Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has challenged the permanent forfeiture of a property known as Flat 7b No 16, Osborne Road Ikoyi, Lagos to the Federal Government.

The property was the same one linked to the dismissed Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke where the EFCC recovered the sums of $43,449,947.00, €27,800 and N23,218,000.00 on the 12th of April, 2017.

At the Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos on Thursday, Union Bank laid claims to the flat and the building which it says came into its possession following a mortgage agreement between the bank, the original owner of the property, former PDP Chairman, Adamu Muazu and Tripple A Properties Investment Ltd.

Tripple A which is believed to be owned by Mr Muazu had allegedly used the property to secure a loan from the Union Bank sometime in 2011.

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A former President, Christian Association of Nigeria, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has asked the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari why life is becoming harder for Nigerians after it promised them change.

The former Catholic Archbishop of Lagos asked the question in a piece entitled, ‘The Truth and Nothing But the Truth,’ which was sent to The PUNCH _on Tuesday.

Okogie said 2018 was just a few days away but on the horizon of Nigerian politicians, it seemed 2019 would come before 2018. He said by their speeches, conduct and posture, “even the blind are able to see that preparations for the 2019 elections are already in top gear.”

The outspoken cleric, however, decried that in utter disregard to internal party democracy, candidates and sole candidates were already being endorsed, a development he pointed out did not portray politicians in good light. “With very few exceptions, they are powermongers pretending to be leaders, parasites posturing as benefactors,” he stated.

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has suspended the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr Mounir Gwarzo. Gwarzo is suspended in order to allow for an unhindered investigation of several allegations of financial impropriety levelled against him.

This was contained in a statement signed by Deputy Director, Press, Federal Ministry of Finance, Patricia Deworitshe on Wednesday, November 29. The suspension is in line with the Public Service Rules (PSRs) 03405 and 03406.

The Minister has therefore set up an Administrative Panel of Inquiry (API) to investigate and determine the culpability of the Director-General.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has reacted to reports of the slave auction in Libya describing it as appalling and unacceptable. The president said efforts have commenced bringing back home to Nigeria, victims who are stranded in Libya or any other country and also rehabilitated.

Using his official Twitter handle on Wednesday, to react to the reports of migrants being traded in action in Libya, the President said everything will be done to protect Nigerian citizens wherever they are.

Buhari also speaking in Abidjan on Tuesday night reacted to the increased rate of illegal migration in Nigeria. Buhari reacting to a viral video on the sale of Africans in Libya, President Buhari said it is appalling that “some Nigerians (in the footage) where being sold like goats for few dollars in Libya.’’

“After 43 years of Gadhafi, why are they recruiting so many people from the Sahel including Nigerians? All they learned was how to shoot and kill. They didn’t learn to be electricians, plumbers or any other trade,’’ he said.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of seeking to provoke North Korea into stepping up its nuclear missile programme.

He rejected a call by the American envoy to the UN Security Council to sever ties with the North after its latest ballistic missile test.

Speaking on a visit to the Belarussian capital Minsk, Mr Lavrov asked whether America was actively seeking to destroy North Korea. "One gets the impression that everything has been done on purpose to make Kim Jong-un snap and carry out further inadvisable actions," he said. The Americans, he said, "should explain to us all what they're after".

"If they want to find a pretext for destroying North Korea, as the US envoy said at the UN Security Council, then let them say it outright and let the supreme American leadership confirm it."

Calling for new talks with North Korea, Mr Lavrov added: "We have already emphasised several times that the squeeze of sanctions has essentially come to an end, and that those resolutions which introduced the sanctions should have included a requirement to renew the political process, a requirement to renew talks. "But the Americans completely ignore this requirement and I consider this a big mistake."

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Arsene Wenger is not expecting Jose Mourinho's Manchester United to 'park the bus' when they take on Arsenal at the Emirates on Saturday.

Both teams go into the game on the back of three successive Premier League victories, with United sitting four points and two places above Arsenal in the table.

United are looking for their first win in eight attempts against top-six opposition under Mourinho, having drawn three and lost four of their previous seven while scoring just once.

But Wenger is not expecting his counterpart to adopt a negative approach against the Gunners.

When asked if he expects Mourinho to 'park the bus', Wenger replied: "No, I don't expect anything special. I just expect us to be ready to recover now.

"Man Utd is a strong team and I expect us just to cope with the problems they will give us. They will attack as well. They will not only defend."

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It looks like President Trump's Wednesday and Thursday morning have left him feeling very defensive of his actions, so much so that he's targeted the NYT, Democrats and Theresa May for his actions the previous day. Apart from this, he's also constantly touting the tax cuts law and the amazing economy under his rule.

🐦 Departing JBA_NAFW for St. Charles, Missouri to help push our plan for HISTORIC TAX CUTS across the finish line. A successful vote in the Senate this week will bring us one giant step closer to delivering an incredible victory for the American people!

🐦 This week, the Senate can join the House & take a strong stand for the Middle Class families who are the backbone of America. Together, we will give the American people a big, beautiful Christmas present-a massive tax cut that lets Americans keep more of their HARD-EARNED MONEY!

The Senate has passed a procedural vote on the tax bill that allows debate to begin on the measure with a final vote expected late Thursday or Friday. The procedural vote passed 52-48.

🐦 A vote to CUT TAXES is a vote to PUT AMERICA FIRST. It is time to take care of OUR WORKERS, to protect OUR COMMUNITIES, and to REBUILD OUR GREAT COUNTRY!

🐦 Now, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to RESTORE AMERICAN PROSPERITY – and RECLAIM AMERICA’S DESTINY.

🐦 But in order to achieve this bright and glowing future, the SENATE MUST PASS TAX CUTS – and bring Main Street roaring back to life!

🐦Theresa_May, dont focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!

Donald Trump has hit back at Theresa May’s criticism of his decision to retweet far-right group Britain First. Trump appeared to have tagged the wrong user in his message, however. He later re-posted the tweet, tagging theresa_may instead.

🐦 The House of Representatives seeks contempt citations(?) against the JusticeDepartment and the FBI for withholding key documents and an FBI witness which could shed light on surveillance of associates of Donald Trump. Big stuff. Deep State. Give this information NOW! FoxNews

The tweet attacks the FBI, a thorn in Trump’s side since the investigation into his campaign’s collusion with Russia to “win” the election last year. It also it harks back to Trump’s unfounded claims that the Obama administration had his “wires tapped” during the campaign, although this time he is only claiming that his “associates” were surveilled.

🐦 The only people who don’t like the Tax Cut Bill are the people that don’t understand it or the Obstructionist Democrats that know how really good it is and do not want the credit and success to go to the Republicans!

Democrats have raised concerns that the bill — which would cut the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, double the standard deduction and add an estimated $1.4 trillion to the deficit over a decade, among other things — would disproportionately benefit the wealthy.

🐦 More “Had the information (Crooked Hillary’s emails) been released there would have been harm to National Security...." Charles McCullough Fmr Intel Comm Inspector General

🐦 Funny to hear the Democrats talking about the National Debt when President Obama doubled it in only 8 years!

