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NOA urges all leaders to de-escalate tension, preach peace
File Photo Responding to the spike in violent crimes and insecurity across Nigeria, the National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged political, ethnic and religious leaders to take deliberate steps to de-escalate tensions and promote peace, unity and tolerance among the citizens. In a letter of appeal signed by the Director General of NOA, Dr Garba Abari, the agency said the present situation called for leaders across political, religious, traditional, professional and the social landscape to do all within their powers to arrest the situation to avoid further deterioration. The letter reads in part: ‘At these very challenging times, all the nation and its citizens need are deeper reflection and sobriety in what we do and say, as truly, the forces of disunity and national disintegration are ...
Luke Bryan Talks ‘Proud’ Tour and Forgetting His Own Lyrics
There’s a slight problem. Do you ever forget the lyrics to songs that you ought to know so, so well? Luke Bryan has that issue. “I’ve always been a guy who loves to be on the road and love to be out there with the fans, and interacting,” he told Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night’s edition of The Tonight Show. Bryant has done some live streaming concerts, though he’s “forgetting the words to my songs quite a bit.” There’s a bit of rust to shake off. “I’m gonna have to sit in my music room and go back and listen to (those songs),” he explained. “I’m going to have to do a little extra prep, I’m a little out of practice with some of this stuff.” Bryan also talked about his judging stint on American Idol, going gray and being confused for Blake Shelton. Watch the interview below. You Deserv...
The Players Behind Gabby Barrett’s ‘The Good Ones’: See the Full Credits
Explore the team of musicians, producers and more behind the track with recording credits provided by Jaxsta below. Artists:Main Artist – Gabby Barrett Songwriters:Composer Lyricist – Emily LandisComposer Lyricist – Gabby BarrettComposer Lyricist – Jim McCormickComposer Lyricist – Zachary Kale Producers:Producer – Ross CoppermanProducer – Zach Kale Production Team:Assistant Production – Scott JohnsonProgrammer – Zach Kale Engineers:Digital Editor – Daniel RossDigital Editor – Ross CoppermanDigital Editor – Trey KellerDigital Editor – Zach KaleMasterer – Daniel BacigalupiMixer – Buckley MillerRecorded by – Ross CoppermanRecorded by – Zach Kale Performers: Acoustic Guitar R...
Lee Brice’s ‘One of Them Girls’ Named Song of the Year by Nashville Independent Music Publishers
The AIMP event featured live performances by McBryde, Pearce, HARDY, Jon Pardi, Maddie & Tae, and Tennille Arts & Adam Hambrick and video performances by Brice and Ryan Hurd. But the producers deliberately changed things up to make it more interesting. Hurd performed Brice’s “One of Them Girls.” Brice performed HARDY’s “Give Heaven Some Hell.” HARDY performed Jameson Rodgers’ “Some Girls.” “Last night was a reaffirmation of the Nashville independent music community and the powerful work they have done to get us through this past year,” said Ree Guyer, vice president of the AIMP Nashville chapter and co-chair of the AIMP Nashville awards. “As we approach the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are excited about the return of in-person songwriting sessions, writers’ rounds, and live per...
Pastor Enenche: Nigerian security chiefs now supervising mass killings, insecurity
Renowned gospel preacher, Pastor Paul Enenche, has decried the wave of killings and general insecurity in the land, saying that Security chiefs now supervising mass killings, insecurity in the country. Worried by the spate of violent attacks in different parts of the country during a prayer session in his church, Enenche accused the leadership of the country of complacency in the face of the worsening insecurity. The cleric in a viral video on Facebook monitored by in Abia cautioned those in authority to stop the flow of blood in the land or brace up for God’s wrath. Lamenting the inability of the country’s leadership to stem the tide of disturbing insecurity in Nigeria, the cleric declared that Nigeria is infested with weak and inept leadership. The cleric who was livid with the casualty ...
Ondo NUJ tasks Immigration Service on insecurity, passport
File Photo The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ondo State Council, has appealed to the Federal Government to adequately fund the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to boost its performance. The union said that the funding would enable the agency to fully perform its primary responsibilities of providing internal security as well as to overcome challenges of issuing passports to citizens. The NUJ Chairman, Mr Adetona Aderoboye, made the appeal when he led members of the union executive council on a courtesy visit to the state Conptroller of NIS, Ibong Osato Aideyan, at her office on Wednesday in Akure. “In view of the current security challenges facing the nation, it has become expedient for the federal government to give adequate backing to the agency. “It is for it to be able to proper...
