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The first African American  to have served as United State president  Barack Obama praise Jay Z as a kindred spirit and inspiration as the hip-hop mogul became the first rapper to enter the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday. The elite club also welcomed Motown records’ pathbreaking founder Berry Gordy and Swedish hitmaker Max Martin at its annual induction.  An evening of performances by top stars that, like songwriters, stayed decidedly lower-key than televised award galas. Obama made a surprise appearance by video to present the honor to Jay Z, who grew up as Sean Carter in a troubled housing project in Brooklyn and has gone on to become one of music’s wealthiest entrepreneurs. “I like to think Mr Carter and I understand each other. Nobody who met us as younger men would have expected us to be where we are today,” Obama said of the rapper, who with his wife Beyonce actively campaigned for the first African-American president. Obama said he relate...

The Trump administration promulgate that it is Scrapping an Obama-era policy to allow millions of illegal-immigrant parents of children born in the United States to stay in the country on Thursday. 2014 policy, which also known as

The Former Chelsea player and Ivory Coast International superstar, Didier Drogba has hailed Nigeria’s Hip-Pop star, Davido for donating a house to a fan. Drogba, two-time African Footballer of the year described Davido’s kind gesture as “class act”. He made the comment while replying to a tweet by the musician. Davido embarked on building a decent house for the mother of Utibe, a young boy who arrested Davido’s attention when he was featured singing the musician’s hit song, ‘If.’ Utibe had been out of school and only passed the time miming songs. A concerned neighbour had taken a liking to the boy, and uploaded him singing the musician’s song on the Instagram. Davido became interested, and upon learning that the young boy was unable to enroll in school for lack of money, offered to sponsor him to the highest level of education the boy might wish to attain.

A 19- year-old teenager, who identified as Mojeed Sanusi, allegedly attempted to kill a man by hacking him with a machete, is facing trial

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said 62,140 candidates will reseat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME after their centres were found to have engaged in malpractices. JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, who announce this on Wednesday at a briefing, noted that a total of 59,698 UTME results were also cancelled by the board based on examination malpractices. A breakdown of the cancelled results showed that 57,646 candidates wrote in centres, which were fraudulent; 1,386 candidates were caught cheating, while 666 candidates did multiple registrations It was learnt that only the first group of 57,646 would be allowed to rewrite the UTME. This group would be joined by 3,811 candidates, who did late registration and 683 who had biometric-related issues, to make a total of 62,140 candidates. According to Oloyede the board had slated Saturday, July 1, for the examination. He said, “The board had a meeting with the 37 chief external examiners for the 2...

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, okayed request by the Federal Government to shield identities of 14 witnesses billed to testify against detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd.  The court, in a ruling that was delivered by trial Justice Ahmed Mohammed, granted leave for all the prosecution witnesses to give their evidence behind screen.  Justice Mohammed anchored the ruling on section 232 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, 2015, which he said permits the use of screen in the prosecution of cases involving economic crime. He noted that one of the charges FG levelled against Dasuki before the court borders on money laundering.  Dasuki who served as the NSA under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, is facing four-count charge bordering on money laundering and his alleged illegal possession of firearms. FG had in the charge before the court, alleged that Dasuki was on July 17, 2015, at his house situ...

The Minister of Works, Power and Housing Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) advocate the whistle blowing policy to retrenching embezzlement in the country  Fashola made the recommendation at 6th Meeting of Operators of Power Sector held at Ugwuaji   330/132 KVA Transmission Sub- Station, Enugu. The Minister noted that energy theft was not only criminal but an act of economic sabotage inimical to the power industry. He said he doubted   the assumption that  only about six million households were currently making use of power in the country, saying he believed that more households were consuming energy, secretly. He was of the view that it was the trend that gave room to estimated over- billing of non metre owners. He therefore reiterated his call on the good citizens of the country to report illegal users of power, to enable the power sector move forward. The Minister, however, warned against disconnection of pre-paid meters, saying he had been...