Wayne Lumbasi Premier League clubs have reportedly agreed to allow five substitutions per team in next season’s games. League sources have confirmed the issue is up for debate and it is believed a change in the law could be agreed in principle at the meeting ahead of full implementation next season. The rule was used during the latter […]
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Lisa Mugo Comedian and actor Chris Rock has finally broken his silence after the controversial Academy Awards that saw him get slapped by actor Will Smith for cracking a joke about his wife Jada Pinkette Smith. The comedian whose tickets sales skyrocketed after the incident and were fully sold out in Boston received a long round of applause […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenyan police say they have taken disciplinary action against a policeman filmed forcing his way into a private car via a window on a busy road in the capital, Nairobi. The incident, highly circulated on social media, was captured by a local TV crew in the central business district. In the clip, the […]
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Wayne Lumbasi The Egyptian FA has filed a complaint to Fifa saying its players were subjected to racist abuse during their World Cup qualifier against Senegal. The Egyptian Football Association has accused Senegal’s fans of the discriminatory behavior towards the Liverpool superstar and his teammates. In a repeat of February’s Africa Cup of Nations final, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu A 19th-century carved mask from Central Africa has been sold for $4.6 million in France, despite Gabonese protesters in the auction house demanding the item’s “restitution.” “It’s a case of receiving stolen goods,” a man identifying himself as a member of Montpellier’s Gabonese community exclaimed from the back of the auction room, surrounded by […]
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Avellon Williams GENEVA – A report has been issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on Hungary, Jamaica, Mexico, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and Switzerland, the five State parties it examined during its latest session. A positive review of each country’s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Israel is experiencing an increase in violence resulting from a series of deadly terror attacks across the country, most recently in the central city of Bnei Brak. A total of 11 people were killed in three terror attacks over a one-week period. On Tuesday night, five people were killed after a gunman, armed with an M-16 […]
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Avellon Williams TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- Spiritual (Shouter) Baptist Liberation Day is an annual public holiday celebrated in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, on March 30. The holiday commemorates the repeal on March 30, 1951, of the 1917 Shouter Prohibition Ordinance that prohibited the activities of the Shouter or Spiritual Baptist faith. I Trinidad and Tobago are […]
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Lisa Mugo Online music streaming service Boomplay, has teamed up with telecommunication company Innovative Telco, 9Mobile to offer affordable data plans that will be exclusive to Boomplay users in Nigeria. The partnership will give users access to over 70 million tracks not only from Africa, but also from all over the world. Users will also be able to download […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Eight peacekeepers died in a Tuesday helicopter crash in North Kivu, a location in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Congo (Monusco), initial findings reveal that “the crash was caused by a luminous object“. The UN mission is, however, not ruling out the possibility […]
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