🐦 The Failing nytimes, the pipe organ for the Democrat Party, has become a virtual lobbyist for them with regard to our massive Tax Cut Bill. They are wrong so often that now I know we have a winnere

Someone's really not happy with the media in their country❗

🐦 The Failing nytimes has totally gone against the Social Media Guidelines that they installed to preserve some credibility after many of their biased reporters went Rogue! foxandfriends

The attack on the paper came as his row with Theresa May and her Government appeared to escalate.

🐦 The Chinese Envoy, who just returned from North Korea, seems to have had no impact on Little Rocket Man. Hard to believe his people, and the military, put up with living in such horrible conditions. Russia and China condemned the launch.

China had dispatched the envoy earlier in the month after Mr Trump travelled to China on his recent 12-day Asia tour and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

🐦 Stock Market hits new Record High. Confidence and enthusiasm abound. More great numbers coming out!

🐦 The Dow just broke 24,000 for the first time (another all-time Record). If the Dems had won the Presidential Election, the Market would be down 50% from these levels and Consumer Confidence, which is also at an all-time high, would be “low and glum!”

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David Silva has signed a new one-year contract at Manchester City, the club has confirmed.

The Spain international, who has been at the Etihad Stadium since 2010, has put pen to paper on a new deal that will keep him at the club until 2020.

Silva has been in exceptional form thus far this season, with Pep Guardiola's side threatening to run away with the Premier League title.

He has provided eight assists and scored one goal in 14 league appearances thus far as City have an eight-point lead from Manchester United at the top of the table.

"I am so happy to have committed my future to City," the 31-year-old told City's official website.

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Pep Guardiola has apologised for his frenzied reaction to Manchester City's late winner against Southampton.

Raheem Sterling curled a brilliant effort home in the 96th minute, strengthening City's grip on top spot in the Premier League.

The club now lead city rivals Manchester United by eight points, winning 13 of their 14 games thus far this season and drawing one.

Guardiola celebrated the goal by running onto the pitch, and has now made sure to apologise after allowing his emotions to run away from him.

“I said ‘I apologise’ because I couldn’t control it,” said Guardiola. “I was so happy. I ran after Raheem but I’m not quick enough, but we were so happy.”

Guardiola was filmed haranguing Southampton star Nathan Redmond after the match in a bizarre altercation, but Guardiola says he was merely praising the 23-year-old's talents.

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Cristiano Ronaldo earns a staggering £308,000 every time he posts a picture on Instagram, according to a new study.

The Real Madrid superstar has 116 million followers on the social networking site, which centres on sharing pictures and videos.

While Ronaldo's feed mostly consists of pictures of his ever-growing family, the 32-year-old also shares a number of sponsored photos, promoting everything from a mobile phone and a protective case to a nutritional health drink.

And research by HopperHQ_ _has now found that Ronaldo is the third highest-paid celebrity when it comes to sponsored photos, and the highest-earning male in the world.

Pop star Selena Gomez tops the list, earning £424,000 per post, while Kim Kardashian earns £385,000. The only other sports star on the list, basketball player LeBron James, rounds out the top 10, with an earning per post of £92,457.

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said a total of N421.33m is ready to be paid to whistle-blowers for the November batch.

She said the amount included that of the whistle-blower for the cash recovered from a building in Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Adeosun disclosed this while answering questions from State House correspondents, after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

She said the money would be paid to the whistle-blower who signed the agreement and not any firm.

The minister also disclosed that the Federal Government would pay applicable taxes on the sum directly to the state government where the whistle-blower is domiciled.

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Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Senator Ben-Murray Bruce have sent congratulatory messages to Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, for winning the Best International Act award at the MOBO Awards.

At the 2017 edition of MOBO Awards, Wizkid beat Jay-Z, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar and others to clinch the award. The two who could not hold back their excitement took to the social media to celebrate Wizkid.

Jonathan wrote, “When Nigeria does well, I cannot help but feel well. My happiness is tied to the happiness of Nigeria and when Nigerians break records and take the name of Nigeria to greater heights it exhilarates me. Thank you Wizkid for raising Nigeria’s flag high for the positive, not the negative. Your emergence as the Best International Act at the #MOBOAwards is a proud moment for Nigeria. And the fact that you emerged over JAY-Z and Drake makes it even more celebratory. WELL DONE. GEJ.”

Senator Bruce said, “Dear @wizkidayo, I‘ve been in the entertainment business as an investor since 1980 and one of my proudest moments for Nigerian music is the day you defeated both Jayz and @Drake, two of the biggest stars in the world, to win the Best International Act at the #MOBOAwards well done.”

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Britain could extend financial support to Zimbabwe to help stabilize its economy and clear its debts💵 with international lenders but such support will be linked to ‘democratic progress, foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said.

Zimbabwe🇿🇼 owes the World Bank and the African Development Bank a combined $1,8 billion in arrears emanating from loans contracted in the 1990s, ruling out any aid from the agencies.

“Those are indeed the things that we would try to do to help Zimbabwe forward, but we’ve got to see how the democratic process unfolds,” Johnson said on the sidelines of an African Union-EU summit in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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An urgent evacuation plan has been devised for migrants facing abuse in Libyan detention camps. It was drawn up at an African Union-European Union summit in Ivory Coast.

Libya's UN-backed administration joined the agreement, but has only limited control over the territory, raising questions about how it will work in practice.

The migrants will be sent mainly back to their home countries. The move follows the publication of video footage that appeared to show migrants from sub-Saharan Africa being sold in Libya as slaves. French President Emmanuel Macron called the slave auctions a "crime against humanity".

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Scientists studying nine samples – including hair and teeth – supposedly from yetis, say the samples are not from a huge hominin but in fact mostly belonged to bears.

Just one sample, taken from a curious stuffed “yeti”, bucked the trend – the creature turned out to be a taxidermy mash-up boasting the hair of a bear and the teeth of a dog.

“It demonstrates that modern science can really try and tackle some of these mysteries and unsolved questions that we have,” said Dr Charlotte Lindqvist, an expert on bear genomics and co-author of the research from the University at Buffalo. The study is not the first time it has been suggested that the yeti might be more ursine than abominable.

A recent study, based on genetic analysis from samples purportedly from yeti-like creatures the world over, found that while most of the samples came from known animals, two from Bhutan and the Indian Himalayas were more mysterious.

The team suggested they might be from an unknown species of bear or a descendant of a hybrid of a polar and brown bear.

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Scientists studying nine samples – including hair and teeth – supposedly from yetis, say the samples are not from a huge hominin but in fact mostly belonged to bears.

Just one sample, taken from a curious stuffed “yeti”, bucked the trend – the creature turned out to be a taxidermy mash-up boasting the hair of a bear and the teeth of a dog.

“It demonstrates that modern science can really try and tackle some of these mysteries and unsolved questions that we have,” said Dr Charlotte Lindqvist, an expert on bear genomics and co-author of the research from the University at Buffalo. The study is not the first time it has been suggested that the yeti might be more ursine than abominable.

A recent study, based on genetic analysis from samples purportedly from yeti-like creatures the world over, found that while most of the samples came from known animals, two from Bhutan and the Indian Himalayas were more mysterious.

