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Africa Magic, in association with MultiChoice, recently unveiled the list of nominees for the eighth edition of its premium awards that included a new category, Best Online Social Content Creator. The inclusion according to the organizers is in recognition of the growing popularity and quality of social media content across the continent. Nominees in the category include Mr. Macaroni for Multi Personality Disorder, Tee Kuro for Nollywood epic Love Story 1& 2 (parody), Bukunmi Adeaga-Ilori for Kayamata, and Oga Sabinus for Mr. Funny. Other nominees are Taaooma for Road Rage, Jacqueline Suowari for Of Line and Layers, Edem Victor for…

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has described as despicable the attack on the chairman of the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), Mr Lanre Suraju, and his family. Mr Suraju is a civil society advocate in the extractive industry. The Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, expressed shock at the unfortunate development where the lives of Suraju and his family were seriously at risk. “I received the news of the attack on Mr Suraju and his family at their home with the utmost sadness and disappointment and wish to condemn the…

Manchester United target and Switzerland defender Manuel Akanji, 26, wants to leave Borussia Dortmund and is considering a move to the Premier League. (Sport1) Barcelona are unwilling to meet Antonio Rudiger’s initial financial demands but will have another meeting with the Germany defender, 29, over a free transfer from Chelsea this summer. (Sport – in Spanish) Barcelona want to agree a contract extension for Ronald Araujo, who has received an offer from Manchester United, but the Uruguay centre-back, 23, has not taken kindly to Barca’s pursuit of Rudiger and Chelsea’s Denmark 25-year-old defender Andreas Christensen. (Sport – in Spanish) Aston…

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed safety of 14 more passengers on board the attacked Abuja-Kaduna train of March 28, bringing the total safe passengers to 186. The NRC’s Managing Director, Mr Fidet Okhiria, confirmed this in a statement he issued on Sunday. ”The statement is aimed at updating Nigerians on the on-going development regarding the clearing of the incident site (recovery of the rolling stock, repairs of the track) and status of Passengers that were on-board the AK9 train of Monday, March 28. ”Of the 362 validated passengers on board the attacked AK9 train service on March 28,…

Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic and jazz musician Jon Batiste have shared the top honours at the 64th Grammy Awards. Batiste’s uplifting soul record We Are won album of the year, while Rodrigo won best new artist and best pop album. Silk Sonic’s soul throwback anthem Leave The Door Open took home both the record and song of the year prizes. Apart from the awards, the ceremony saw a tribute to Foo Fighters star Taylor Hawkins, and a video plea from Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. In a pre-taped message, he urged musicians to “fill the silence” left by Russian bombs “with…

In October 2021, Donald Trump announced he was planning to launch a revolutionary technology company. “I created Truth Social… to stand up to the tyranny of big tech,” he said. “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter yet your favourite American president has been silenced.” The app launched on Presidents’ Day, 21 February, but six weeks later is beset by problems. A waiting list of nearly 1.5 million are unable to use it. Number 1,419,631 Truth Social looks a lot like Twitter, a platform that banned Mr Trump after a mob of his…

The producer of the Oscars has said he prevented Will Smith from being “physically removed” from the ceremony because “Chris Rock did not want that”. Will Packer said he had been told the bosses of the organising academy had planned to have the actor ejected after he slapped the comedian on stage. “I had not been a part of those conversations,” Packer said. “So, I immediately went to the Academy leadership that was on site and I said, ‘Chris Rock doesn’t want that’.” Packer told ABC’s Good Morning America, in his first interview since the incident, that he had he…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the party is prepared to take over power in Enugu and other southeast states in 2023. The newly elected APC Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, stated this on Sunday in Enugu when the party faithful received him at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport. Eneukwu, who addressed the crowd noted that APC would win governorship elections in the entire state of the South East. He added that winning the governorship of Enugu was more important to the party because of its strategic position as the political capital of the region.…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized no less than 9.5 million tablets of Tramadol and Exol 5 worth over N5 billion in three states. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the Pharmaceutical Opioids were seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT) Abuja and Edo state respectively. He said that the operation was carried out in collaboration with the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). “Of the figure, 214 cartons of Tramadol 225 under 10…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to security chiefs to apprehend or neutralise all terrorists responsible for the Monday night’s train terror attack on Kaduna-bound train, during the week under review, has started yielding fruitful results. Buhari gave the directive on March 29 when he summoned the security chiefs to the Presidential Villa, following the attack on the ill-fated train. NAN reliably gathered that no fewer than 86 of the bandits were reported killed by a combined team of police and soldiers at various bandit-infected enclaves in Kaduna, Zamfara and Niger States after the attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train on Monday. The…