Author: Kelvin Funkeye

The Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has inaugurated the school’s new Governing Council. Six new members are joining the remaining nine, including representatives from the unions. The same representatives from the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Prof E.K. Fokuo; the Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU), Mr Charles Arthur; and the Students Representative Council (SRC), Kevin Sah, will be on the new council. The Governing…

ZIMBABWE yesterday received a $3,6 million grant from Japan to help fight cybercrime. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said the grant for procurement of cyber security equipment, deepened the bilateral relations between the two countries. “I am therefore grateful for the grant aid support from government of Japan amounting to 390 million Japanese Yen (about $3,6 million) towards the procurement of cybercrime equipment,” Ncube said. He said the cyber security equipment to be procured under Japanese…

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has ordered the army to buy up the entire country’s crop of cashew nuts after private companies refused to pay the price fixed by his government. The move comes just days after Magufuli fired Agriculture Minister Charles Tizeba and Trade Minister Charles Mwijage for “failing in their obligations” to the cashew industry. Magufuli ordered soldiers to buy up the nuts at $1.44 (1.28 euros) per kilogramme, higher than the price companies…

Senate Tuesday adjourned sitting to November 20 following the inability of the upper chamber to form a quorum. The upper chamber was more than 10 but not up to 20 in the said session. This resolution was sequel to an adopted motion sponsored by senator Phillip Aduda representing the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. In his presentation, Adudua said, “Mr. President and my most respected colleagues, we have not formed the required number approved for the…

The contractor handling the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project, Julius Berger has said that the project will be completed by 2021. The Operations Manager, Julius Berger, Thamm Olaf, told the Senate Committee on Works, led by its Chairman, Kabiru Gaya, on Sunday, that the project, which was to be completed in 2017, was stalled due to paucity of funds and the recent expansion, Punch Metro reports. Gaya and other members of the committee, who were on an…

For the first time since the expose football corruption, ace undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas will openly speak to the motivation behind the “Number 12” investigative project which unearthed massive corruption in African football. Touted by connoisseurs and pundits of the inky fraternity and stakeholders alike, as the most dreaded undercover project of all time to have not just rocked football in Ghana, but Africa as a whole, the “Number 12” resulted in many…

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Timi Frank, has given Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, seven days to resign over alleged flagrant violation of the Constitution and the Public Procurement Act in the approval of N5.8billion as intervention funds for the North East in 2017. The House of Representatives in its investigative report had indicted Osinbajo after its investigation into the fund disbursement. Frank in a statement on Monday, called on the…

(CNN)Former first lady Michelle Obama discusses her dislike of President Donald Trump — as well as personal details of her life before and during her time in the White House — in her highly anticipated memoir, “Becoming,” The Washington Post reported Thursday. Obama says she would “never forgive” Trump for the rumors he spread questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama’s American birth certificate, which she said threatened her family’s safety. “What if someone with an unstable mind…

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least 17 people were killed when suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, police said. “So far we have confirmed 17 civilians dead. They were traveling in public vehicles at the scene when the blasts and gunfire occurred. The death toll is sure to rise,” Ali Nur, a police officer in the city, told Reuters. (Reporting…