British MPs on Monday approved a bill allowing Prime Minister Theresa May to begin Brexit, voting down two amendments put forward by the House of Lords.
The bill now passes for final approval to the Lords, which had inserted the changes to protect the rights of EU citizens and give parliament a larger say on the final outcome of the Brexit negotiations.
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Four among the housemates in the ongoing Big Brother Nigeria reality show have been nominated on Monday for possible eviction on Sunday, newsmen report.
The housemates for possible eviction are Efe, Tboss, ThinTallTony and Debie-rise.
Every Monday, each housemate is given the opportunity to nominate another for possible eviction on Sunday.
Initially Bally, Tboss and ThinTallTony got high nomination, thus they were nominated for eviction but Bassey as the Head of House saved Bally and replaced him with Efe.
In twist of events, Marvis used her power card to nominate Debie-Rise.
At least one among the four nominated housemates would be evicted on Sunday.
Since the show started in January, six real housemates and two fake housemates have been evicted.
The evicted real housemates were Soma, Miyonse, Coco Ice, Gifty and Uriel, while the fake ones were Ese and Jon.
Kemen, who was the sixth evicted housemate, was disqualified by Big Brother for fondling Tboss while she was fast asleep beside him.
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Zambia beat Senegal 2-0 in the final on Sunday in Lusaka to be crowned champions of the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations Zambia 2017.
First half goals from Patson Daka and Edward Chilufya was all the Junior Chipolopolo needed to claim their first ever title in the history of the biennial competition.
Besides being the second Southern African country after Angola (in 2001) to be crowned champions, Zambia’s feat makes them the fourth host to claim the ultimate after Morocco (1997), Ghana (1999) and Congo (2007).
Zambia was the only team in the competition to win all matches and they capped their campaign in grand style with the title in hand.
Watched by a full house at the 50,000-capacity Heroes National Stadium in the capital, Lusaka, including President of the country, Edgar Lungu, the Junior Chipolopolo ensured the fans left the stadium the happiest.
Senegal really tested the Zambians but their efforts were little enough to save them from a successive final defeat. ‘Les Lionceaux’ lost 0-1 to Nigeria in the 2015 final on home soil.
It was the Senegalese who started on a positive note and on seven minutes, Ibrahima Niane tested Zambia goalie Mangani Banda with a low shot, which Banda collected calmly.
On the quarter-hour mark, Fashion Sakala was gifted with Zambia’s first major chance. He outwitted his marker but his angled shot missed target by inches.
Two minutes later, the stadium erupted as Daka gave the Junior Chipolopolo the lead capitalising on a blunder by Senegal goalie Lamine Sarr. Sarr failed to make a firm grab of Sakala’s seemingly harmless shot and Daka who was lurking around slotted home to send the over 50,000 fans into a frenzy mood.
The goal brought out the best of ‘Les Lionceaux’ who stepped up their game in search of the equalizer. However, it was Zambia who managed to score on 34 minutes from yet another mistake by Sarr. The goalie in his bid to clear his lines saw his shot come off the body of Chilufya as the ball headed straight into his own net.
Senegal were the better team in the second half dominating in possession and pinning the Zambians to their half with Niane and Aliou Badji coming close a couple of times.
Midway, the host almost scored the third following a one-two between Enock Mwepu and Sakala that saw Daka at the receiving end. Daka lobbed past onrushing Sarr only for Senegal captain Mamadou Diarra to clear the ball off the line to his side’s relief.
The final minutes saw the Zambians defence kept boiling following raids by the Senegal attack, however they held on to claim victory.
