2022 Grammy Awards postponed, new date, venue announced

The 2022 Grammy Awards has announced a new date and location.

Organisers, The Recording Academy, confirmed the annual awards show will be held on April 3 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

The announcement comes after The Recording Academy postponed the awards ceremony on January 5th, 2022.

The ceremony was initially scheduled for January 31 in Los Angeles at the Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center), but was postponed due to the surge of the Omicron variant.

This is the second year in a row that the Grammy Awards have been postponed.

Last year, the Grammys were also scheduled for January 31, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Daily Show” host Trevor Noah is still scheduled to host the 2022 Grammy Awards.

In late November, The Recording Academy released the nominations list for the awards ceremony with Nigerian musician, Wizkid bagging two nominations for Essence and Made In Lagos album.

Femi and Made Kuti were also nominated under Best Global Music Album category

"My husband worked for all he has" Toyin Abraham

Nollywood star, Toyin Abraham Ajeyemi, has knocked critics who ridicule her husband’s hard work.

The actress, in an Instagram post on Wednesday night, sounded a note of warning to critics who assume that she was richer than her husband, Kolawole Ajeyemi, due to her popularity.

She noted that whatever her husband has was from his hard work and not due to her popularity.

The actress wrote, “I don’t usually do this and I am only going to address this just once and I hope this ends here.

“People need to stop this mentality that famous people or the more famous ones are the richest in their family, relationships or even friendships.

“Just because some people do not like to blow their own horns doesn’t mean they should be seen as less or incapable.

“I’m speaking up because I won’t let people talk down on my husband who is a very hard working man and is doing a lot for me and the kids. Do not ridicule his hard work and what he stands for.

Everything he has, he’s worked for with his own sweat and he deserves it.

“I am the last born of my family and you’d think I’m the richest just because I’m famous which is far from the truth.

“It is 2022 please, we need to do better and stop this ill mannered mentality.

“Celebrate people without trying to pitch them against another person or ridicule their hard work or give credit to another. It’s so old and needs to stop.”

12 Tunisia players test positive for Covid at Cup of Nations

Tunisia’s players take part in an MD-1 training session Centenary Stadium in Limbe, on January 19, 2022, on the eve of their Group F Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2021 football match against Gambia. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)

Tunisia’s preparations for their final Africa Cup of Nations group match against Gambia were thrown into disarray after 12 players in the 28-man squad contracted Covid-19, the country’s football federation said Wednesday.

Key player Wahbi Khazri is among the players to test positive.

“This evening (Wednesday) the players took part in a training session with 16 players present and the rest absent due to Covid-19 contamination,” the federation said on its Facebook page.

The federation also said: “Tuesday, the tests revealed the contamination of Ali Maaloul, Aymen Dahmen, Ghailene Chaalali, Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane, Wahbi Khazri, Ali Jemal and Mohamed Amine Ben Hmida who have been isolated from the group.”

Right-back Mohamed Drager has though recovered from the virus and Tunisia are hoping that five other players, positive since the start of the tournament, will test negative before Thursday’s game.

Tunisia, the 2004 winners, need to at least draw their final Group F match to be sure of qualification for the last 16.

The Carthage Eagles bounced back from their controversial opening 1-0 loss to Mali, when the referee blew the final whistle early, by thrashing Mauritania 4-0 in their second game.

By AFP

Husband, Wife Arrested For Invading Their Child’s School With Thugs To Beat Teacher

A couple, Oyedele Nutai Joseph, and his wife, Elizabeth Joseph, has been arrested for unlawfully invading Toyon High school Ere village in Ado Odo area of Ado Odo ota local government, Ogun state with thugs to attack a teacher, Abel Thomas for beating their son, Joshua Joseph.

The state police spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident said the couple were arrested following a distress call received by the policemen at Ado Odo divisional headquarters, from the school, that parents of one of their students are in the school with thugs and have beaten and injured one of the teachers.

Oyeyemi said; “Upon the distress call, the DPO of Ado Odo division, SP Arowojeun Michael, quickly led his men to the school where the couple were arrested while their other accomplices escaped.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that the teacher Abel Thomas, ‘moderately corrected’ an SS3 student of the school by the name Joshua Joseph who then went home to inform his parents that he was beaten by the teacher.

“Having heard from their son, the parents who felt that the teacher has no right to beat their son for any reason mobilized some thugs and stormed the school.

“On getting to the school, they descended heavily on the teacher, beat and injured him. They also damaged the back screen of a Toyota Corolla with registration number LSD 395 FV belonging to another teacher of the school Jolayemi Sunday.”

The PPRO, who said the injured teacher had been taken to the hospital for medical treatment, added that the state commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered that the escaped thugs who accompanied the couple to attack the school should be hunted for and brought to justice.

CP Bankole also directed that the arrested couple should be charged to court without delay.

Popular Comedian AY Welcomes second child after 13years

Nigerian Comedian, Actor, Movie Producer and Director Ayo Makun Popularly Known as AY and his Wife Welcome their Second Child and Daughter After 13 years

The Happy Dad Took to his Instagram to Announce the New Addition to his Household 

“Our prayers in the last 13 years has been

answered. AYOMIDE thank you for making

#realmabelmakun and I, Mummy and Daddy again. Thank

you for making Michelle a BIG SISTER. Thanks to everyone

who kept us in their prayers and never stopped feeding us

with positive vibes.

Recalling that AY had a great 2021 as he clocked 50 and also released a sequel to his Akpos movie character Christmas in Miami, he has indeed start this new year on a good note

He went further in his appreciation post

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your

own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he

will make your paths straight."

GOD'S TIME IS ALWAYS THE BEST “

Celebrities have reacted to the good news by commenting under the post on instagram 

Toyin Abraham, Ufoma McDermott, Annie Idibia, Real Warri Pikin, Chioma Akpotha, Adesuwa Etomi and many others reacted to the good news.

Court Affirms Douye Diri As Bayelsa PDP Candidate, Timi Alaibe Loses

The Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, capital of Imo State, has dismissed a case brought before it by a former governorship aspirant in the 2019 elections in Bayelsa State, Chief Timi Alaibe, for lacking in merit.

In a two-hour judgment of case No. FHC/OW/CS/30/20 delivered Tuesday, Justice T.G. Ringim struck out most of the reliefs sought by the plaintiff (Alaibe) for failing to prove that the first defendant, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), wrongly nominated the second defendant (Governor Douye Diri) as the validly elected candidate of the party.

Justice Ringim noted that the plaintiff’s application was not status barred because he met the time frame from the primary to the period he challenged the matter, saying: “Every primary election matter should be filed not later than 14 days period after the primary.” He however stated that the case was an internal affair of the party.

He also ruled that the plaintiff was incompetent to urge the first defendant to conduct a fresh primary having conducted the party’s primary on September 3, 2019.

Man Flog His Own Grandmother After His Pastor Accused Her Of Being A Witch

A man was filmed flogging her Grandmother after her pastor told him that her Grandmother is a witch.

In a horrific video shared by a social media user identified as jeromeabba, the man is seen hitting her mother with a cane in public

According to jeromeabba, the man’s pastor revealed to the man that she is not progressing in life because her mother is destroying every move he makes.

jeromeabba tweeted;
Would you flog your mother or grand mother because of witch craft?Face with rolling eyesThinking face
Was this act appropriate?Person facepalming
Did she deserve it?Thinking face