Author: Kelvin Funkeye

Nollywood actress and film maker Omotola Jalade Ekeinde has been unveiled as one of the Most Influential 100 People of African Descent.   She was honored in New York City, following the opening of the 73rd UN General Assembly. Omotola who has appeared in over 300 films, with several high-profile awards, made the announcement on her social media saying, “Honoured to be one of the Most Influential 100 People of African Descent at the United Nations by…

Mozambique put on Wednesday trial 189 people, including foreigners, accused of being involved in deadly Islamist attacks in a northern province. Since October last year, more than 100 people have been killed, often by decapitation, in 40 separate attacks, in villages in Cabo Delgado – a province on the border with Tanzania where companies are developing one of the biggest gas finds in a decade. The trial was held in the open penitentiary in Pemba,…

Zimbabwean police arrested the head of the state power distributor over a tender involving an Indian company, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said. The authorities detained Joshua Chifamba, chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission & Distribution Co., on Wednesday night and he’ll appear in court on Thursday, Nyathi said by phone from the capital, Harare. He will face charges that “relate to a $35 million tender involving an Indian company called PME,” Nyathi said….

Melania Trump walked out the infamous “Door of No Return” at a onetime slave-trade outpost Wednesday and gazed over the crashing ocean waves that carried millions of Africans to lives of servitude. She later called her visit “a solemn reminder of a time in our history that should never be forgotten.” “It’s very emotional,” she said. “The dungeons that I saw, it’s really something that people should see and experience,” she told reporters. The setting…

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has revealed those sponsoring armed ethnic militia groups in Jos, the capital of Plateau state. Buratai said the armed ethnic militia groups in Plateau State were supported and sponsored by elites or elders of the state. Buratai disclosed this on Wednesday during the burial of three soldiers who were killed during the violence that rocked the state’s troubled Barkin Ladi Local Government Area at the Maxwell Khobe…

Nineteen people are feared killed in Ariri Village, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State by suspected herdsmen. The herdsmen were said to have attacked the village on Wednesday night and shot the victims while they were asleep. Bullets scattered around the scene of the attack   According to residents, security operatives are yet to arrive at the scene of the incident and the corpses of the victims are still scattered across the compounds where…

1. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expelled Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly and factional senatorial candidate in the 2019 general election. APC Delta state chapter led by Cyril Abeye Ogodo took the decision during an emergency meeting of the State Working Committee (SWC ) in Asaba on Wednesday. 2. An articulated vehicle loaded with fuel has gone up in flames, in Akure, the Ondo State capital….

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered the US to ease sanctions it re-imposed on Iran after pulling out a nuclear deal last year. Siding with Tehran, it said exports of “humanitarian” goods, such as food and medicines, should be allowed. The US argued the court had no jurisdiction in the case as it concerned its national security. The rulings of the ICJ which is based in The Hague are binding but the court…

Hiking to the top of the Afadja Mountain which seems highly impossible for some adults became an easy task for young Adabla Edudzi, a Kindergarten Two female pupil of the Wuxor D/A Basic School in the Akatsi South District of the Volta Region. Six-year-old Adabla, stunned her teachers and mates when she managed to hit the peak of the tallest mountain in Ghana and received a thunderous applause from the onlookers. Adabla has arguably become…