Author: Kelvin Funkeye

The Government is dedicating GH¢1 billion to fix traffic lights, erect road signs and paint defaced road markings to improve road safety. This part of the recommendation by the inter-ministerial committee set up by President Akufo-Addo last year to look into the increasing cases of carnages on the country’s roads. The committee also recommended that ¢6.5 million be allocated to the National Road Safety Commission for public education and training.  Executive Director of the Commission…

President Muhammadu Buhari has received the final report on the implementation of the N30, 000 new minimum wage for Nigeria’s federal and state civil servants. The report was presented to the President on Monday by the Bismarck Rewane-led Technical Advisory Committee at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari had on January 9 inaugurated the advisory committee chaired by an economist and financial expert, Bismarck Rewane on the implementation of the new minimum wage. Below is the…

A light earthquake hit several counties in Kenyan on Sunday, including Nairobi, Nyeri, Mombasa, Machakos, Makueni, Tharaka Nithi, Taita Taveta and Kiambu. The earth tremors were experienced on Sunday evening at about 7pm and lasted for several seconds. The Kenya Meteorological Department confirmed the earthquake in a phone call to NTV Kenya but said there is no cause for alarm. According to the www.earthquaketrack.com, a 4.8 magnitude quake hit Wundanyi in Taita Taveta County at…

Embattled R&B singer, R. Kelly, has asked a judge to let him travel to the Dubai to perform at several concerts, saying he has struggled to get work in the US and he’s in need of money to help pay his mounting legal fees and child support bills.  The 52-year-old singer through his attorney Steve Greenberg filed a motion asking a judge to allow the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer to travel for work in Dubai. Greenberg is expected…

Police operatives have arrested a man for selling his baby daughter online for £6,800 to pay off his gambling debts. Named only as Jiang, the heartless father sold the one-year-old to a couple after racking up debts of more than 60,000 Yuan (£6,798), according to reports in China. He flew her more than 1,150 miles away from their home in Guiyang, Guizhou province, last November after lying to his wife about needing to stay with…

A deserted shop in the devastated Mozambican city of Beira has become a place of refuge for dozens of families displaced by a deadly cyclone, which has caused flooding and rendered many areas inaccessible. More than 1,000 are feared to have died in the cyclone after it smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores were also killed in neighbouring Zimbabwe. In front of Beira’s city council in the modest neighbourhood of Praia Nova, locals have…

The beaten candidate in last month’s Nigerian presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday lodged a legal challenge to the official result, his lawyer said. Muhammadu Buhari, 76, was re-elected president after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures, but the opposition immediately vowed to challenge the “sham” result. It was the second victory at the ballot box for Buhari, a one-time military ruler who was first elected in 2015 to lead Africa’s…

Romeo Beckham, the second son of famous couple David and Victoria Beckham is reportedly dating English actress and model, Millie Bobby Brown. The 16-year-old tennis hopeful is said to have met the ‘Stranger Things‘ actress, 15, at Unicef’s 70th-anniversary gala in 2016, and immediately the pair got attached to each other. Now the pair are reported to have started dating, with a source telling The Sun it’s ‘early days’ for the duo and Victoria Beckham is a fan of Millie.  The…

The recent decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to exclude the textile sector from the forex market will put over N5 trillion worth of investments in jeopardy, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has warned. Besides the threat posed on the N5 trillion investments the chamber equally raised the alarm that an estimated 500,000 jobs may also be wiped off. The chamber in a document titled ‘‘Comments on CBN Forex Exclusion…

A Nigerian man with the handle, @LegitChidi, has called for the bombing of Abuja Central Mosque after the New Zealand shootings which left over 50 people dead. The Nigerian man called for the bombing of Abuja Central Mosque, after Dr Joe Abah, made a post concerning the the New Zealand mosque shootings, calling on a condemnation of “all forms of extremism: religious, racial, ideological or political.” However many social media users condemned the attack in New…