Author: Kelvin Funkeye

Russia has dismissed new American sanctions imposed on Venezuela and Cuba this week, vowing to stand by the embattled regime headed by President Nicolas Maduro. The RIA news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov Thursday as saying the new sanctions—announced by National Security Adviser John Bolton on Wednesday—were illegal, Reuters reported. Ryabkov added that the Kremlin plans to do everything to support its allies in Caracas and Havana, despite continued American efforts to undermine…

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin this month, the Kremlin said Thursday, as tensions between Washington and Pyongyang reached fever pitch. The Kremlin announced the talks just hours after North Korea launched an extraordinary attack on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding he be removed from negotiations over its banned nuclear programme. Pyongyang also claimed Thursday to have tested a new kind of weapon with a…

A study conducted by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana, has revealed that in 2016, Ghana lost $18.9 million (GHC73.5 million) as economic costs of violence against women and girls (VAWG). The study revealed that women survivors who accessed services and reported, incurring expenses spent $53 annually on the average, which is the equivalent to 10 per cent of their annual per capita expenditure on non-food consumption….

The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Thursday in its judgment over alleged non-asset declaration against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, banned him from holding public office for 10 years. The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, Thursday in its judgment over alleged non-asset declaration against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, banned him from holding public office for 10 years. It also removed Onnoghen from office as the Chief Justice of Nigeria and chairman, National…

Over the years the success and progress of Africa cannot be discussed without talking about the blood shared by it’s ancestors who surfed and survived slavery from its colonial masters. It’s been 400 years since the  first documented shipment of Africans from Jamestown Ghana to Jamestown Virginia USA which is termed the year of return. In recognition of Ghana’s celebration of the “year of Rerun-2019,  and also as part of Du Bois Center’s mandate of…

Senegal’s government on Wednesday approved a plan to scrap the post of prime minister, the first initiative of President Macky Sall’s second term in office. Sall, who was comfortably re-elected in February, announced the plan earlier this month, telling the prime minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne, to abolish his own job. That announcement was a surprise, as it had not been part of Sall’s re-election campaign. During the ministers’ meeting on Wednesday, the new government…

Despite the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warning on Nigeria’s rising debt and taking loans from foreign sources, the Federal Government has approved another foreign loan of $247.3 million for infrastructure development. While the IMF says that rising government debt level could make the global economy more vulnerable to another severe downturn, the Federal  Government in a swift reaction had allayed fears over the nation’s rising debt profile, insisting that the loans taken so far are…

President Buhari has asked his ministers to submit reports of projects in their various ministries by Wednesday, April 24.   The notice for submission was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday, by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity. The submission of the reports forms part of activities to wind down the first term of the President Buhari administration.   According to the statement, the President has asked for…

When Beyonce wants something done, nothing and no one can stand in her way, not even herself. The singer’s new Homecoming documentary has revealed so much about her, including the extent she will go to get results. The strict diet she had to endure and all the things she denied herself to get her body back and prepare for Coachella 2018 was revealed in Homecoming: A film by Beyonce (read here). Michelle Williams, Beyonce’s former Destiny’s…

Hollywood actress, Gabrielle Union has opened up on why she supported her 11yr old stepson Zion as he marched at the Miami Gay Pride Parade. The two day festival event brought together members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and Dwayne Wade’s son was present. Speaking about how it feels having her husband’s son at the gay pride parade, Gabrielle Union said: “It feels normal. My mom took me to my first pride…