66th Grammy Awards: Organisers add 3 new categories

The Recording Academy has added a new music category for African music; Best African Music Performance for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. It also announced two other additional categories—Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording. Additionally, the existing categories of producer of the year, non-classical and songwriter of the year, non-classical will be…

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JAPA: Nigeria loses over $430,000 to Schengen visa rejection, ranks 4th highest spender

Nigeria has been ranked fourth among top ten African countries whose citizens spend a huge amount of money to obtain Schengen visas but later got rejected. A recent analysis of visa expenditures by SchengenVisaInfo revealed the substantial financial burden African countries face in obtaining Schengen visas. According to the findings, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia spent…

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Court orders arrest of IGP, AIG for contempt

An Abuja-based National Industrial Court has ordered the arrest of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Usman Alkali, and the Force Secretary, AIG Hafeez Inuwa, for disobeying the court order, which was regarded as contempt. The court had earlier ordered the IGP to reinstate some police officers, who are graduates of courses 33, 34 and…

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