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Singer Tems bags two nomination for 2023 Grammys Nigerian music sensation, Tems has been nominated for the Grammy Awards in 2023. The 27-year-old singer and songwriter bagged two nominations in the Best Melodic Rap Performance and Best Rap Song categories. Her nominations are from her successful collaboration with American rapper Future on the song ‘Wait For You’, also featuring Drake. More photos below. 

PRESIDENT BUHARI MAKES CASE FOR TINUBU-SHETTIMA ASCENSION TO THE PRESIDENCY   President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday joined capacity crowd at the Jos township stadium in endorsing the Tinubu-Shettima ticket, the flag bearers of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the 2023 presidential contest, urging party members to march to deliver the candidates now that the party has decided.   But the President at a visit to the Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Gyang Buba reiterated his earlier commitment to ensuring that every vote counts. “No election winner will be denied his mandate, irrespective of the party to which they belonged,” apparently in response to the Campaign Director-General, Governor Simon Lalong who announced the intention to recreate the SDP-Moshood Abiola historic victory in 2003 in a campaign that took off in the same city 3o years ago. That election victory was annulled by the military.   In handing the APC flag to the candidate at the tumultuous occasion, President Bu...

Why Some BDC Operators were Arrested- EFCC The recent arrest of some Bureau De Change operators across the country especially in Lagos and Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was incidental to the Commission's overall efforts in sanitizing the foreign exchange sector. The Commission’s Director of Operations, Abdulkarim Chukkol stated this on Monday, November 14, 2022, while fielding questions on Good Morning Nigeria, a breakfast programme on the Network Service of the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA. Chukkol who represented the Executive Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, was among eminent personalities invited to discuss the topic ‘’Sanitizing Ungoverned Operators in the Forex Sector”. According to him, EFCC’s arrest of BDC operators and currency speculators in the parallel market was not indiscriminate but a product of intelligence. “At EFCC, we work with intelligence and with other stakeholders; and when we talk of illegal forex operators you cannot just inv...

$9.6bn P&ID Fraud : Court Issues Bench Warrant on  Nolan Justice D U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday,   November 15, 2022, issued a bench warrant on  James Richard Nolan, a Briton,  for jumping bail and failing to appear before him for trial. Nolan, one of the directors of Goidel Resources Limited, a Designated Non-Financial Institution, DNFI,   and another company,   ICIL Limited, are standing trial on 16- count charges bordering on money laundering. On the last adjourned date, counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  G.C Ofulue, sought  a bench  warrant  on the defendant, but the judge decided to give the defence more time to produce him  on the next adjourned date. At the resumed  trial on Tuesday,  defence counsel,  Michael Ajara,  told the court that his team was on the trail of the defendant, prompting the prosecution counsel to again request t...

I HAD TO PAY N25,200 - BENUE MAN LAMENTS BITTERLY AFTER GUESTS STOLE CHAIRS HE HIRED FOR HIS MOTHER'S BURIAL A young Nigerian man, identified as Udam Samuel Aseer, has taken to social media to lament bitterly after some of the chairs he rented for his mother’s burial were stolen by some guests. The Benue-based man said he had to pay an extra fee of N25,200 after seven of the chairs he rented were stolen at the venue of the event, which was held on Saturday, November 12, 2022. “You attended My Mum’s burial & stole 7 Chairs I hired, leaving me to pay 25,200 (3,600 each)” he wrote on Monday. I have been in the village since yesterday over this & no solution. I had to pay as one of the terms & conditions given by chairs owners as agreed,” the disgruntled man wrote. Credit: btlsblog

BSCVG: ANOTHER TWO ARRESTED AT WURUKUM WITH GUNS FOR SNATCHING A MOBILE PHONE FROM A TRAVELER The Benue State Community Volunteer Guards (BSCVG) special team has in the early hours of today  again arrested two suspected criminals with two locally made pistols at Yaman Park, Wurukum, Makurdi for snatching mobile phones and money from travelers. The suspects who gave their names as Ugba Terese,  popularly known as (Big Sharp) of St Augustine Church Demekpe, Makurdi, and Orjime Ahamgba Kanyima of behind Navy Barracks Kanshio, Makurdi. When quizzed, both suspects admitted snatching a phone from a traveler who alighted from Kano last night, as well as collecting Twelve Thousand Naira (N12,000) from another traveler last week at gun point. They explained that they normally convince travelers with tricks who eventually become their victims. In their words "I begged him to let me make a call with his phone and he obliged. Then, my friend followed him with slaps  in the face. Out ...