The team suggested they might be from an unknown species of bear or a descendant of a hybrid of a polar and brown bear.

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The General Secretary, Textile Union Workers, Mr Isa Aremu, said the 2019 election would be determined by the dignity of labour and commitment in payment of workers’ salary.

Aremu said this in an interview in response to government’s plan to raise workers’ salary after negotiation by the newly inaugurated 30-member committee on new minimum wage.

According to him, governors who refuse to pay the salary of workers as and when due and those who criminalise workers on account of deficiency in skill will not get workers’ votes.

He added that labour would be partisan and political in its interest, based on those who paid salary.

“Dignity of labour will not be ensured if workers are not paid when due. Workers have the right to employment,” he added. The general secretary said labour would conduct competence test for governors with a view to judging them based on their indices.

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The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District (APC), Sen. Shehu Sani, has offered scholarships to 20 students from his constituency to study various courses at the University of Khartoum, Sudan.

He disclosed this while addressing journalists at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on Wednesday shortly before their departure to Sudan.

Sani said the students were selected from the local governments that made up the Kaduna Central Senatorial district. He said, “Education is key to social and economic development, hence our decision to sponsor the students to further their studies. More so, student sponsorship is part of my campaign promises.

“We have about 40 students to benefit from similar gesture; as soon as the processes are completed, they will also go.” The lawmaker said he had also secured admission for five candidates from his constituency to study various courses at a university in China.

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The tomb in which Jesus Christ may have been buried dates back nearly 1,700 years, scientists have discovered.

Tests carried out on the remains of a limestone cave in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem, date it back to around 345 CE, National Geographic reported. Previous evidence had only dated the tomb back 1,000 years, to the Crusader period.

Although it’s impossible to definitively say whether the tomb is the burial site of a Jew known as Jesus of Nazareth, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is largely accepted as the site of Christ's burial.

The research, carried out by the National Technical University of Athens, does not offer further evidence as to whether Jesus was actually buried in the tomb, but it is consistent with the historical belief that the ancient Romans constructed a monument at the site around 300 years after his death.

The New Testament says Jesus died either in 30 or 33 CE, but historical accounts suggest the Romans found and enshrined the tomb in 326 CE.

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Melania Trump’s first White House Christmas decorating choices are getting slammed hard on Twitter.

First Lady Melania Trump, 47 oversaw all of the 2017 White House Christmas Decorations and even though she claimed to want to make the place feel warm and welcoming, the opposite came true. Stephanie Grisham, Melania’s Director of Communications shared a photo on her Twitter Account on Nov. 26 showing one of the halls decked out in pots of tall white leafless branches and backlit to face upwards, making creepy huge shadows in the otherwise darkened corridor.

“The holidays are upon us!! Right now: flotus is seeing to every last detail here at the White House,” she cheerfully captioned it. Twitter users went nuts over the pic of the scary decor that seemed more like something out of a horror movie than the warmth of the holiday season. “Are Christmas decorations supposed to give you creeping anxiety and a feeling of lingering dread?” one user asked her.

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Following several ‘save our soul’ messages from Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya, the Federal Government has responded to the maltreatment of its citizen in the country.

Nigerians numbering 242 from Libya were returned to the country on Tuesday evening. The returnees arrived at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos on Libyan Airline plane.

A recording artist, Nikki Laoye, was at the airport along with officials of National Emergency Management Agency, International Organization of Migration and National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons to receive the Libyan returnees.

The Federal Government had on Monday, promised to intervene and rescue Nigerian migrants in the North African country. In a statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said it was liaising with the Libyan officials on repatriating Nigerians from the country.

The ministry said that the mission in Libya had addressed kidnapping of Nigerians for ransom by foreigners, adding that other cases involving Nigerians who kidnapped their compatriots for ransom in Libya were equally reported to the embassy for intervention.

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Ayo “Wizkid’’ Balogun, Mary Njoku, Amaka Osakwe and Iyin Aboyeji are nominees for The Future Awards Africa’s Young Person of the Year Award, the organisers announced on Wednesday.

The award for this year is themed “Nigeria’s New Tribe’’ and will hold on December 9 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos.

Bukunyi Olateru-Olagbegi, Chairman, Central Working Committee, The Future Awards Africa, said it was to celebrate and accelerate innovation among Nigerians aged 18 to 31. She said that the TFAA acknowledges inspiring young people making a difference through social enterprise, social good and creativity.

Olateru-Olagbegi noted that the award is organised in conjunction with The Future Project which has the mandate to build and empower citizens across Africa, through inclusive enterprise and active citizenship.

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In a massive punch to Flat-earthers and the flat-earth theory, Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shared an image of a moon with a horizontal shadow over it. The caption states: “A Lunar Eclipse flat-earthers have never seen.”

Here, he allows the photo speak for itself. The primary claim in flat Earth theory, of course, is that it is flat.

During a typical lunar eclipse, we look to the sky to see the moon go entirely dark a consequence of the Earth’s shadow obstructing light from the sun from approaching the moon. This is likely because the Earth is both round and massive.

If the Earth were flat, the shadow it would cast on the moon’s surface when it got among the Sun and the moon would, in turn, look flat, as it does in Tyson’s photo. This, apparently, is never going to occur.

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Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or the Alma telescope, the researchers spotted signs of as many as 11 low-mass stars forming near supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, according to a release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

These early-stage stars or protostars are nearly 6,000 years old and are in the formative stage – a phase in which they are no more a dense cloud of dust and gas but are yet to transform into a shining, young star.

Extremely turbulent environments and intense radiation from black holes like this are capable of disrupting the star formation process.

However, the presence of these protostars suggests that the conditions required for star formation may exist even in some of the hostile regions of our galaxy and universe.

"This is a genuinely surprising result and one that demonstrates just how robust star formation can be, even in the most unlikely of places." Though it is still unclear how these stars are forming, astronomers speculate that outside forces like high-velocity gas clouds or jets from the black hole itself could have helped in overcoming the violent nature of the region and triggering the star formation.

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1777 – El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civil settlement in the Spanish colony of Alta California, was founded as a farming community.

1807 – Maria I of Portugal (pictured), the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people departed Lisbon for the colony of Brazil just days before Napoleonic forces invaded.

1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.

1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 exploded over the Andaman Sea after two North Korean agents left a time bomb in an overhead compartment, killing all 115 people on board.

2007 – Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes, on trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, staged a mutiny and temporarily seized a conference room in The Peninsula Manila hotel.

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It's been a busy couple of days on Twitter 🐦 for President Trump, praising his daughter, touting the economy's growth (over and over again) and also sharing racist videos that vilify Muslims.

🐦 Remarks from the Roosevelt Room with SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell, SpeakerRyan and Secretary of Defense, General James Mattis.

🐦 Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all finished the day at new RECORD HIGHS!

🐦 “The Conference Board said that consumer sentiment was at its highest level in nearly 17 years in November. The Consumer Confidence Index rose from 126.2 in October to 129.5, notching its best reading since December 2000...”

