President Muhammadu Buhari will visit South Africa in October, Khusela Diko, spokesman of President Cyril Ramaphosa, has said.Buhari had contemplated cancelling the visit in the wake of the recent attacks on Nigerians in the South Africa, according to a presidency source.The source had said the Nigerian leader was really worried over the attacks and that honouring the invitation of his [...]
Between 1999 and 2001, Hazel Francis Ngubeni who served as South African’s high commissioner to Singapore, served a jail sentence in the US. According to Sunday Times, a South African newspaper, Ngubeni waas convicted for smuggling a bag of cocaine while working as a cabin attendant for South African Airways.The newspaper reported Ngubeni, 55, who at the time went by the name [...]
The South African police on Friday announced that they had arrested 497 suspects who have been looting shops in Gauteng province.The police said they were on high alert monitoring the situation, adding that some people started looting shops since Sunday and have continued till date.Mathapelo Peters, police spokesperson, said 74 persons were arrested in Katlehong on Thursday, bringing the total [...]
Robert Mugabe, former president of Zimbabwe, has died.He died in Singapore aged 95 after battling ill health.Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe, tweeted about the demise of Mugabe on Friday morning."It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe," he tweeted."Cde Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a [...]
BudgIT, a civic tech organisation, has launched operations in Ghana.Gabriel Okeowo, BudgIT principal lead, announced the development in a statement on Thursday.BudgIT uses an array of tech tools to simplify the budget and matters of public spending for citizens, with the primary aim of raising the standard of transparency and accountability in government.“This exactly is our ultimate goal in Ghana, [...]
Naledi Pandor, South African minister of foreign affairs, says there are many Nigerians in the country involved in drug and human trafficking.Pandor said this on Thursday while responding to criticisms that South Africa's security agencies are not doing enough to protect foreigners in the wave of xenophobia rocking the country.Many Nigerians based in South Africa lost properties worth millions of [...]
Jo Johnson, brother to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has quit the British parliament and resigned as minister.Announcing his resignation via a tweet on Thursday, Jo Johnson said he had been torn between "family loyalty and national interest"."It’s been an honour to represent Orpington for 9 years & to serve as a minister under three PMs," Jo Johnson wrote."In recent weeks [...]
Naledi Pandor, South African minister of foreign affairs, says there is no provision for compensating those affected in the fresh attacks in the country.In an interview with Reuters, Pandor said her country’s laws do not have provision for such.Last week, angry mob went on rampage in South Africa, targetting foreign nationals, including Nigerians.Adetola Olubajo, president of the Nigerian Union in [...]
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South African would probably have been more careful when, in March, he took a swipe at foreign nationals "doing business illegally" in his country. As with most politicians, Ramaphosa made a campaign issue out of what some South Africans were believed to be saying about foreign nationals who come to take their jobs and businesses. “Everybody just arrives [...]
The Nigerian Mission in South Africa says no Nigerian died in the fresh attacks in the country but over 50 vehicles and other property worth millions of dollars owned by Nigerians were vandalised, burnt or stolen.Godwin Adama, Nigeria's consul general in Johannesburg, disclosed this in an in a telephone interview with NAN on Tuesday.The renewed xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other [...]
