Author: Kelvin Funkeye

Sindo, Kenya – The communities around Lake Victoria in Kenya rely heavily on fishing to earn their living. With the population increasing and competition fierce, many women are being forced to have sex with fishermen to secure a share of the daily catch. Hundreds of women wait on the beach, looking out over the water, plastic buckets in their arms. Wooden fishing boats piled high with mukene, small sardine-like fish native to Lake Victoria, sail towards them. When they…

Mr. Sunday Ogunniyi, the Special Assistant on Environmental Services to the Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed has resigned his appointment. Ogunniyi’s resignation letter to the governor tendered through the office of the Secretary to the Kwara State Government did not state the reason behind his decision. A copy of the letter sighted by DAILY POST on Wednesday reads: “With humility sir, I wish to inform you of my intention to resign my political appointment as…

  The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said that the 800 metres trekking President Buhari embarked upon from the Eid-ground in Daura to his private residence, is an indication of his fitness to seek re-election in 2019. President Buhari decided ro trek back home to acknowledge the cheers from the residents of Daura who filed out in their numbers to cheer him. According to Garba, the President’s…

Hundreds gathered around screens outside Zimbabwe’s top court on Wednesday to watch a legal showdown between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition leader challenging his July 30 election victory. Hundreds of thousands more turned on their televisions to follow live footage of the Constitutional Court considering Nelson Chamisa’s petition that the vote was flawed and should be overturned. Riot police blocked roads leading to the court in the capital Harare and vehicles carrying water cannon…

Irate youth have set the Magistrates’ Court in Olru, Imo State on fire. Punch reports that the fire destroyed all the documents in the court before it was put out. The Magistrates’ Court is on the premises of Orlu High court. The Police spokesperson in the state, Andrew Enwerem, has confirmed the incident. He described it as a case of suspected arson. Enwerem said that the Commissioner of Police, Daduki Galadanchi, had mandated the Area…

An Ivorian, who managed to bypass the security systems of CAL Bank Ghana Limited and allegedly stole GH¢110,160,000 from the bank, has been remanded into custody by an Accra Circuit Court. William Djedehard Anselme Boscaud Dieou is said to have remotely logged onto one of the computers of CAL Bank and used the credentials of two staff of the bank to debit the internal account of the bank with the said amount. The suspect, according…

Liberian president George Weah is set to honour former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and French coach Claude Le Roy for their role in his footballing career, BBC reports. The decoration ceremony is billed to hold in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia on Friday 24th August. President Weah is the only African to have won both FIFA World Player of the Year and the Ballon D’Or.

The US First Lady Melania Trump is set to visit Africa for the first time. According to BBC, Trump in a statement revealed that she will be traveling to the continent to educate herself on issues facing children while working on some humanitarian activities and help in the “development programmes being done in many of the countries”. An excerpt of the statement reads: This will be my first time travelling to Africa and I am excited to educate myself…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday prayed for a bumper harvest and food security in Nigeria to reduce the importation of food and stop rice smuggling. The President said the prayer when he joined the Muslim faithful at the Kofar Arewa Eid ground in his hometown of Daura in Katsina State to observe the Eid-El-Kabir prayers. The President had arrived in Daura on Monday for the Eid festivities. He was joined at the prayer ground by the…

Veteran Comedian, Alibaba has taken to his Instagram page to call out some Nigerian ‘big boys’ who shut down a recent event with the ‘pepper dem’ spray. According to him, people who made their money through legitimate businesses will never ‘waste’ their money like those Nigerian ‘big boys’. Sharing the video on his Instagram page, he wrote: “No matter how much you have, if you got your money through legit means and pay tax, you can never…