🐦 ➿ Narendra Modi: Had a wonderful meeting with IvankaTrump, advisor to POTUS and leader of the US delegation at the GES2017.

🐦 After North Korea missile launch, it's more important than ever to fund our gov't & military! Dems shouldn't hold troop funding hostage for amnesty & illegal immigration. I ran on stopping illegal immigration and won big. They can't now threaten a shutdown to get their demands.

Earlier this year, Trump announced 🔉 he was rescinding the Obama-era policy, which has allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented migrants that came to the US children to work and go to school without fear of deportation. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have refused to support new government spending measures unless they include a deal to protect young migrants at risk of deportation.

🐦 Charles McCullough, the respected fmr Intel Comm Inspector General, said public was misled on Crooked Hillary Emails. “Emails endangered National Security.” Why aren’t our deep State authorities looking at this? Rigged & corrupt? TuckerCarlson seanhannity

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Monday, former Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough III said he suffered "personal blowback" over his pursuit of the email investigation. McCullough claimed the Clinton campaign put out word that he would be fired if the Democratic nominee won last year's presidential election. "I’m well aware there was strategic coordination between the [Clinton] campaign, the State Department, certain officials in the State Department, certain law firms in [Washington D.C.] and people on Capitol Hill and I think that bore itself out in the Podesta emails," McCullough told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

🐦 Just won the lawsuit on leadership of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB. A big win for the Consumer!

This tweet comes after Senate Republicans cleared a key hurdle in their effort to reform the tax code when the Senate Budget Committee voted to advance the bill on a party-line vote.

🐦 Great work Ivanka!

Trump retweeted the State Department which said that Ivanka's comments on US efforts to fuel entrepreneurship so that Americans can turn their dreams into incredible legacies.

🐦 Great day for Tax Cuts and the Republican Party. But the biggest Winner will be our great Country!

🐦 MakeAmericaGreatAgain

🐦 .foxandfriends, we are in record territory in all things having to do with our economy!

🐦 ➿ Jayda Fransen: VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!

President Trump on Wednesday shared three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on Twitter posted by a far-right British activist, drawing backlash from across Britain, including a sharp rebuke from the British prime minister's office. The videos — whose authenticity could not be independently verified — were first shared by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, which bills itself as a political party but has been widely condemned as an extremist group that targets mosques and Muslims.

🐦 ➿ Jayda Fransen: VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!

🐦 ➿ Jayda Fransen: VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to why the president retweeted Fransen’s provocative and unverified videos. It was not immediately clear how the videos came to Trump's attention, but conservative columnist Ann Coulter, whom Trump follows on Twitter, retweeted one of them on Tuesday.

🐦 Great, and we should boycott Fake News CNN. Dealing with them is a total waste of time!

President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested boycotting CNN after it announced it would not be attending the White House Christmas Party.

🐦 Looks like another great day for the Stock Market. Consumer Confidence is at Record High. I guess somebody likes me (my policies)!

🐦 Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack’s past!

Today show co-host Matt Lauer was fired Wednesday due to inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace, an incident "Today" honchos said they learned about just two days ago.

🐦 So now that Matt Lauer is gone when will the Fake News practitioners at NBC be terminating the contract of Phil Griffin? And will they terminate low ratings Joe Scarborough based on the “unsolved mystery” that took place in Florida years ago? Investigate!

Trump was referencing Lori Klausutis, 28-year-old office staffer who worked for Scarborough when he was a representative from Florida. Klausutis was found dead in the congressman’s district office in July 2001. A local medical examiner ruled the death an accident, saying Klausutis had collapsed and hit her head on the side of a desk. She had an undiagnosed heart condition, according to the medical examiner, and the head trauma caused a fatal blood clot. Klausutis had worked for Scarborough since May 1999, according to Scarborough's press secretary at the time. Scarborough currently hosts MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and has been a vocal and persistent critic of the president.

🐦 Just spoke to President XI JINPING of China concerning the provocative actions of North Korea. Additional major sanctions will be imposed on North Korea today. This situation will be handled!

Trump didn't immediately say who would be imposing the sanctions, or what they would entail. The United States 🇺🇸 has already restricted trade, frozen assets and banned travel to and from North Korea 🇰🇵. White House and Treasury officials did not immediately explain the president's remarks.

Economy growing! Excluding hurricane effects, CEA estimates that real GDP growth would have been 3.9% in Q3. Stock market at a new high, unemployment at a low. We are winning and TAX CUTS will shift our economy into high gear!

According to the newest government estimate, the U.S. economy, the world's largest, advanced 📈 at a brisk 3.3 percent pace in the July-to-September period. Trump noted that the Council of Economic Advisers said that absent the effect of several devastating hurricanes in the U.S. the growth would have been 3.9 percent

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A German court has rejected the appeal of a former Auschwitz guard against serving his sentence on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder.

The Celle state court ruled that Oskar Groening was in good enough health to serve his four years in prison. But his attorney said he'd pursue further action to keep the 96-year-old free and the court said it wasn't clear when he might be jailed.

Groening, an SS sergeant dubbed the "accountant of Auschwitz" for his role overseeing the collection of prisoners' belongings and sending valuables and cash to Berlin, was convicted in 2015.

His conviction was upheld by a federal court last year. During his trial, Groening said he felt a "moral guilt" for serving at Auschwitz but wasn't personally involved in mass murder.

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Two US citizens are being held in Thailand after they posted an online picture of themselves posing with their buttocks exposed at a temple.

The tourists had taken the picture at Bangkok's famous Wat Arun temple and posted it on Twitter and Instagram. Immigration authorities told the BBC the pair, Joseph and Travis Dasilva, both 38, would be fined and deported.

Thailand has very strict laws on behaviour considered disrespectful and offensive to its Buddhist religion. The two tourists were held late on Tuesday when trying to leave the country at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport.

They will also be blacklisted from coming back to Thailand. The two were brought to Bangkok Yai police station to be charged with public nakedness, an offence liable for a fine of up to 5,000 baht ($153; £115). However, Thai government and police officials have told media that the charges could be more serious.

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South Sudan has ended the use of CE, EE, SSJS, UNS, WS and NBGS number plates and unveiled a new series. The country has launched the new series of nationalised country code SSD, the National Transport and Safety Authority announced on Wednesday.

These will be the only numbers the country will recognise after registration from December 13. "All parties concerned should ensure they acquire the new number plates from the Southern Sudan government before the deadline," the notice read.

On November 7, NTSA outlawed car registration series banned in South Sudan. The country had varied registration codes from 2005 to March when the government introduced a unified country code.

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Barcelona have targeted Chelsea star Willian as an alternative should they fail in their attempts to sign Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool, as per reports.

The Catalan side saw their approaches for Coutinho knocked back by Liverpool in the summer as the Anfield side demanded €200 million for him.

The 25-year-old, however, handed in a transfer request to the Anfield club and Barca are expected to return for him in January.

Willian, 29, and Coutinho share an agent in Giuliano Bertolucci, who played a key role in negotiating Paulinho's move from Guangzhou Evergrande, and the Camp Nou outfit are hoping he can help deliver at least one of their top options.

