The nominees list for Nigeria Music Video Awards (NMVA) 2010 was released earlier this week and it shows a fair distribution of nominations spread across 24 categories.

It began with a cocktail-mixing contest between renown bartenders . In 2008, it evolved to a battle among some of the country’s finest DJs, and in 2009, it advanced to a live music contest between five of Nigeria’s fastest rising urban music artistes.

For the first time since their emergence on the music scene, King Sunny Ade and his acclaimed Juju music rival, Evangelist Ebenezer have revealed how they fooled their numerous fans into believing that they were sworn enemies.

There were indications at the weekend that federal government has concluded plans to acquire 4 new aircraft for the Presidential fleet at a cost of about $200million to replace aging aircraft in the fleet whose maintenance cost as a result of old age, with some of them having spent 22years, is gulping huge foreign exchange annually.

The Court of Appeal, Ibadan, has shifted backward the final addresses by parties in the Osun State Governorship Election to November 1, 2010.

GOVERNOR Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State yesterday admitted that things were no longer rosy for the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] in the South West saying that members of the party would have to be careful to prevent the total annihilation of the party in the area.

FORMER President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday shunned newsmen who surrounded him to know his reaction to the loss of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State.

ONDO State government yesterday took a swipe at the kidnappers of the 80-year-old mother of a Commissioner in the state, Madam Pege Esther Tewe and her 12-year-old grand daughter Rachael Lawrence, describing them as heartless and wicked.

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), the pan African banking group with operations in 19 African countries, as well as presence in New York, London and Paris, released its Q3 2010 financial results, underlining its strong operating performance and inherent resilience in a challenging environment.

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, has dared the new governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to go ahead with his threat to probe the immediate past administration led by Engr. Segun Oni, saying the planned probe was aimed at blindfolding the people from monitoring the programmes of the new government.

Former minister of Information, and Ijaw Leader Edwin Clark, has said that Mallam Adamu Ciroma’s utterances on the recent October 1, Abuja Bomb blast are provocative, adding that he has converted a major national calamity into political comedy.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, passed for the second reading, a bill seeking to amend the altered 1999 Constitution to accommodate the demand by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to move the date of the 2011 General election from January to March 2011 The Reps also condemned a comment by Senator Ayo Arise in which he admonished the Senate “not to behave so unruly like the House of Representatives”

FORMER Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, presidential aspirant, Professor Pat Utomi and National Coordinator of Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms, CODER, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, yesterday, joined other Nigerians in commending the Senate for rejecting a proposal for the amendment of the 2010 Electoral Act sent to the National Assembly by President Goodluck Jonathan.

So, for any new provision to be included, the National Assembly has to go through the process of another amendment as it is currently doing. Since a legal process of amendment has taken place, you cannot breach that process by adopting the 1999 Constitution.

The Code of Conduct Bureau has called on public servants who are yet to declare their assets to do so immediately to avoid the risk of facing the full weight of the laws of the land.