Author: Kelvin Funkeye

At least six persons have been feared dead and several others displaced by flood in Dabi village, Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The flood also displaced residents of the local government, forcing them out of their homes following a heavy downpour. Schools and farmlands were not spared as they were all submerged in flood. Some other communities in four different local government areas of the state were also affected by the downpour. They…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has captured 14,551,482 new voters in the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, which began on 27th April 2017 and was suspended on 31st August.   Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the disclosure on 6th September during the Commission’s third quarterly consultative meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), held at INEC’s Headquarters, Abuja.   Addressing the RECs, Prof. Yakubu said: “As you are aware, the…

A certain Ghanaian prophet has made a shocking revelation as he speaks on his weakness. The founder and leader of True Fire Prophetic Word Ministries, Prophet Nigel Gaisie, has revealed that he has on some occasions ended up sleeping with other women apart from his wife. According to him, women are his greatest weakness, and many of them make advances towards him. Nigel made this revelation in an interview with Blakk Rasta on Zylofon FM,…

Days after being dumped on social media by her supposed lover, Nina Chinonso Onyenobi, of the BBNaija reality TV show yesterday sealed another endorsement deal with an international clothing store, Mands Clothing store. In the spirit of moving on, Nina took to her instagram page to post her deal signing photos. Ardent fans of the young graduate have taken to her comment section to send her warm wishes as well as anticipate her becoming richer…

Media personality and actress Joey Muthengi has said she prefers dating old men as young men are only good in pictures. The Citizen TV news anchor added her voice to the controversial debate of young Kenyan girls sleeping with older men aka sponsors for money. According to her, older men are way better than ‘slay kings’, because they come with maturity, assurance, responsibility and above all, the willingness to share their knowledge. Joey was speaking…

Cholera has killed 14 people with almost 400 hospitalised in the past week in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, the Borno state health commissioner said on Wednesday. “As of today, 5th September… 380 cases of suspected cholera have been reported with 14 deaths,” Haruna Mshelia said in a statement. He said most of the suspected cases and deaths occurred in camps for displaced people in Maiduguri, while other victims were from neighbouring districts on the…

A South Sudanese military court on Thursday sentenced 10 soldiers to prison for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a journalist in an assault on a hotel in Juba in 2016, and ordered the government to pay compenstation to the victims. The attack at the Terrain Hotel in the capital was one of the worst on foreign aid workers since South Sudan was plunged into conflict in 2013. Eleven soldiers were…

Former ICT minister Omobola Johnson has joined the board of World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation for short). The Web Foundation was established by world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2009 to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right. This was announced in a statement by Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), where Johnson had served as Honorary Chairperson for the past three years. “As the second Honorary Chair of A4AI — a role she assumed…

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, today said fake news is the only weapon the opposition can use to fight ainst a performing government like the Buhari-led government. Lai made the comment when he paid courtesy visit to the People’s Daily newspaper in Abuja. “Fake news has taken another dimension. Now, it is not uncommon for otherwise respectable media organisations to accuse the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria without backing up their accusation with…