Willian has been in and out of Antonio Conte's starting XI this season, but has scored four goals in 20 appearances across all competitions.

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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, had said Nigerian roads were not as bad as many people were claiming; rather, he stated that the roads needed to be adequately maintained.

He, however, noted that some of the roads had outlived their design life, some still within their design life, while others were being built.

Fashola stated these in his keynote address at the United Nations-sponsored capacity building programme for the Federal Road Safety Corps, which was made available to our correspondent in Abuja by his ministry.

He said roads that had outlived their design life should have been replaced and rebuilt, but they had not, and named the Calabar-Itu-Odukpani road as falling within this category.

The minister stated, “They were built in the 1970s, and not only have they outlived their design life, they have had to deal with tonnage and capacities well beyond what their design intended. Can such a road be truly expected to stay intact and deliver a pleasant motoring experience?

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Everton have hired Sam Allardyce as manager, ending a prolonged search following the October sacking of Ronald Koeman.

The Toffees announced that Allardyce will finalise terms at the club's USM Finch Farm training ground on Wednesday. Caretaker manager David Unsworth will remain in charge for Everton's match against West Ham on Wednesday night at Goodison Park.

Allardyce is returning to management six months after resigning from his post at Crystal Palace, having said at the time that he had "no ambitions to take another job."

But the former West Ham, Sunderland and England manager had an apparent change of heart, openly expressing interest in the United States job in recent weeks before ultimately taking over at Goodison Park.

The news comes after Everton failed in their attempts to hire Watford manager Marco Silva, with Shakhtar Donetsk's Paulo Fonseca and Ireland's Martin O'Neill among the names also linked to the job.

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Pope Francis visit to Myanmar was planned well before the Rohingya refugee crisis erupted in August. 

The visit was intended to upgrade diplomatic ties between the Holy See and Myanmar, and to enhance the status of the small Roman Catholic community in the country, many of whom come from other vulnerable minorities.

The Pope was visiting as much as a diplomat and statesman as he was a moral leader. In the end, he let pragmatic considerations prevail over the expectation that he speak out against the treatment of Rohingya. His Keynote speech was delivered in Naypyitaw, the new capital that was hewn out of the bush by a paranoid military regime a decade ago and is still the seat of power in Myanmar. 

It was easy to spot the thinly-veiled references to the plight of the Rohingya; the need to "ensure respect for the rights of all who call this land their home", to build a democratic order which "enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution". 

But by avoiding the name Rohingya, Pope Francis headed off an angry reaction from hard-line Buddhist nationalists, and any embarrassment for Aung San Suu Kyi, who hosted him in Naypyitaw.

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The lawmaker representing Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has described the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, as fictitious.

The debate on the 2018 budget proposal started on a dramatic note at the plenary on Tuesday when the first speaker, Abaribe, dismissed the 2018 budget proposal as “fictitious.” The Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, however, retorted by raising a point of order to fault Abaribe for describing a bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari as “fictitious.” Lawan urged the lawmaker to withdraw the word “fictitious” and use another word that was “parliamentary and acceptable.”

Withdrawing the word, Abaribe, however, insisted on his position, saying, “I am just quoting the Senate Leader from his speech, which said in the 2018 budget was designed to consolidate on the achievements of the 2016 and 2017 budgets. What was done in 2017 when less than 15 percent of that budget was released. Nothing was done and that was why I called it (2018 budget proposal) fictitious.”

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The Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC), has charged university of Ilorin to be the first digitalized university in Nigeria.

Mr. Amadi, the Telecommunication expert, in his lecture said,  "The world has gone from analog to digital, and we want Unilorin to became the first smart (digital) university in Nigeria."

He stated that, the goal of NCC is to make Nigeria a digitalized country, adding that the conventional meaning of illiteracy has gone beyond the ability to read and write, to ones ability to operate digital technology and emerging technology.

In his lecture, he stated the 2017 "key drive" for NCC to be; To tell customers the quality of service NCC delivers, to educate customers on the effect of electromagnetic field, to introduce a new service code DND and to educate customers on how to contact the NCC service line for complain.

He stated that, texting STOP to the Do Not Disturb code (DND 2442) will cancel all unsolicited messages on a network provider, and customers can reach NCC via 622.

Amadi reported that, Base Transceiver Stations (Mast) does not cause any harm to human health.

According to him, this findings has been confirmed by various researches by WHO (www.who.factsheet/emf) and International Commission on Non Ionised Radiation Protection (ICNRIP.org).

He further stated that, the protection of telecommunication infrastructure must be protect by consumers for quality service deliveries, as NCC is committed to checking the excess of all network providers in the country, through sanctions and other means.

The Ibadan Zonal Controller of the Commission, Olubunmi Bamijoko, said the commission recognises customers as the king and the aim of NCC is to enlighten customers.

He said, "It is our duty to provide relevant information to customers."

According to the representative of the Vice Chancellor, DVC Academics, Prof. NYS Ijaya, said this is a forum many of us have been looking forward to.

The Registrar, in his closing remark, reported that, initially we taught one network was doing well than another, but we discovered all are doing well.

He further, appreciated everyone present at the event, stating that, "We hope all promises made will be met, so you cab serve Us Better."



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Scientists have recently observed humpback male dolphins in the region presenting females with large marine sponges in the hope of impressing them. 

They also observed male humpback dolphins acting as "wingmen" for each other-- this type of male cooperation is unusual in dolphins given that paternity can't be shared. 
This is the first time this level of social complexity has been observed in dolphins.

There are three possible reasons for this behavior, he said: "It's gift giving, it's a signal of his fitness (so) quality as a mate, or it's a threat to coerce her into mating with him."

Some male dolphins even adopt the "banana pose," whereby a big male will lie at the water surface with his head and tail arched up -- almost as if he is flexing his muscles.

Previous research conducted on the bottle-nose dolphins of Shark Bay indicates "these male alliances are generally very tight units, and even when they are following a female, they spend most of their time petting and touching each other, reinforcing that love is love, no matter what the sex or the species," said Allen.

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Embattled former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, has finally broken silence on the allegations of corruption levelled against him.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Channels Television which aired during News At 10 on Monday, Mr Maina insisted that he was innocent of the allegations preferred against him.

He, however, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to give him an opportunity to prove his innocence, claiming that the President was being deceived by the people who surround him.

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Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president's birthday a public holiday, the Herald newspaper reports.

New President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to form a cabinet this week. Mr Mugabe resigned last week after a military intervention and days of mass protests.

Calls for the former president's birthday to be made a national holiday were adopted by the government in August, following intense lobbying by the Zanu-PF Youth League, the Herald reports. The decision was officially recorded on Friday, it adds.

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Former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden criticized President Donald Trump's attack of CNN over the weekend, saying he could not believe a President was capable of "such an outrageous assault" on a free press or the First Amendment.

The retired United States Air Force four-star general, who is now is a CNN national security analyst, served under the past three administrations. "If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life," Hayden tweeted over the weekend. "Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."

Trump tweeted his approval of Fox News and condemnation for CNN International Saturday, saying the network poorly represents the nation and is untrustworthy to the outside world. 

"Fox News is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly," the President said.

