Drake’s Scorpion album breaks streaming records

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Drake has smashed streaming records with his new album “Scorpion,” with Apple Music and Spotify both reporting unprecedented listenership in its first day in 92 countries. Apple Music said on Instagram that the Canadian hip-hop superstar’s fifth studio album was streamed 170 million times in the 24 hours since its release Friday. https://instagram.com/p/BkqLNSNAugV/?utm_source=ig_embed https://instagram.com/p/Bkn2OITAAa7/?utm_source=ig_embed The worldwide figure is the highest ever reported by any streaming service for an album over one day and comes even though Apple Music significantly trails industry leader Spotify in total users. Drake has a lengthy…

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Wizkid booked for 3 years

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Nigerian pop singer and songwriter Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has been booked for shows for the next three years. The ‘Soco’ crooner made the announcement on his Twitter handle @wizkidayo, where he wrote, “booked for three years”. Wizkid has released several hit tracks this year including ‘Soco’, ‘Fake Love’, ‘Manya’ and ‘Nowo’. ‘Soco’, in which he featured Ceeza Mili, Spotless and Terri, is a fast-paced Afro-beat tune that has grown to become the most favourite song for the ‘Shaku Shaku’ dance. In February 2014, Wizkid became the first…

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Kukah: Nigeria’s Elusive Quest for National Cohesion

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Text of the Convocation Lecture delivered  by Rev Dr Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese at the University of Jos Multipurpose Auditorium, 22 June 2018. The full title was:Broken Truths: Nigeria’s Elusive Quest for National Cohesion Introduction: The Truth of our Nigerian Story? Let me start with a conceptual clarification regarding the title and topic of this lecture. Not unexpectedly, my first reaction is to ask what is a broken truth? What does an unbroken truth look like? When we speak of truth, we immediately recall the trial…

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INEC not aware of vacancies in NASS

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The Independent National Election (INEC) said it was awaiting formal communication on the existing vacancies in the National Assembly (NASS). INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu disclosed this during an interaction with political editors of media organisations on Saturday in Lagos. Yakubu said that the commission had five bye-elections to conduct, to fill the existing vacancies, but it was still awaiting official communication from the National Assembly to declare the seats vacant. He said while the law compelled INEC to conduct bye-elections within stipulated time, it was the presiding officers of the…

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I can make Shekau surrender: Goni, ex-Boko Haram commander

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A 32 year-old former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni, has appealed to the Nigerian military authorities to allow him make a phone call to the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau and at least 137 other terrorists to make them surrender. Goni, who is undergoing rehabilitation at a military detention camp in Maiduguri, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The former Boko Haram commander is an indigene of Bama in Borno state. He surrendered to the military in Cameroon after escaping from Sambisa Forest eight months…

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Macron to visit Fela’s Afrika Shrine Tuesday

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French leader Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday visit the Afrika Shrine, a nightclub in Lagos founded by Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Macron will  become the first “real president” to enter the club synonymous with marijuana smoke, sexy backup dancers and protest music. And he is not a stranger to Nigeria. He trained as a senior civil servant at the French Embassy in Lagos in 2004, seven years after Fela died. Late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, afrobeat king The  Afrika Shrine located in the teeming Lagos district of Ikeja replaced…

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Councillor donates writing materials to 3 school in Patani, frowns at staff negligence of duties

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From Grandball Joel The councilor representing Uduophori Ward 15, at Patani Local Government Council, Hon. Oghenevwegba Okoro has described the continuous absence of Ege Primary school staff as worrisome in community. Speaking while distributing education materials worth thousands of naira to pupils of Ege primary school 1/2 and New Bethel school, Okoro said, “the staff of Ege primary school 1, should turn a new leave towards by ensuring that they are in school to teach the future leaders of the nation. “Staff of the school should know that the future of…

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Fred: Nemanja Matic will be ‘great teammate’

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Brazil midfielder Fred thanked Manchester United teammate Nemanja Matic for welcoming to the club after the Selecao’s 2-0 World Cup victory over Serbia on Wednesday and reckoned the towering midfielder will be a “great teammate” once the two join forces at Old Trafford next season. Fred, 25, signed a five-year contract with the Premier League club after moving from Shakhtar Donetsk for a reported fee of €55 million last week. The Brazil reserve has yet to feature at this summer’s World Cup. However, he found time to exchange shirts and…

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Federal government launches HIV/AIDS indicator, impact survey

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The Federal Government, on Thursday, launched the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS), which, they believe, would end the era of ‘guess work’ in terms of the burden of HIV disease in Nigeria. The survey would be conducted by experts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the United States of America, in at least 170, 000 households in Nigeria and would be supervised by the Federal Ministry of Health and National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA). It would, undoubtedly, bequeath NACA and other stakeholders with good…

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Plateau killings: Attacks targeting civilians violate global humanitarian law – UN

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The UN on Friday voiced concerns over the violent conflicts between herdsmen and farmers in West and Central Africa, with particular mention of the recent killings in Plateau, Nigeria, saying they contravened global humanitarian law. It, therefore, called for deliberate action to end the conflicts. In a statement by its spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, the UN expressed regret over the killings, saying: “more than 80 people in central Nigeria were killed in land disputes between the two sides this week. “The Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, stresses that all attacks targeting civilians violated…

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