merely seize the opportunity of public functions to advertise our woes”. AREA-C described as mind-boggling the…
The Speaker Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani has assured the Tsaunin Kura Residents Association (Sabo GRA) that roads in their community will be given priority. He gave the assurance, when President General of Sabo GRA, Comrade Silas Adamu led executives of the community on a visit to the Speaker at the Kaduna Assembly’ on Monday November 30, 2020. “Issue of road insha Allah will be over in Tsaunin Kura. We have enough allocation for roads in next year’s budget. “I will call KADRA and tell them Tsaunin Kura should be captured in the first quarter of 2021 projects,”…
Borno governor, Babagana Zulum has explained that the people of Borno state were in twofold difficult situation of threat by extreme hunger and insecurity. He said this during the funeral ceremony of the rice farmers killed by Boko Haram terrorists in Zabarmari local government area of the state on Sunday. “It is disheartening that more than 40 citizens were slaughtered while they were working in their farmlands. “First of all, accept my deepest sympathy over this carnage, once again, that affects all of us and every human with conscience. I am told some persons are still missing. We have been…