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Just two weeks after announcing his retirement from international duty, legendary goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had admitted he could play for the Italy national team again. 

Buffon bid a tearful farewell to the Azzurri on November 13, just minutes after Italy fell to Sweden in a two-leg playoff and failed to reach the World Cup for the first time since 1958.

The 39-year-old has now admitted he could return for Italy at some point.

"I took a break from the national team," Buffon said at the Gran Gala del Calcio in Milan on Monday. "Both for Juventus and for the national team I have always considered myself a soldier. Even when I'm 60 I could never turn down any call because I have in me the concept of nation."

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The glow from a ring of incandescent red lava in the crater of Bali’s Mount Agung is clearly visible, as the likelihood of a large eruption on the popular holiday island continues to grow.

The burnt orange glow atop Mount Agung could be easily seen at night and in the thick ash column that Indonesia’s disaster agency said was being sent nearly two miles (3km) into the atmosphere.

“We could see the magma tonight,” Nyoman Karyiarsa, a resident of Rendang village, told the Guardian on Monday evening. “From 7 pm to 8 pm, we could see a bright red colour from the crater, but it hasn’t come out yet.” The Rendang monitoring post registered powerful and continuous tremors at about 2 pm on Tuesday in Bali, with locals and journalists told to evacuate. The last big eruption in 1963 was preceded by continuous tremors.

About 100,000 people in 22 villages within a six-mile red zone around the volcano have been told to leave immediately.

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Declaration of Independence of Albania (1912)

1470 – Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Annam (Vietnam) launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.

1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society (coat of arms pictured).

1895 – The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago.

1971 – Prime Minister of Jordan Wasfi al-Tal was assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cairo.

1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board.

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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korean media say, quoting military officials. 

The news was confirmed by a US government source, according to Reuters news agency. 

South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that the missile flew eastward from Pyongsong in South Pyongan province. 

It is not clear how far it went or whether it flew over Japan as other missiles did earlier this year. 
North Korea has test fired several other missiles this year, including its first intercontinental ballistic missiles, as tensions increase over its nuclear programme. 

South Korean and US authorities are working together to analyse the latest missile's trajectory, according to a statement from South Korean military chiefs. It is unclear what range it had.

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2018 Grammy nominations are here! On Tuesday (Nov. 28), Andra Day revealed the Big 4 categories -- best new artist, record of the year, song of the year, and album of the year -- live on CBS This Morning, and shortly thereafter, the Recording Academy announced the nominees in all 84 categories.

JAY-Z leads the pack with eight nominations this year, including nods for album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best rap album. Kendrick Lamar follows with seven nods, while Bruno Mars is the third most-nominated artist with six. SZA is 2018's most Grammy-nominated woman with five nods; Khalid, Childish Gambino and producer No I.D. also scored five noms.

Best New Artist: 

Alessia Cara 
Khalid 
Lil Uzi Vert 
Julia Michaels 
SZA

POP FIELD

Best Pop Solo Performance:
“Love So Soft” — Kelly Clarkson 
“Praying” — Kesha 
“Million Reasons” — Lady Gaga 
“What About Us” — P!nk 
“Shape Of You” — Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
“Something Just Like This” — The Chainsmokers & Coldplay 
“Despacito” — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber 
“Thunder” — Imagine Dragons 
“Feel It Still” — Portugal. The Man 
“Stay” — Zedd & Alessia Cara

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:
Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version) — Michael Bublé 
Triplicate — Bob Dylan 
In Full Swing — Seth MacFarlane 
Wonderland — Sarah McLachlan 
Tony Bennett Celebrates 90 — (Various Artists) Dae Bennett, Producer

Best Pop Vocal Album:
Kaleidoscope EP — Coldplay 
Lust For Life — Lana Del Rey 
Evolve — Imagine Dragons 
Rainbow — Kesha 
Joanne — Lady Gaga 
÷ (Divide) — Ed Sheeran

DANCE/ELECTRONIC FIELD

Best Dance Recording:
“Bambro Koyo Ganda” — Bonobo Featuring Innov Gnawa 
“Cola” — Camelphat & Elderbrook 
“Andromeda” — Gorillaz Featuring DRAM 
“Tonite” — LCD Soundsystem 
“Line Of Sight” — Odesza Featuring WYNNE & Mansionair

Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Migration — Bonobo 
3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk 
Mura Masa — Mura Masa 
A Moment Apart — Odesza 
What Now — Sylvan Esso

CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL FIELD

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album:
What If — The Jerry Douglas Band 
Spirit — Alex Han 
Mount Royal — Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge 
Prototype — Jeff Lorber Fusion 
Bad Hombre — Antonio Sanchez 

ROCK FIELD

Best Rock Performance: 
“You Want It Darker” — Leonard Cohen 
“The Promise” — Chris Cornell 
“Run” — Foo Fighters 
“No Good” — Kaleo 
“Go To War” — Nothing More

Best Metal Performance: 
“Invisible Enemy” — August Burns Red 
“Black Hoodie” — Body Count 
“Forever” — Code Orange 
“Sultan’s Curse” — Mastodon 
“Clockworks” — Meshuggah

Best Rock Song:
“Atlas, Rise!” — James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica) 
“Blood In The Cut” — JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, songwriters (K.Flay) 
“Go To War” — Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, songwriters (Nothing More) 
“Run” — Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters) 
“The Stage” — Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold)

Best Rock Album:
Emperor Of Sand — Mastodon 
Hardwired…To Self-Destruct — Metallica 
The Stories We Tell Ourselves — Nothing More 
Villains — Queens Of The Stone Age 
A Deeper Understanding — The War On Drugs

ALTERNATIVE FIELD

Best Alternative Music Album: 
Everything Now — Arcade Fire 
Humanz — Gorillaz 
American Dream — LCD Soundsystem 
Pure Comedy — Father John Misty 
Sleep Well Beast — The National

R&B FIELD

Best R&B Performance:
“Get You” — Daniel Caesar Featuring Kali Uchis 
“Distraction” — Kehlani 
“High” — Ledisi 
“That’s What I Like” — Bruno Mars 
“The Weekend” — SZA

Best Traditional R&B Performance: 
“Laugh And Move On” — The Baylor Project 
“Redbone” — Childish Gambino 
“What I’m Feelin'” — Anthony Hamilton Featuring The Hamiltones| 
“All The Way” — Ledisi 
“Still” — Mali Music

Best R&B Song: 
“First Began” — PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton) 
“Location” — Alfredo Gonzalez, Olatunji Ige, Samuel David Jiminez, Christopher McClenney, Khalid Robinson & Joshua Scruggs, songwriters (Khalid) 
“Redbone” — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino) 
“Supermodel” — Tyran Donaldson, Terrence Henderson, Greg Landfair Jr., Solana Rowe & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (SZA) 
“That’s What I Like” — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best Urban Contemporary Album:
Free 6LACK — 6LACK 
“Awaken, My Love!” — Childish Gambino 
American Teen — Khalid 
Ctrl — SZA 
Starboy — The Weeknd