Source: CAF
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Spiff TV, Drop New song Called “Just As I Am” Featuring Chris Brown & Prince Royce who serves as the in-house director for basically all MMG music videos, is putting together an album that mixes hip-hop with Latin music, resulting in a series of different collaborations, which we imagine he’s finnessing behind-the-scenes (while not actually appearing on any of the songs himself,Among the collabs, we’ve received a visual treatment for “Just As I Am” with Future and Yandel. It’s heavier on the Yandel than it is on the Future side, and it’s definitely got some Latin flavor to it
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Jake Miller newly released albums in The Gifted and Born Sinner are holding the No.1 and No.2 slots on Billboard’s album charts. Now Wale and J. Cole come through with their promise and treat fans with a new collaboration, “Living Room” Featuring Timeflies The two Roc Nation MC’s stick to lyrics and as the title suggests, keeps it cold over the soulful production of Jake One
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Lil’ Durk has a new project on the way titled Love Songs For The Streets. The OTF rapper gave us a preview of what to expect earlier this month with the Young Thug assisted “Trap House Remix” Durk now returns with a new song called “Trap House Remix” Featuring Young Thug & Young Dolph where the young Chi-Raq native keeps it simple turning up inside his private residence
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DJ Premier While most of us are dreaming away peacefully in La-La Land at night, many creatives are up putting their soul into art. Singer Torii Wolf knows all about having restless nights with her thoughts racing at a mile per minute.“Preem played me this beat he made for Yuna that she didn’t end up using, and I instantly felt connected to it,” says Torii about her new song, “2 LOVIN U ” Featuring Miguel “I’ve never been a good sleeper, I sleep in tiny intervals, if at all, and when I do I talk in my sleep.”The moody song takes us deep into Torii’s thoughts as she floats aimlessly over the pounding drums. “Shadows Crawl” is like an Ambien trip for music connoisseurs who crave Group Home sounds mixed with the vocals of a songstress who embodies the soul of the ’60s
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Henrie Mutuku (born 1978) is a Kenyan Gospel Singer.
Mutuku was born in Nairobi in 1978, the firstborn with three brothers to Mr. and Mrs. Mutuku. She grew up in the Eastlands, a densely populated area in Nairobi inhabited by generally low income residents, and from a very young age was exposed to a diverse range of music styles including R&B, Reggae, Rap, Benga, Lingala and other African blends of music.
She learnt to sing and play the piano, and started performing early in life at family gatherings before graduating to singing in Sunday School class in a neighborhood church and later with the church choir.
Mutuku considered pursuing a singing career during high school, where she was an active member of the Drama Club and Choir mistress for the school choir.
She is fluent in Swahili, English, Kamba (her mother-tongue) and Sheng.
Henrie started working in music with local Christian artists like Izzo and Pete Odera as a background vocalist. She later featured predominantly in a 2002 compilation album ‘Rebirth’ produced by Soul Child Inc. Her career was catapulted after duel winning the KORA 2002 Best Artiste East Africa (with Eric Wainaina).
Henrie Mutuku’s debut album was “Simama” (Stand) which has gone on to contribute hit songs like “Usichoke” (featuring Roughtone and R.K) and “Manzi wa Maana” (featuring K.J. of Redykulass-a Kenyan comedy troupe). She has also featured prominently in popular music countdown radio shows like Kiss 100’s “Smirnoff Top 7 songs in Nairobi”, East Africa FM Radio’s ‘Link’ and Kampala FM as voted by listeners. ‘Manzi wa Maana’ especially captured the hearts of young ladies, swiftly becoming an anthem of chastity and virtue, all the while redefining the true essence of a beautiful African woman. She has since recorded another music video for the song ‘Amini’, taken off her album ‘Simama’.
Henrie Mutuku has curtain raised for Bebo Norman at two concerts, allowing her to make her first music video, “Nakuhitaji” (I Need you), created by the local Family T.V. for the promotion of the Bebo Norman Tour. She then recorded yet another music video for the song “Amini” (Believe), a feature in her album ‘Simama’.
In 2003 she won 2 Kisima Awards for Best Female Artiste and Best
Contemporary Gospel Artiste. She was also nominated for a KORA Award in 2003.
Henrie Mutuku actively participates in fundraising and awareness activities for HIV/AIDS prevention, AIDS orphans and patients, the Protecting Life Movement in Kenya and Bible translation and literacy.
Henrie Mutuku, after being away from the music scene for almost 10 years (from 2004), came back in 2014 with a new track by the name “Langu” off the
album “Tena” (Again).
Henrie Mutuku got married to her fiancé, Charles Njau, on 21 April 2014.
* An Uzomedia Biography
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Kemi Adeosun
The three tiers of Government have shared the sum of N 465.149 billion being federation generated revenue for the month of January 2017
The figure is N65.149 billion more than what was shared for December 2016.
Addressing journalists at the end of the FAAC meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, Permanent Secretary of the federal ministry of finance Alhaji Mahmoud Isa-Dutse noted that federation revenue increased despite the Force Majeure and shut-down of pipelines for repairs and maintenance due to leakages and sabotage.
Isa-Dutse added that Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) collected increased significantly while revenues from Companies Income Tax (CIT), Value Added Tax (VAT), import duties and royalty decreased slightly.
For January, a total of N273.452 billion was shared as statutory allocation with the federal government pocketing N133.192 billion, state governments N67.557 billion, local governments councils N52.083 billion and N20.620 was disbursed as 13% derivation to oil mineral producing states.
