Author: Kelvin Funkeye

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to focus on what unites them and promised to work tirelessly for the country’s unity. The President said this in his Independence Day anniversary address to the nation on Monday. As the country turns 58, the President believes it is on the right part, despite challenges, with much worth celebrating. “As we celebrate the 58th Anniversary of our independence, we know we are on the right path. Although we…

1. The organised labour has suspended its nationwide warning strike with effect from Sunday, September 30. Ayuba Wabba, the National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), announced this while briefing journalists at the Labour House in Abuja. Wabba said the organised labour has got a firm commitment from the government, that the Tripartite Committee of the Minimum Wage Committee would reconvene on October 4. 2. Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State Sunday emerged…

Timaya has revealed that it is only Innocent ‘2baba’ Idibia that can call himself a legend among the active artistes in the Nigerian music industry. The ‘Bam Bam’ singer frowned at the situation where artistes start referring to themselves as legends after making music for 10 years. Timaya made the comment during a radio interview with SoundCity FM. He said: “In this part of the world, many artistes when they get to 10 years, they…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he’ll leave some difference in the presidency if he wins the 2019 election and “survive the next four years”. The president made this known in an interactive session with Nigerians in diaspora on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “If I win the next election and I survive the next four years, I will do better,” TheCable quoted Buhari as saying. In a statement released by the president’s media aide Femi Adesina,…

President of the Senate and Chairman of the PDP Presidential Council on Osun State, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has reiterated that the recently-conducted supplementary election in Osun State was a charade and an embarrassment to Nigeria’s democracy. His position was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu. Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) defeated Senator Ademola Adeleke of the PDP with 482 votes in the rerun…

Starboy, Wizkid has hinted thatbhe would be dropping yet another hit on the 1st of October and it would be huge. The award winning singer who has been making his country proud with his talents and sound made a come back to his city with the track ‘Soco’ and helped singer Duncan Mighty get back his grip in the music industry with the banging collaboration ‘ Fake Love’, he has now annouced that there is…

Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria, the country’s main relief agency said on Thursday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 199 people had lost their lives after the main Niger and Benue rivers burst their banks. A national disaster has been declared in the central states of Kogi, where the two rivers meet, and Niger, plus Delta and Anambra in the south. NEMA…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the current trade war between the United States of America (USA) and China has the potential to adversely affect Ghana. According to the President, even though Ghana was far from these two countries, the inter-dependence of countries across the globe makes it possible for Ghana to feel the spillover effect of the trade war. President Akufo-Addo, who was addressing world leaders at the 73rd UN General Assembly yesterday…