Nine A-list African artists have bagged nominations for this year’s BET Awards, according to the list of nominees released on Thursday. The artists are Nigeria’s Burna Boy, Asake, Tems, Wizkid and Ayra Starr; Libianca from Cameroon; Camidoh from Ghana; and Ko and Pabi Cooper from South Africa. Burna Boy, Ayra Starr and Ko were nominated for the “Best International Act” category alongside Aya Nakamura (France), Central Cee (UK), Ella Mai (UK), L7nnon (Brazil), Stormzy (UK),...

It was a day of glowing tribute and eulogies as Anambra State 7th House of Assembly draws its curtains after its final plenary session on Thursday. The session which started at about 11am with a Church service presided over by Rev. Raphael Onyekwelu of Government House Chaplaincy and other priests, was immediately followed by plenary at the legislative chambers. The plenary commencement time was a bit disrupted by attempted abduction of Nnewi North House Member-Elect,...

Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State on Thursday, met with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, and sought the release of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Mbah, while addressing journalists after the meeting  noted that his discussion with the President was in agreement with the demand by the South-East, which according to him is in tandem with Tinubu’s promise in his inaugural address to engender national healing...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday at the State House, Abuja, performed his maiden act of assenting a bill to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) (No.37), 2023 presented by the outgoing 9th National Assembly. With the signing of the Constitutional Amendment Bill, all judicial officers of superior courts of record will now retire from service at 70 instead of 65 and pension rights of judicial officers have been effectively...

Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo was conspicuously missing on Wednesday, when President Bola Tinubu met with Nigerian governors. Not even his deputy, Dr Onyeka Ibezim was at the meeting to represent his principal, fuelling argument that Soludo’s claims of wanting to connect Anambra to the centre, may be lacking action. President Tinubu in his first meeting with Governors of the 36 States of the Federation known as the Nigeria Governors’Forum (NGF) at the Presidential...

The detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has stated that his pursuit of self-determination is not negotiable. Kanu who spoke from the DSS detention facility in Abuja, announced this on Tuesday in a tweet posted by his legal counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, in which he also greeted Biafran supporters for their solidarity. Tagged ‘Personal Message from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’, the tweet reads “I deeply appreciate the abiding solidarity of the people...

State governors, yesterday, backed President Bola Tinubu’s decision to end petrol subsidy, promising to work with him to ameliorate the short-term impact of the decision. The governors, under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, expressed their strong support for the removal of the petrol subsidy at a meeting with the President at the State House. The meeting, which was attended by Vice-President Kashim Shettima and new Secretary to the Government of the Federation,...