Author: Kelvin Funkeye

A Ghanaian pastor has caused a stir online after he was filmed rolling himself on engine oil during a recent church crusade in Accra, Ghana.   In the viral video below, Pastor Blessing of the Christ Faith Overcomers Chapel is seen rolling himself in the engine oil while his church members were singing and clapping.   At one point, two young men came forward to spray some amount of money on the pastor while he continued to roll on the ground….

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s police said Wednesday that they are banning “public gatherings” in Harare in an effort to curb a cholera outbreak that has killed 21 people. Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba said in a statement Wednesday that the ban aims to alleviate “the continuous spread” of cholera in the capital, where the government has declared an emergency. Zimbabwean law broadly defines a public gathering as “a public meeting or a public demonstration.” Health Minister…

President Buhari has appealed to members of the All Progressives Congress(APC) not to be complacent but to prepare, strategise and win 2019 elections, to prevent the Peoples Democratic Party from taking Nigeria backwards. He made the appeal at the APC national Secretariat Wednesday in Abuja while submitting his Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to contest the presidency in 2019. Although Buhari did not mention PDP in his short speech, the reference was unmistakable as…

The Kenyan director of a movie banned in her home country for telling the love story of two women has filed a lawsuit seeking to lift the bar so it can be considered for the country’s Oscars entry, court documents show. “Rafiki”, which means friend in the Swahili language, premiered at the Cannes film festival, the first Kenyan film to do so. It is adapted from an award-winning short story “Jambula Tree” by Ugandan writer…

The wait is over as Lil Wayne is finally set to drop the anticipated Tha Carter Valbum! The rapper’s record label Young Money shared the cover art for the album on Wednesday via Twitter. View image on Twitter Young Money ✔@YoungMoneySite Put them 5s up 9:48 AM – 12 Sep 2018 28.2K 18.8K people are talking about this Twitter Ads information and privacy The C5 album release comes after Birdman and Wayne buried the hatchet during Weezy’s concert in New Orleans. In 2015, Lil…

American rapper, Bow Wow, has dished out advice for youths still doing drugs as he recounted how he almost died of codeine addiction. According to him, his sad story with codeine began after he worked on the ‘Face Off’ album with Omarion. Bow Wow wrote, To the youth- Stop with these dumb ass drugs. Im going to let something out. When me and omarion worked on FACE OFF album. I was high off lean everyday!…

The Tanzanian Parliament has banned lawmakers from entering with fake nails and eyelashes. Premium Times reports that the ban was announced by the Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Job Ndugai. His claim is that fake nails and lashes pose serious health risks that are “costly to the country.” Short dresses and jeans are also banned from the parliament, and the ban will extend to visitors, too. Consultations are also reportedly being made to stop MPs who…

From the four corners of the world, more than 1,500 dignitaries, including heads of state and the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr António Guterres, are converging on Accra today for the burial service of Mr Kofi Annan in what is expected to be a historic celebration of life. Some of the heads of state attending the funeral are President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, George Weah of Liberia, Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire, Hage Geingob of…