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Update:: The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has criticised President Buhari for refusing to sign the Electoral Bill into law. Buhari, in a letter to the National Assembly on Thursday, December 6, 2018, declined assent to the bill. Among other reasons, the President said: "I am declining assent to the Bill principally because I am concerned that passing a new electoral bill this far into the electoral process for the 2019 general election which commenced under the 2015 Electoral Act, could create some uncertainty about the applicable legislation to govern the process.” In a statement on Twitter, the PDP presidential candidate said Buhari’s refusal to sign the electoral bill into law shows his assurances for a freeand fair election cannot be taken seriously. “Mr President, assurances that your administration will conduct a free, fair and credible elections can not be taken seriously. For Nigerians and es...

Update:: Nigerian pop singer and song writer, Reekado Banks has announced his exit from the record he started from, Mavin Records to pursue bigger opportunities. This announcement was made on social media by the Blessings artiste where he stated that although it is painful to leave the family that made him who he has become in the past five years, it is imperative he takes this action for the sake of his growth despite his love for the records.  He said; ''Today I write in tears, not from a place of of pain, but of joy and gratitude. A place of bliss and satisfaction because I am more than contented with how far this opportunity has brought me. The last five years have been the most blissful years of my career, The journey has been extremely wonderful and filled with the best experiences... Joing the mavin records family was the best thing to have happend to me in the last decade. Don Jazzy took me in and treated me like his own son. I'll be e...

Update::THE national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC has set machinery in place to whip Governors Ibikunle Amosun and Rochas Okorocha in line towards advancing the interests of the party in the governorship elections in Ogun and Imo States respectively. Over 10 thousand fans turned up for Orezi concert Besides, the two governors who have sworn not to support the APC governorship candidates in their two states, the party, Saturday Vanguard gathered, is also putting focus on at least two ministers, Adebayo Shittu and Solomon Dalung, and also on the director general of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu. Amsoun and Okorocha were peeved by the decision of the national leadership to enthrone persons opposed by them as the APC governorship candidates in their two states. Both men have sworn to support their favoured candidates in alternative platforms but at the same time also support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid on the basis of what the...

Update:: Comedian, Akpororo took a swipe at Daddy Freeze over his constant attack on Tithing.  Akpororo slammed Freeze during his performance at #TheExperience13, a Christian musical concert which took place in Lagos yesterday December 7th. During his performance, Akpororo said if he was a pastor, he would have an annoying annoiting that can turn people like Daddy Freeze into a wall gecko so he would stop talking and become harmless. Click here to watch the video

Update:: Why NYSC cancelled Davido’s service year has been revealed, just after report of their fallout went viral across social media platforms. Top sources in the NYSC who spoke to a Punch correspondent, disclosed that management of NYSC cancelled Davido’s service year for “absconding” from the camp during the orientation camp and this reportedly brought to an end his participation in the 2018 Batch ‘B’ Stream II in Lagos State, where he had been posted. The source said The NYSC was constrained to “dekit” Davido for violating the rules guiding conduct and activities in the camp. As a matter of fact, he absconded because he was away from the camp without permission. That prompted the Corps to issue him a query which was sent from Abuja. So, he is no longer a serving corps member.” It was also gathered that Davido violated many of the scheme’s regulations which include; bringing vehicles into the orientation camp; disclosing of...

Update:: Late rapper Mac Miller has received a posthumous Grammy nomination, having gotten a nod for Swimming in the Best Rap Album section. It is his first Grammy Award nomination. The fifth studio album from Miller, Swimming was released on 3 August – just over a month before he was found dead at his home outside Los Angeles at the age of 26. Shortly after his death, former girlfriend Ariana Grande shared a short video of the two together on her Instagram page, writing: “I adored you from the day I met you when I was nineteen and I always will. I can’t believe you aren’t here anymore. I really can’t wrap my head around it. We talked about this. So many times. “I’m so mad, I’m so sad I don’t know what to do. You were my dearest friend. For so long. “Above anything else. I’m so sorry I couldn’t fix or take your pain away. I really wanted to. The kindest, sweetest soul with demons he never deserved. “I hope you’re okay now. Rest.” Many other famous faces paid tr...

Update:: The 2019 GRAMMY nominations are here -- and one of rap's biggest names didn't make the list. While Cardi B scored five nods -- including major nominations in the Record of the Year and Album of the Year categories -- Nicki Minaj was entirely shut out of the music awards show, save for a guest appearance on Post Malone's heavily nominated Beerbongs & Bentleys. Cardi, meanwhile, will likely be front row at the February awards show, waiting to see if her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, and Bad Bunny/J Balvin collab, "I Like It," will win the night's big awards. The 26-year-old rapper was also nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance in Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," and Best Rap Performance for "Be Careful." The feud between the rap queens has been well-documented. After a (click here) physical altercation at a New York Fashion Week party in September, Cardi and Nicki traded barbs on social media and beyond -- wi...

Update:: ’Femi Asu Axxela Limited, a Nigerian gas and power portfolio company, has signed a Gas Transportation Agreement with the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited to transport over 15 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas via the West African Gas Pipeline to Lome, Togo. The Chief Executive Officer, Axxela, Bolaji Osunsanya, was quoted as saying at the signing ceremony in Accra, Ghana, “The partnership between Axxela, WAPCo, and the West African Gas Pipeline Authority, portends major benefits for the West African gas markets.” He said, according to a statement, that the flow of new molecules beyond the existing foundation contracts would diversify gas supply sources into the WAGP. Osunsanya, who affirmed Axxela’s mid-term growth plan, said, “Propelled by our professionalism, strategic partnerships, and excellence across our business enterprise, we remain firmly committed to the positioning of gas as a catalyst for socio-economic empowerment across the ...