Best R&B Album:
Freudian — Daniel Caesar 
Let Love Rule — Ledisi 
24K Magic — Bruno Mars 
Gumbo — PJ Morton 
Feel The Real –Musiq Soulchild

RAP FIELD

Best Rap Performance:
“Bounce Back” — Big Sean 
“Bodak Yellow” — Cardi B 
“4:44” — Jay-Z 
“HUMBLE.” — Kendrick Lamar 
“Bad And Boujee” — Migos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert

Best Rap/Sung Performance: 
“PRBLMS” — 6LACK 
“Crew” — Goldlink Featuring Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy 
“Family Feud” — Jay-Z Featuring Beyoncé 
“LOYALTY.” — Kendrick Lamar Featuring Rihanna 
“Love Galore” — SZA Featuring Travis Scott

Best Rap Song: 
“Bodak Yellow” — Dieuson Octave, Klenord Raphael, Shaftizm, Jordan Thorpe, Washpoppin & J White, songwriters (Cardi B) 
“Chase Me” — Judah Bauer, Brian Burton, Hector Delgado, Jaime Meline, Antwan Patton, Michael Render, Russell Simins & Jon Spencer, 
songwriters (Danger Mouse Featuring Run The Jewels & Big Boi) 
“HUMBLE.” — Duckworth, Asheton Hogan & M. Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar) 
“Sassy” — Gabouer & M. Evans, songwriters (Rapsody) 
“The Story Of O.J.” — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (Jay-Z)

Best Rap Album: 
4:44 — Jay-Z 
DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar 
Culture — Migos 
Laila’s Wisdom — Rapsody 
Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator

COUNTRY FIELD

Best Country Solo Performance:
“Body Like A Back Road” — Sam Hunt 
“Losing You: –Alison Krauss 
“Tin Man” — Miranda Lambert 
“I Could Use A Love Song” — Maren Morris 
“Either Way” — Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance:
“It Ain’t My Fault” — Brothers Osborne 
“My Old Man” — Zac Brown Band 
“You Look Good” — Lady Antebellum 
“Better Man” — Little Big Town 
“Drinkin’ Problem” — Midland

Best Country Song:
“Better Man” — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Little Big Town) 
“Body Like A Back Road” — Zach Crowell, Sam Hunt, Shane McAnally & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Sam Hunt) 
“Broken Halos” — Mike Henderson & Chris Stapleton, songwriters (Chris Stapleton) 
“Drinkin’ Problem” — Jess Carson, Cameron Duddy, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne & Mark Wystrach, songwriters (Midland) 
“Tin Man” — Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall, songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Album: 
Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney 
Heart Break — Lady Antebellum 
The Breaker — Little Big Town 
Life Changes — Thomas Rhett 
From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton

NEW AGE FIELD

Best New Age Album: 
Reflection — Brian Eno 
SongVersation: Medicine — India.Arie 
Dancing On Water — Peter Kater 
Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai, Volume 5 — Kitaro 
Spiral Revelation — Steve Roach

JAZZ FIELD

Best Improvised Jazz Solo:
“Can’t Remember Why” — Sara Caswell, soloist 
“Dance Of Shiva” — Billy Childs, soloist 
“Whisper Not” — Fred Hersch, soloist 
“Miles Beyond” — John McLaughlin, soloist 
“Ilimba” — Chris Potter, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album:
The Journey — The Baylor Project 
A Social Call — Jazzmeia Horn 
Bad Ass And Blind — Raul Midón 
Porter Plays Porter — Randy Porter Trio With Nancy King 
Dreams And Daggers — Cécile McLorin Salvant

Best Jazz Instrumental Album:
Uptown, Downtown — Bill Charlap Trio 
Rebirth — Billy Childs 
Project Freedom –Joey DeFrancesco & The People 
Open Book — Fred Hersch 
The Dreamer Is The Dream — Chris Potter

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album:
MONK’estra Vol. 2 — John Beasley 
Jigsaw — Alan Ferber Big Band 
Bringin’ It — Christian McBride Big Band 
Homecoming — Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne 
Whispers On The Wind — Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge

Best Latin Jazz Album:
Hybrido – From Rio To Wayne Shorter — Antonio Adolfo 
Oddara — Jane Bunnett & Maqueque 
Outra Coisa – The Music Of Moacir Santos — Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves 
Típico — Miguel Zenón 
Jazz Tango — Pablo Ziegler Trio

AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC FIELD

Best Bluegrass Album:
Fiddler’s Dream — Michael Cleveland 
Laws Of Gravity — The Infamous Stringdusters 
Original — Bobby Osborne 
Universal Favorite — Noam Pikelny 
All The Rage – In Concert Volume One [Live] — Rhonda Vincent And The Rage

Best Traditional Blues Album:
Migration Blues — Eric Bibb 
Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio — Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio 
Roll And Tumble — R.L. Boyce 
Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train — Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi 
Blue & Lonesome — The Rolling Stones

Best Contemporary Blues Album: 
Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm — Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm 
Recorded Live In Lafayette — Sonny Landreth 
TajMo — Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ 
Got Soul — Robert Randolph & The Family Band 
Live From The Fox Oakland — Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Folk Album:
Mental Illness — Aimee Mann 
Semper Femina — Laura Marling 
The Queen Of Hearts — Offa Rex 
You Don’t Own Me Anymore — The Secret Sisters 
The Laughing Apple — Yusuf / Cat Stevens

REGGAE FIELD

Best Reggae Album: 
Chronology — Chronixx 
Lost In Paradise — Common Kings 
Wash House Ting — J Boog 
Stony Hill — Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley 
Avrakedabra — Morgan Heritage

WORLD MUSIC FIELD

Best World Music Album: 
Memoria De Los Sentidos — Vicente Amigo 
Para Mi — Buika 
Rosa Dos Ventos — Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro 
Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration — Ladysmith Black Mambazo 
Elwan — Tinariwen

CHILDREN’S FIELD

Best Children’s Album: 
Brighter Side — Gustafer Yellowgold 
Feel What U Feel — Lisa Loeb 
Lemonade — Justin Roberts 
Rise Shine #Woke — Alphabet Rockers 
Songs Of Peace & Love For Kids & Parents Around The World — Ladysmith Black Mambazo

SPOKEN WORD FIELD

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): 
Astrophysics For People In A Hurry — Neil Degrasse Tyson 
Born To Run — Bruce Springsteen 
Confessions Of A Serial Songwriter — Shelly Peiken 
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders) — Bernie Sanders And Mark Ruffalo 
The Princess Diarist — Carrie Fisher

COMEDY FIELD

Best Comedy Album: 
The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle 
Cinco — Jim Gaffigan 
Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld 
A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman 
What Now? — Kevin Hart

MUSICAL THEATER FIELD

Best Musical Theater Album: 
Come From Away — Ian Eisendrath, August Eriksmoen, David Hein, David Lai & Irene Sankoff, producers; David Hein & Irene Sankoff, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) 
Dear Evan Hansen — Ben Platt, principal soloist; Alex Lacamoire, Stacey Mindich, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, producers; Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) 
Hello, Dolly! — Bette Midler, principal soloist; Steven Epstein, producer (Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist) (New Broadway Cast Recording)

