As Nigeria’s biggest music entertainment platform for digital streaming and downloads tooxclusive rounds up its annual online based awards, super record label YBNL team has again emerged winner of multiple wins.

Africa Sports of the Ivory Coast, Villa from Uganda and Al Ittihad of Libya are among the top African clubs featuring in the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup preliminary rounds this weekend.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, on Thursday, defended the Federal Government’s refusal to devalue the naira.

At least eight people drowned in northern Nigeria when a canoe ferrying traders capsized and panicked passengers in another boat jumped into the river, a government official said Thursday.

The Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd), has denied reports in some newspaper publications that the Amnesty office spent N48bn in five months. Boroh, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, made the clarification in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja.

Three University of Lagos Students were on Thursday charged before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly robbing their fellow students of N10, 500 cash and phones valued at N506, 000. They were, however, admitted to bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties each in like sum. The students — Micheal Onwuameze (27), Henry Ngene (22) and Adetayo Adekoya (25) – did not have their addresses stated.

Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State on Thursday said that over 42 per cent of teachers in Kaduna State were unqualified. El-Rufa’i stated this at the commissioning ceremony of a 1,500-seater capacity hall named after him at the Federal College of Education (FCE), Zaria, Kaduna State. The edifice was constructed by the college through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TEDFUND).

The Academic Board of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) on Thursday suspended academic activities and asked its students to go home for four weeks. This is contained in a statement signed by Mr Charles Oni, the Head of Public Relations Unit of the college, and made available tonewsmen in Lagos. Oni said that the move was to allow the management, staff and students mourn a student, Miss Comfort Dazan, who died on Wednesday.

The Kaduna State Government has sacked two senior education officials and suspended two others for diverting food meant for the feeding of primary school pupils. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Dr Shehu Adamu, said at a news briefing in Kaduna on Thursday, that the officials had circumvented laid down procedures of the government’s Schools Feeding Programme, which commenced in January.

The United States Embassy in Nigeria on Thursday, condemned the recent terrorists suicide attacks on the camp of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Dikwa community, Borno, in the North Eastern part of Nigeria.

The Yola Division of Federal Court of Appeal on Thursday declared the impeachment of former Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa as unconstitutional, null and void. Adamawa House of Assembly had on July 16, 2014, impeached and removed Nyako for gross misconduct.

CALABAR- FOUR Reverend Sisters of the Ogoja Catholic Archdiocese were killed while two were taken unconscious when the car they were travelling had a head-on collision with a truck along the Ogoja – Ikom highway on Wednesday. The sisters according to a source at the Ogoja Catholic Archdiocese were travelling to Uyo in Akwa Ibom State for a church programme in preparation for the 2016 Easter when they met their tragic death at Alok, some few kilometres away from the Mbok Junction, in Ogoja local government area.

KADUNA – Political Science Lecturer with Kaduna State University, KASU, Dr. John Danfulani, who has been suspended by the school, and also sued by Kaduna State government over an alleged inciting face book comment , has dragged KASU to the National Industrial Court in Kaduna. Also, a Press Statement signed by Danfulani in Kaduna yesterday, thanked those who stood by him during what he said were his ordeal and posited that no one could gag him against opposing bad governance.

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The Supreme Court has upheld the outcome of the April 11, 2015, governorship election that produced Governor Darius Ishaku of the People Democratic Party, PDP.