Author: Kelvin Funkeye

An 8-year-old Nigerian homeless refugee child, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, was crowned a New York chess champion for his age group last weekend. Tanitoluwa Adewumi who fled Nigeria with his family in 2017 and is now living in a homeless shelter in New York City while his asylum application is pending, won his category at the New York State chess championship. He went undefeated at the state tournament last weekend, outwitting children from elite private schools with…

The heir to the Saudi throne has not attended a series of high-profile ministerial and diplomatic meetings in Saudi Arabia over the last fortnight and is alleged to have been stripped of some of his financial and economic authority, the Guardian has been told. The move to restrict, if only temporarily, the responsibilities of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is understood to have been revealed to a group of senior ministers earlier last week by his…

Nigeria Customs Service has promoted an officer identified as Comptroller Bashir Abubakar of Apapa Area Command to an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG), after he rejected a $420k bribe. The Nigeria Customs Service promoted the officer who rejected the $420K bribe offered by a drug trafficking cartel, to take delivery of 41 smuggled containers of Tramadol. Recall that it was reported last year that the Apapa command of the service intercepted 40x40ft containers of pharmaceutical products…

Shocking reports are emerging of a mass shooting in Holland as Dutch police confirm that several people have been shot in the city of Utrecht. At least one person has died and a number of people injured in a shooting ‘with possible terrorist motive’ in the central Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday morning, local news reports. One or several gunmen opened fire on a tram in the city centre at around 10.45 local time…

On March 14, 2019, Accra’s richly diverse property development sector welcomed an evening of business collaborations and power networking at The On Point Property Management company launch. Created in 2015 to educate, inspire, bridge the gap with the global diaspora and present viable opportunities within every aspect of the property industry, the event drew over 100 supportive guests eager to learn more about the company and On Point range of services. The launch of this exciting event…

Preliminary information from the flight data recorder of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed a week ago and killed 157 people shows “clear similarities” with an earlier disaster involving the same kind of Boeing aircraft in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s transport minister said Sunday. The disclosure came as thousands marched in the capital of Addis Ababa, accompanying 17 empty caskets at a funeral for the Ethiopian victims of Flight 302. The caskets were empty because authorities have…

Will Smith released a video of himself twerking to the song Thotiana and, now, Twitter users are arguing about his sexuality. The 50-year-old actor can be seen in the Instagram video with his hands on the floor and his butt high up in the air as he moved his butt.  The video was viewed by over 10 million Instagram users and led to a conversation on Twitter. A number of Twitter users have now concluded he’s gay. Some even went as…

Trade volume between Nigeria and the United States of America (USA)has grown to $35billion, Dr. Maikanti Baru, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said. Baru, who spoke yesterday during a meeting with the United States Energy Secretary, Rick Perry and some African petroleum ministers, on the sidelines of the 19th CERAWeek Conference taking place in Houston, United States, disclosed that Nigeria and US had been very good partners. He advocated…

40 people have died, including children, after a 28-year-old Australian white supremacist opened fire at a mosque in New Zealand during Friday prayers. The gunmen, who identified himself on Twitter as Brenton Tarrant from Grafton, New South Wales, livestreamed the massacre which took place inside the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch at about 1:30pm while the mosque was packed full with Muslim faithful who attended Friday prayers. As the mosque attack was going on, there was another…

Singer, Ciara, has disclosed that it took a lot of prayers to avoid the temptations of premarital sex with Russell Wilson until after their July 2016 wedding During her cover interview for April’s issue of InStyle, she opened up on how she and her Super Bowl-winning husband abstained from having sex until their vows were said.  “That took a lot of prayer,” Ciara joked. “It was hard. I can’t lie.”  In 2017, Ciara also spoke about their strong values…