Burna Boy, Davido make 2024 Grammys nominees list

The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2024 Grammys on Friday. Burna Boy leads the pack of Nigerian artists set to compete for the top prizes with four nominations. Close behind is Davido, who is getting his first-ever Grammy nomination, with three nominations. Burna Boy and Davido are both up for the ‘Best Global Music Performance’, ‘Best African Music Performance’ and ‘Best Global Music Album’ categories. Burna Boy’s and Davido’s latest albums, ‘I Told...

APBN Holds Professional Summit To Tackle Challenges In Health Sector

The ongoing issues of rivalry, leadership positions, and unequal remuneration among healthcare professionals in Nigeria have been recognized as major factors contributing to the dysfunctionality of the healthcare system. In response to these challenges, the Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN), Anambra State Chapter, today organized the 2023 Professional Summit The summit aimed to address these issues and promote collaboration in the healthcare sector. The event, with the theme “Professional Synergy in Healthcare Provision;...

Irish chef Alan Fisher breaks Hilda Baci’s record, becomes GWR title holder

Irish chef Alan Fisher has unseated Nigeria’s Hilda Effiong Bassey as the world record holder for the longest cooking marathon, the Guinness World Records, GWR, said Tuesday. Fisher cooked for 119 hours 57 minutes to break the 93 hours 11 minutes record set in May by Bassey, who is known on social media as Hilda Baci. Nigerian cooking queen Hilda Baci has been dethroned 😳 Alan Fisher from Ireland cooked for an incredible 119 hours...

Nigerian leaders Urged To  allow God Guide their Decisions

Nigerian leaders have been enjoined to put God first and allow Him to guide their decisions. Pastor Joseph Akinade of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Eagle’s Wings Assembly, Ibadan, who gave the charge on Saturday in Ibadan during the church’s fourth anniversary, noted that a nation that neglects God in decision-making would face hunger and other challenges. “This is because God remains the only sure provider. “Nigerians are complaining about the depreciation of their Naira against...

Rwanda waives visa for African visitors

Rwandan President Paul Kagame announced on Thursday that Africans will no longer need a visa to travel to the Central African country. “Any African can get on a plane to Rwanda whenever they wish and they will not pay a thing to enter our country,” said Kagame at the 23rd Global Summit of the World Travel and Tourism Council in Kigali. “We should not lose sight of our own continental market,” the 66-year-old President said...

Jigawa State Government Spends N500m Public Latrines

Alhaji Ibrahim Hannungiwa, Jigawa state Commissioner for Water Resources says the government has spent N500 million on the provision of improved latrines in schools, hospitals, markets, and motor parks across the state. Hannungiwa disclosed this in Dutse, the state capital, and said the measure is geared towards surpassing the nation’s ODF target by 2025 by ensuring the sustainability of its leading position as an ‘Open Defecation Free’ state. He said the UN Agency appointed the...

First Lady hails Supreme Court’s judgment as the “Lord’s doing”

The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu has welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the election of President Bola Tinubu, her husband, saying it is the “Lord’s doing.” Pilot Need reports that the Supreme Court, last Thursday, aligned with the presidential election petition tribunal and affirmed Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election in February At a Tuesday political rally in Imo State, the First Lady told a mammoth crowd of the ruling All...

Kano State Hisbah Arrests Eight Suspected Drags

Eight suspected drags (cross-dressers) have been arrested by Kano State Hisbah during a wedding ceremony at Kofar Waika, Gwale Local Government Area of the State. Kano state Hisbah Board was established in 2000 with a mandate of ensuring what is Right and forbidding what is wrong with every Muslim. Dr Mujaheed Abubakar, Deputy Commander-General Hisbah who disclosed this to newsmen in Kano, said the suspects were arrested following a tip-off by good Samaritans that young...

Tony-Oneweek Set to Take Awka by a Storm

The gyration sensation, Tony-Oneweek, who 25 years ago took the then emerging ‘new Nigerian music industry’ by surprise with his set of gyration tunes that went on to dominate the market for years, is set for a comeback. Tony’s “Onwa December,” became the symbol of Christmas season festivities, for so many years. The release of his “You go bow” album in 1998, almost immediately conferred on Tony the status of an icon of a unique...

Aka Ikenga nourns Prof. Ben Nwabueze

Igbo Think Tank, Aka Ikenga mourns the passing away of a pre-eminent nationalist and doyen Nigerian Constitutionalism, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, aka, the Oracle of Law, who passed to eternity on November 29, 2023 as announced by the family spokesperson, Eni Nwabueze. A press statement jointly signed by Collins Steve Ugwu, Publicity Secretary and Agbalanze Chike Madueke, President Aka Ikenga, read, “We are pained at the denial of this pearl of knowledge to Nigeria, and indeed...

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