NAS: Presidency’s defence of Isa Pantami irresponsible
File Photo The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) has berated the Presidency over its defence of the embattled Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. NAS in a statement signed by the NAS Capoon, Mr Abiola Owoaje, titled ‘Isa Pantami Must Go’ stated that that the Presidency’s defence was “an ill-judged action that provides a safe haven for a self-confessed sympathiser of terrorism.” Owoaje who described the Presidency’s defence as hollow pointed out that “it suggests that the Buhari administration is so deeply infected with bigotry that the defence of a Minister is informed by factors more primordial than the integrity of governance.” According to him “President Buhari’s decision to retain Pantami as Minister despite documented evidence of him bein...
Senate passes amended AMCON bill, empowers agency to seize debtors’ assets
The Senate Wednesday passed the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria Amendment bill after considering the report of its Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Other Financial Institutions. The amendment bill passed by the upper chamber empowers the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria to, among others, take possession, manage or sell all properties traced to debtors, whether or not such assets or property is used as security/collateral for obtaining the loan in particular. It also empowers the corporation to access the Special Tribunal established by the BOFIA, 2020 for dealing with financial related matters. Presenting the report, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Uba Sani (APC, Kaduna Central) said the Committee engaged with stakeholders such as AMCON, Federal Ministry of Finance, ...
NAPTIP chief seeks renewed regional collaboration against illegal migration, trafficking
The Director General of National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Imaan Sulaiman Ibrahim, as called for renewed regional collaboration against illegal migration and human trafficking. This was as he expressed sadness over the incessant mishap involving hundreds of irregular migrants on the Mediterranean Sea enroute Europe describing it as huge loss that could be avoided. She called stakeholders across the World and specifically in African to join hands with the Agency in its renewed efforts to scale up sensitization and awareness campaign as a way of remedying the situation. Mrs Suaiman Ibrahim, according to a statement, Wednesday, by Stella Nezan, Head, Press and Public Relations Unit of NAPTIP, “made the call in Abuja while reacting to the recent human casual...
Report: Nigerian politicians own 800 assets worth $400 million in London, Dubai
File Photo An Associate Fellow of Chatham House, London, Mr. Matthew Page, said yesterday that 800 property worth $400 million and owned by Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) in Nigeria were located in London and Dubai. The revelation is coming as the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanonye, said it dragged about 2,000 corporate entities into the country’s tax net. A statement issued by ICPC said Page made the disclosure in his paper presentation titled: “IFFs through the Real Estate and Education Sectors: Implications for Investigators,” at an event organised by the agency in Abuja. He urged the investigators of the ICPC to pay attention to real estate and education sectors-linked illicit financial flows. He noted ...
Eric Church’s Scores Third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Heart’
Of Heart’s debut sales of 40,000, physical album sales comprise nearly 25,000 of that figure (13,000 CDs and 12,000 vinyl LPs) while digital album sales comprise a little under 16,000. Heart is one of three new albums from Church, collectively referred to as Heart & Soul. Heart was released on April 16, the & album is available only to members of the artist’s Church Choir fan club, and Soul was released on April 23. Rock group Greta Van Fleet sees its new studio album The Battle at Garden’s Gate debut at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 39,000 copies sold. A sturdy 16,000 of that sum was on vinyl LP, and Battle also bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. A pair of former No. 1s are next on Top Album Sales, as Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-3 in its second week wi...
APC chieftain asks President Buhari to declare state of emergency on security
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Otunba Olusegun Agbalajobi, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently declare a state of emergency on security in the country. This, he said has become a child of necessity following the rising waves of kidnappings, killings, banditry, insurgency and other manifestations of insecurity bedeviling the country. Agbalajobi, in a statement titled, ‘Nigeria and its preponderance of insecurity’ issued in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday, said declaring emergency on security would help to stem the rising waves of security challenges that are fast pushing Nigeria to precipice. He stressed that the worsening security situation in the country requires desperate and decisive measure in the best interest of Nigerians, hence, the need to ...
