Author: Kelvin Funkeye

Nigeria Senate on Thursday confirmed a letter from President Muhammadu Buhari on the National minimum wage bill. In a letter which was read by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who presided over Thursday’s plenary, Buhari urged the legislators to expedite action on the bill. The letter further noted that passing the bill on time would stabilise the economy as Nigerian workers have been looking towards solving the Labour crisis. “Mr. Senate President, I hope…

Following the widrawal of Oby Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) from the presidential race, Buhari’s social media aide, Lauretta Onochie in a post on her Twitter page said integrity and massive support for President Buhari made Ezekwesili ‘chicken out’ of the presidential race. She wrote: “Oby Ezekwesili, the Presidential Candidate of ACPN, has chickened out after watching the mammoth crowd that continues to receive Mr. Integrity across the nation, she…

The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, on Wednesday disclosed why Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, F-SARS, was disbanded. NPF spokesperson, Frank Mba explained that FSARS was decentralised in a bid to correct the abnormality, restore order and bring the police closer to the people. Featuring on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Mba disclosed that the reforms of F-SARS won’t be cosmetics. Mba said the move was just “a tip of the iceberg among very many reforms IGP Mohammed…

Calls for unity dominated speeches during an event to mark the 25th death anniversary of Kenya’s first Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. ODM leader Raila Odinga called on the church to pray for the truce deal and peace in the country, saying it is a sure way for development. The African Union High Representative for Infrastructural Development noted that the country also needs a working justice system to thrive. “Without truth we cannot have justice;…

It’s all work, work, work, work, work for Rihanna! The 30-year-old singer is reportedly working with LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) to launch a luxury, high-end brand under her name, according to multiple reports.  LVMH has already handpicked a handful of employees from within, including some from Louis Vuitton and Celine, to work on the project with Rihanna and some of her key associates, sources told WWD, who was first to report the news. ET has reached out to Rihanna’s…

Kenya has detained nine suspects in connection with an attack by a Somali group on a Nairobi hotel and office complex that killed 21 people, a police officer said on Friday, showing the search for possible accomplices in the raid is gathering pace. The officer, who asked not to be named, also told Reuters police were pursuing a woman suspected of ferrying weapons to Nairobi from Kiunga, near the border with neighboring Somalia, via the…

Zimbabwe on Friday faced a “total internet shutdown,” a media group said, after a days-long violent crackdown on people protesting a dramatic fuel price increase. Badly injured people streamed into a hospital in the capital after alleged assaults by security forces. “Our country is going through one of the most trying periods in its history,” the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference said in a sweeping statement lamenting the government’s “intolerant handling of dissent” and its failure…

Algeria will hold a presidential election on April 18, the presidency said on Friday, although it did not say whether veteran leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika would stand as a candidate. Bouteflika, 81, has been in office since 1999 and has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, since when he has used a wheelchair. Algeria’s ruling coalition has previously urged him to run again for the presidency. Candidates have 45 days to…