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The organizers of the Soundcity MVP Music Awards have released the nominees list for its 2018 edition. Here is the full list of nominees: Ayodeji ‘Wizkid’ Balogun, Burna Boy, Tiwa and Davido are the top contenders in the 2018 Soundcity MVP awards. The organisers unveiled the nominees’ lists on Thursday, with Wizkid nominated in most categories. They include Best Male MVP, Best Pop, Best Collaboration, Digital Artiste of the Year, Video of the Year, Listeners’ Choice, Viewers’ Choice and African Artiste of the Year categories. Burna Boy, was the second most nominated, with seven nominations, while Davido had five nominations. The award ceremony, which is scheduled to hold at the Eko Convention Centre on January 5, 2019, will “honour excellent individuals and personalities in the areas of sports, entrepreneurship, creative arts, fashion, digital influence and socio-political development as it ties into entertainment”. Apart from Wizkid, Davido and Burna Boy, others nominated for the...

Prime Minister Theresa May The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has condemned former prime minister, Tony Blair, accusing him of undermining the Brexit talks by calling for another referendum. Mr Blair has been calling for another referendum on Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU). Ms May frowned at the call, saying a new vote would be a “gross betrayal” of democracy. She said Mr Blair’s comment is an “insult to the office he once held” and a gross betrayal of democracy. She also said MPs could not “abdicate responsibility” to deliver Brexit by holding a new poll. Ms May and her government are opposed to any further referendum, saying the public made a clear choice when they voted in 2016 to leave by a margin of 51.9 per cent to 48.1 per cent. The BBC quotes Ms May as saying: “For Tony Blair to go to Brussels and seek to undermine our negotiations by advocating for a second referendum is an insult to the office he once held and the people he once served. “We cannot, as ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it would not be selling registration forms for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) until January 2019. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this to News Agency Tuesday night. He said the board had dropped the idea of starting the sale of the forms in December following the federal government’s reduction in the registration fee, with effect from January 2019. According to Mr Benjamin, candidates have just six weeks to complete their registration once it opens in January. “The attention of the board has been drawn to information going round in some social media that JAMB has already begun the sale of forms for UTME but we are not commencing sale of the forms until January 2019, and the window period will be for six weeks,” he said. He urged prospective candidates to note this period in order not to fall prey to fraudsters. Mr Benjamin said the board would make adequate publicity t...

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared that it would begin an indefinite strike from December 12. The polytechnic lecturers will join their university colleagues who have been on strike for a month. In a phone interview Wednesday morning, the National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said the federal government had failed to meet the demands of the polytechnic lecturers. Prior to this impending strike, the union had on October 2 issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government before it extended it to November. But even then, it did not commence the strike. But Mr Dutse said the proposed strike would be “total and indefinite”. “This further emphasizes the resolution of the 93rd National Executive Council meeting reached at the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos last week,” he said. “Government has failed to implement and fulfill agreements it reached with the union as contained in the memorandum of understanding signed,” he said. ASUP went on strike in November 2017; but...