From VAT proceeds, the federal government received N10.587 billion, state governments N35.291 billion and local government councils N24.703 billion.
The Permanent Secretary also disclosed that the Excess Crude Account (ECA) has the of $2.458 billion left in the account as at the time of addressing the press.
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Leonardo Jardim
Leonardo Jardim says there will be no battening down the hatches when his Monaco side play Manchester City in the Champions League last 16 first leg clash on Tuesday at the Etihad Stadium.
The 42-year-old Venezuela-born coach — who has guided Monaco to the top of Ligue 1 despite having a significantly inferior budget to champions Paris Saint-Germain — said attacking football was in the team’s DNA and the players know that.
“It is a message that I pass on to the players: whether playing (non league) Chambly, PSG or Tottenham (above whom they finished in their Champions League group), it’s always the same style,” he said at the eve of match press conference.
“We have a DNA, we worked for that. The team will not change depending on the adversary.
“It is our 11th European match this season and the team has played the same way in all the previous ones.
“Perhaps the result is not always the same but that is life.”
Jardim, who two years ago guided a Monaco side including current Manchester United star Anthony Martial to the Champions League quarter-finals, said he was flattered by compliments from City counterpart Pep Guardiola.
But he said there were major differences between the respective clubs.
“I am a realist,” said Jardim. “He (Guardiola) was comparing the two teams.
“Both sides like to keep the ball, and have loads of highly-talented technical players. They also both work hard.
“However, there are areas where the teams can’t be compared.
“One can’t compare the value of both teams on the transfer market. We have players of great quality, that is true, but they have players who can be match winners on their own.”
Jardim, who has kept Monaco competitive despite regularly having to sell his best players — Portugal international Bernard Silva has been linked with Chelsea and both Manchester clubs — said he was looking forward to playing a side coached by Guardiola.
“He is a colleague to me,” said Jardim, who came to Monaco in 2014 after a spell with Sporting Lisbon.
“He is a good coach, who coached three big clubs: Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City.
“But is is difficult to talk of his methods, because what one reads is one thing, the reality is sometimes another.”
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APC
A Board of Trustee (BoT) member of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Ismaila Ahmed says Nigerians are entitled to constructively criticism of the Federal Government.
He said this in Abuja on Sunday at an interactive session organised by Citizens Support for Good Governance (CSGG) in Nigeria. CSGG is a coalition of Non Governmental Organisations and Civil Society Organisations in the country.
The programme which was attended by students of the University of Abuja, Nasarawa State University, Keffi and Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, was used to identify the achievements of the APC-led Federal Government.
“As government, we have to be open to criticism, some people are not happy and they have to express their frustration, people have to express their anger.
“We cannot and should not have problem with that, we have done many things right and we also have so many things we have done wrong; there is no doubt about that.
“But the things we have done right, we will continue to strengthen them, those we have done wrongly please tell us.
“What we can do, we will do, where we make mistakes we will admit, but the essence of governance is to ensure the welfare of the people.”
He advised Nigerians to feel free to ask questions on what they felt were wrong with government, adding that every issue raised would be addressed in the interest of all.
Ahmed, however, said that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari had done a lot that should be celebrated.
According to him, the government is fixing the system and the various institutions in the country to enable it tackle the menace of corruption effectively and deliver on its campaign promises.
To this end, the APC-led Federal Government was working to earn the trust and confidence of Nigerians, Ahmed said.
Ealier, Alhaji Tahir Umar, a panellist, identified greed, poverty and illiteracy among others as reasons responsible for corruption in Nigeria.
According to him, the country has lost trillions of naira to corruption; this is a sad development.
Umar said it was unfortunate that those who were not comfortable with the anti corruption stance of Buhari in the country were wishing him dead.
He advised the Federal Government not to be deterred by the antics of corrupt individuals in the country.
Mr Chinedu Okpala, another panellist, said the President Buhari-led administration had laid a good foundation which had created fear in the minds of those who may wish to perpetrate evil in public offices.
He, however, said that while citizens had the right to criticise government, it was also their civic responsibility to show patriotism by supporting it.
Mr Moses Abdullahi, CSGG National Convener, said that Nigerian youths were at the receiving end of the looting of public funds that had taken place in the past.
This, he said, was the reason they should support the Buhari-led government to fight corruption to a standstill.
He encouraged youths in the country to build their self value, realise themselves and give support to government at all levels.
Abdullahi said that the Buhari-led administration was building a foundation that would ensure that youths in the country would not need a godfather to get to the top or achieve their desires.
The programme was organised for youths to air their views about the present administration and the way forward for Nigeria.
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