MUSIC FOR VISUAL MEDIA FIELD

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Baby Driver — (Various Artists) 
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 — (Various Artists) 
Hidden Figures: The Album — (Various Artists) 
La La Land — (Various Artists) 
Moana: The Songs — (Various Artists)

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media:
Arrival — Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer 
Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer, composer 
Game Of Thrones: Season 7 — Ramin Djawadi, composer 
Hidden Figures — Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer, composers 
La La Land — Justin Hurwitz, composer

Best Song Written For Visual Media:
“City Of Stars” — Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone) 
“How Far I’ll Go” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli’i Cravalho) 
“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (‘Fifty Shades Darker’)” — Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Zayn & Taylor Swift) 
“Never Give Up” — Sia Furler & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia) 
“Stand Up For Something” — Common & Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common)

COMPOSING/ ARRANGING FIELD

Best Instrumental Composition:
“Alkaline” — Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Le Boeuf Brothers & JACK Quartet) 
“Choros #3” — Vince Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne) 
“Home Free (For Peter Joe)” — Nate Smith, composer (Nate Smith) 
“Three Revolutions” — Arturo O’Farrill, composer (Arturo O’Farrill & Chucho Valdés) 
“Warped Cowboy” — Chuck Owen, composer (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella:
“All Hat, No Saddle” — Chuck Owen, arranger (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge) 
“Escapades For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra From Catch Me If You Can” — John Williams, arranger (John Williams) 
“Home Free (For Peter Joe)” — Nate Smith, arranger (Nate Smith) 
“Ugly Beauty/Pannonica” — John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley) 
“White Christmas” — Chris Walden, arranger (Herb Alpert)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals:
“Another Day Of Sun” — Justin Hurwitz, arranger (La La Land Cast) 
“Every Time We Say Goodbye” — Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Clint Holmes Featuring Jane Monheit) 
“I Like Myself” — Joel McNeely, arranger (Seth MacFarlane) 
“I Loves You Porgy/There’s A Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon For New York” — Shelly Berg, Gregg Field, Gordon Goodwin & Clint Holmes, arrangers (Clint Holmes Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater And The Count Basie Orchestra) 
“Putin” — Randy Newman, arranger (Randy Newman)

PACKAGE FIELD

Best Recording Package:
El Orisha De La Rosa — Claudio Roncoli & Cactus Taller, art directors (Magín Díaz) 
Mura Masa — Alex Crossan & Matt De Jong, art directors (Mura Masa) 
Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) — Sasha Barr, Ed Steed & Josh Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty) 
Sleep Well Beast — Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman & Andrea Trabucco-Campos, art directors (The National) 
Solid State — Gail Marowitz, art director (Jonathan Coulton)

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package:
Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta — Tim Breen, art director (Various Artists) 
Lovely Creatures: The Best Of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds (1984 – 2014) — Tom Hingston, art director (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds) 
May 1977: Get Shown The Light — Masaki Koike, art director (Grateful Dead) 
The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition — Lawrence Azerrad, Timothy Daly & David Pescovitz, art directors (Various Artists) 
Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares — Tim Breen, Benjamin Marra & Ken Shipley, art directors (Various Artists)

NOTES FIELD

Best Album Notes:
Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With The Truth — Wayne Bledsoe & Bradley Reeves, album notes writers (Various Artists) 
Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition — Ted Olson, album notes writer (Various Artists) 
The Complete Piano Works Of Scott Joplin — Bryan S. Wright, album notes writer (Richard Dowling) 
Edouard-Léon Scott De Martinville, Inventor Of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute — David Giovannoni, album notes writer (Various Artists) 
Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings — Lynell George, album notes writer (Otis Redding) 
Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams — Michael Corcoran, album notes writer (Washington Phillips)

HISTORICAL FIELD

Best Historical Album: 
Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque In Upper Volta — Jon Kirby, Florent Mazzoleni, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton & Maria Rice, mastering engineers (Various Artists) 
The Goldberg Variations – The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955 — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Matthias Erb, Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Glenn Gould) 
Leonard Bernstein – The Composer — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Leonard Bernstein) 
Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes From The Horn Of Africa — Nicolas Sheikholeslami & Vik Sohonie, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) 
Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams — Michael Corcoran, April G. Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Washington Phillips)

PRODUCTION, NON-CLASSICAL FIELD

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical:
Every Where Is Some Where — Brent Arrowood, Miles Comaskey, JT Daly, Tommy English, Kristine Flaherty, Adam Hawkins, Chad Howat & Tony Maserati, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (K.Flay) 
Is This The Life We Really Want? — Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies & Darrell Thorp, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Roger Waters) 
Natural Conclusion — Ryan Freeland, engineer; Joao Carvalho, mastering engineer (Rose Cousins) 
No Shape — Shawn Everett & Joseph Lorge, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Perfume Genius) 
24K Magic — Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, engineers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer (Bruno Mars)

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical:
Calvin Harris 
Greg Kurstin 
Blake Mills 
No I.D. 
The Stereotypes

Best Remixed Recording:
“Can’t Let You Go (Louie Vega Roots Mix)” — Louie Vega, remixer (Loleatta Holloway) 
“Funk O’ De Funk (SMLE Remix)” — SMLE, remixers (Bobby Rush) 
“Undercover (Adventure Club Remix)” — Leighton James & Christian Srigley, remixers (Kehlani) 
“A Violent Noise (Four Tet Remix)” — Four Tet, remixer (The xx) 
“You Move (Latroit Remix)” — Dennis White, remixer (Depeche Mode)

SURROUND SOUND FIELD

Best Surround Sound Album: 
Early Americans — Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Jim Anderson & Jane Ira Bloom, surround producers (Jane Ira Bloom) 
Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man — Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra And Choir) 
So Is My Love — Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96) 
3-D The Catalogue — Fritz Hilpert, surround mix engineer; Tom Ammermann, surround mastering engineer; Fritz Hilpert, surround producer (Kraftwerk) 
Tyberg: Masses — Jesse Brayman, surround mix engineer; Jesse Brayman, surround mastering engineer; Blanton Alspaugh, surround producer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

PRODUCTION, CLASSICAL FIELD

Best Engineered Album, Classical:
Danielpour: Songs Of Solitude & War Songs — Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) 
Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man — Morten Lindberg, engineer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) 
Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies — Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) 
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio — Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) 
Tyberg: Masses — John Newton, engineer; Jesse Brayman, mastering engineer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Producer Of The Year, Classical: 
Blanton Alspaugh 
Manfred Eicher 
David Frost 
Morten Lindberg 
Judith Sherman

MUSIC VIDEO/FILM FIELD

Best Music Video:
“Up All Night” — Beck 
“Makeba” — Jain 
“The Story Of O.J.” — Jay-Z 
“Humble.” — Kendrick Lamar 
“1-800-273-8255” — Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid

Best Music Film:
“One More Time With Feeling” — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 
“Long Strange Trip” — (The Grateful Dead) 
“The Defiant Ones” — (Various Artists) 
“Soundbreaking” — (Various Artists) 
“Two Trains Runnin'” — (Various Artists)

UCJ, UNILORIN.