A student has become Miss America's first ever transgender contestant to win a local pageant - prompting critics to accuse the 'woke' competition of 'allowing opportunities to be stolen away from female contestants'. Earlier this month, Brían Nguyen, 19, made Miss America history when she became the first transgender woman to win the Miss Greater Derry title. The Miss Greater Derry Scholarship Program, set up by the Miss America Organisation, welcomes contestants between the ages of 17 and 24 who are judged on their 'their achievements in scholastic, aptitude, talent, character, community service and poise', according to their website. In April, the business management student will compete against other local title holders to become Miss New Hampshire 2023. The winner of the state round will then proceed to participate in the wider Miss America pageant later in the year. However, Miss Great Britain 1998 winner Leilani Dowding said she was disappointed to see...

BAUCHI STATE COMMAND GETS NEW COMMISSIONER OF POLICE. The Bauchi State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that, a new Commissioner of Police in person of CP Aminu Alhassan has been posted to the State and has assumed duty today Tuesday 15th November, 2022. CP Alhassan had taken over from CP Umar Mamman Sanda fdc, psc, mnim who is now the CP X-Squad Force Criminal Intelligence Dept Lagos Annex. The officer with exceptional dexterity, CP Aminu Alhassan was born in Indabawa Quarters on 8th June 1963 in the heart of Kano City. A graduate of the University of Sokoto and University of Benin, CP Aminu Alhassan comes with vast experience in policing, investigation and prosecution.  The CP being a man of focus, undefeated determination, passion, dedication to duty, sheer will and an unchallenged high level of patriotism has made several achievements which helped in making policing easier. He started his career as a Cadet ASP in Police Academy Annex Kaduna. He  Patrol an...

10 Passengers Perish In Kaduna - Abuja Road Auto Crash A horrifying accident on the Kaduna-Abuja road has claimed the lives of ten people, among them a doctor. A Golf automobile leaving Abuja at roughly 10 a.m. on Monday was involved in the accident.  The accident took place close to Oma Gas Industry. The driver of the vehicle lost steering control, killing 10 passengers. An eyewitness, Mallam Usman Kasai, reported that the driver was speeding when he lost control and slammed the culvert. Officials from Road Safety and KADVIS evacuated the victims' remains and deposited them at St. Gerald Hospital.  

Balance the Workforce for Higher Productivity – ICPC urges FG The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, OFR, has called on the Federal Government to re-balance the workforce in order to realize a compensation system that is fair and aligns with productivity. He made the call at the opening ceremony of a 2-day National Policy Forum on Compensation Management in Nigeria under the auspices of the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) in collaboration with the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation (FES) held in Abuja recently. Prof. Owasanoye said there was need for fair compensation, collective bargaining while canvassing for productivity as “what has not been produced cannot be shared.” He noted regrettably that the workforce especially the public sector was misaligned, and groaning under the scourge of fake employment, gho...

2023 Election- Peter Obi Replies Governor Soludo Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo’s comments on Monday that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, cannot win and will not win the 2023 election have been responded to. Anambra Current News reports that Peter Obi said the attacks on him by the politicians from particularly the South East show that he is out to be president of the whole country and not a regional president. Recall that Soludo, in a statement on Monday, wrote, “Peter Obi knows that he can’t and won’t win. He knows the game he is playing, and we know too, and he knows that we know….The brutal truth…is that there are two persons/parties seriously contesting for president: the rest is exciting drama!” Special Adviser to Peter Obi on public affairs, Katch Ononuju said the statement and attacks by Soludo will not and cannot dent the Labour Party presidential candidate image and popularity which the Nigerian youths have given to him. Ononuju said the attacks by Sout...

PRESS RELEASE LAGOS/IBADAN EXPRESSWAY: IGP TAKES BRIEFS FROM CP’s, SAYS WE ARE NOT INSENSITIVE TO SECURITY CHALLENGES ALONG THE EXPRESSWAY Promises Operational Support to Concerned States Consequent upon the briefs of the security situation on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway from the Commissioners of Police in charge of Lagos, Ogun, and Oyo State Commands, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, NEAPS, fdc, CFR, has ordered an immediate restructuring of the security architecture on the expressway to provide adequate deployment of officers and assets to ensure the protection of lives and property along the expressway and forestall kidnappings and other ugly incidents thereon. The IGP similarly emphasized that the Police Authority is not insensitive to the prevailing security challenges on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, but has rather been engaged with charting a path towards decimating the security issue and strategically eliminating the threats along the expressw...