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Is Burna boy the first Nigerian artiste to be nominated for a Grammy award?

No. Sade Adu, British-American singer, born on January 16, 1959, in Ibadan, Nigeria and raised in London has been nominated for the award nine times and won four Grammy awards.

She won her first Grammy in 1986 in the Best New Artist category. She also won the Best R&B Performance by a duo or group with vocals in 1994 for the song, “No Ordinary Love.”

Sade Adu also won another Grammy in 2002 in the category of the Best Pop Vocal Album, with the song “Lovers Rock,” while in 2011, she won the Best R&B Performance by a group with vocals in 2011 for “Soldier of Live.”

Was President Buhari eminently qualified to contest?

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that President Muhammadu Buhari was “eminently qualified” to contest the February 23 presidential election.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, prepared the full judgment of the apex court which is being read by Justice John Okoro.

The full judgment delivered on Friday was to provide explanations for the apex court’s summary decision of October 30 which dismissed the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar challenging the victory of Buhari at the February 23 presidential poll.

In the full judgment of the apex court delivered on Friday, the court affirmed the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal which held that Buhari possessed the requisite educational qualification to contest the poll.

It held that the Nigerian Constitution only required a candidate contesting the presidential election to be educated up to secondary education even when the candidate does not possess the certificate.

It added that by virtue of the provisions of the Constitution, a candidate who possesses a primary school certificate and has worked in the public or private service for a period not less than 10 years, and can read, write and communicate in the English language to the satisfaction of INEC is qualified to contest.

It also held that contrary to the contention of the appellants, Buhari did not submit false information about his educational qualification to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

It also ruled that the appellants failed to prove that the www.factsdontlie.ng from which the appellants downloaded the results of the election which they relied on, belonged to INEC.

The Supreme Court also said the appellants failed to prove the alleged irregularities including overvoting.

It added that the appellants merely dumped documents on the lower court without calling witnesses to demonstrate them.

It ruled that it was alarming that the appellants only called five polling unit agents across the entire polling units in the country in their attempt to prove the alleged non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act.

The judgment is still being delivered.

Source: PunchNG

Did former Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger get a job at FIFA?

Yes he did. According to a report by BBC,Wenger accepted the role from FIFA after he was tipped to be the manager of Bayern Munich football club. His new role at the world governing body will help to develop men’s and women’s football, as well as technical aspects of the sport.

He will now be a member of the technical panel of the International Football Association Board, and chairman of Fifa’s technical study group.

Has the importation of rice been banned in Nigeria?

The Nigerian Government has totally banned the importation of goods through any of its land borders.

The government had on August 20 announced the partial closure of its border to importation of goods.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Retd), who spoke for the joint border security exercise along Nigeria’s borders, said goods could only come into the country through the seaports and airports.

He added that the preference for foreign goods especially food items like rice has continuously impoverished our farmers and adversely affected domestic government policies supporting the agricultural sector to enhance food security.

He also lauded the partial border closure, saying it had so far curbed the smuggling of foreign rice into the country in addition to other prohibited items.

He said, “The border closure has impacted positively on revenue generation of the government which in turn will be used to build more infrastructures and develop critical sectors of the nation’s economy.

“In addition, the National Assembly has supported the executive directive on the border closure and the efforts of security agencies in executing the task.

“Goods that are on the prohibition list to Nigeria such as rice, used clothing, poultry products and vegetable oil should not be imported into the country.

“Let’s understand that all perishable items are on prohibition whether on export or import.

“Therefore, nobody can carry tomato to the border to import or export. So it makes it easier for us to close and ensure that all goods for now are banned from being exported or imported through our land borders.

“That is to ensure that we have total control over what comes in and what we do. We are strategizing on how best the goods can be handled when we get to when this operation will relax.

Did President Buhari wed another wife recently?

Few days before the rumoured wedding, Twitter was agog with memes and tweets of the President taking a second wife which was not refuted by official quarters. The wedding was supposed to have been planned on Friday, 11 October, but the Twitter account of Sadiya Farouq displayed she was away in the Swiss city of Geneva from Thursday, where she led Nigeria’s delegation at a meeting of the United Nations refugees agency.

She did not return to Nigeria until Tuesday, based on what she posted on the same account.

How true is it that Nigeria supplies power to other countries?

On 14^th July 2017, at a Presidency Quarterly Business Forum in Abuja, the then Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola explained that Nigeria had no choice than to give power to certain countries as some of the rivers that sustain our main source of power supply, the Kainji Dam, flow from these countries. So, in exchange for not damming those rivers and preventing them from flowing into Kainji, the countries got, well, mandatory supply of electricity from Nigeria.

Do we refine oil in Nigeria?

According to link.springer.com Nigeria has; Old Port Harcourt Refinery; capacity 60,000 bpsd commissioned in 1965, Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company; capacity 125,000 bpsd commissioned in 1978, Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company; capacity 110,000 bpsd commissioned in 1980, New Port Harcourt Refinery; capacity 150,000 bpsd commissioned in 1989.

Thus, the total installed capacity is 445,000 bpsd. These plants in the last 15–20 years had a poor operating record with average capacity utilization hovering between 15 and 25% per annum. As a result, 70–80% of the national petroleum products demand is met through import. As at 2017, the aggregate demand of petroleum products in Nigeria was equivalent to 750,000 bpsd.

Presently, a small percentage of production can only be refined domestically as refining capacity is very low and barely enough to meet local demand. As such, Nigeria relies heavily on refined fuel importation.