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The 59th edition of the annual Grammy awards held last night in Los Angeles, California with several stunning performances from the different acts. Pregnant Beyonce also brought the stage to its knees as she rendered a flawless performance of two of her songs. British singer, Adele, swept a total of five awards and made history as the first singer to win two Album and Song of the Year awards. However snapped her Album of the Year Award in two and gave the other half to Beyonce whom she regarded as an inspiration. Here the full list of winners at the music awards ceremony: Album of the year: “25,” Adele,  Record of the year: “Hello,” Adele,  Best new artist: Chance the Rapper,  Song of the year (songwriter’s award): “Hello,” Adele and Greg Kurstin,  Best pop solo performance: “Hello,” Adele,  Best pop vocal album: “25,” Adele,  Best traditional pop vocal album: “Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin,” Willie Nelson,  Best pop duo or gro...

The Former German Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has been elected as the nation’s 12th president. Steinmeier was backed his largely ceremonial post of president by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition. The election which took place in a secret ballot consist of 1,260-member Federal Convention, comprising lawmakers and leading community figures. The 61 years old will replace Joachim Gauck, a 77-year-old former East German pastor and human rights activist, who has been head of state for five years and his tenure will come to an end next month and proper handling over will be made. Regularly voted in opinion polls as the nation’s most popular politician, Mr. Steinmeier faced four other candidates in the election for the post. The newly president was elected to become the nation’s president by an overwhelming majority of a special constitutional assembly, despite the vote falling short of what had been expected. He was voted in by 931 voters out of the 1,...

Federal Government has recovered another $151 million and N8 billion ($26.32 million) looted funds from three sources through whistle-blowers. According to the Nigeria Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed statement issued on Sunday in Lagos. He said actionable information given by whistle-blowers to the Office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation led to the recovery of the looted fund. Mohammed said the looted funds not consist the $9.2 million in cash allegedly by a former Group Managing Director of the NNPC, also a dividend of the whistle-blower policy. “The biggest amount of $136.7 million was recovered from an account in a commercial bank, where the money was kept under an apparently fake account name. “This was followed by N7 billion and $15 million from another person and N1 billion from yet another,” he said. The minister reiterated the position of government that there was a primitive and mindless looting of the na...