Tag: South Africa
Super Falcons beat South Africa to reach AWC final
Nigeria’s Super Falcons beat South Africa’s Banyana Banyana 2-1 on Wednesday in Windhoek, Namibia to qualify for the final match…
South African inflation dips to 5.9%
South African inflation slowed to 5.9 percent last month from 6.4 percent in August, falling to within the central bank’s…
Glo Tasks Super Falcons To Beat South Africa
Nigerian female national team, Super Falcons, have been urged to work towards reclaiming the African Women Championship, AWC, trophy as…
AWC S/Final: Falcons In High Spirits
Nigeria’s Super Falcons are in high spirits ahead of their clash with arch rivals, Bayana Bayana of South Africa in…
Goods stolen from S.African mall traced to Nigeria
South African police said some goods stolen during a recent mall robberies in Gauteng and the Western Cape have been…
Patience Jonathan arrives South Africa for AFLPM meeting
Wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Friday, arrived in Pretoria, South Africa, for the 3rd Executive Bureau Meeting…
APC tells FG, ‘Cash-for-arms deal in South Africa is shady’
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the PDP-led Federal Government for its insulting and disingenuous explanation aimed at deceiving…
Winnie Mandela to undergo surgery
Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is to be admitted to hospital to undergo surgery, her daughter said on Monday. “Wishing…
$9.3mn: Northern Youth Takes Case To UN
Northern Youth Assembly has issued the Federal Government of Nigeria a three-week ultimatum to constitute a commission of enquiry into…
The Embarrassing Cash Seizures In South Africa
Again, the authorities in South Africa last week seized another jet load of dollars, purportedly meant to purchase arms in…
Dasuki defends $5.7mn arms transaction in South Africa
Nigeria has denied any wrongdoing over the $5.7million frozen by South Africa in a bank. In a reaction to the…
South Africa seizes another $5.7mn Nigerian money
Just when controversy is still raging over the $9.3million cash seized from 2 Nigerians and an Israeli in South Africa…
Zuma names Kganyago governor of South African central bank
South Africa’s President on Monday announced deputy governor Lesetja Kganyago will succeed the country’s respected central bank governor Gill Marcus.…
Dalai Lama accuses South Africa of ‘bullying’
The Dalai Lama on Thursday accused South Africa of “bullying a simple person” after authorities there failed to give him…
S.Africa denies corruption in Russia nuclear plant pact
South Africa denied Wednesday any corruption was involved in a multi-billion dollar nuclear energy deal after controversy erupted over whether…
South Africa court postpones Malema corruption trial
A South African court on Tuesday suspended the corruption trial of firebrand politician Julius Malema, pushing the high-profile case against…
S.Africa gives Cuba $31 million economic aid
South Africa has agreed to provide Cuba with more than $30 million in “economic assistance”, Trade and Industry Minister Rob…
South Africa’s first gay-friendly mosque could be shut
South Africa’s first gay-friendly mosque, which also allows Christian worshippers and women to lead prayers, could be closed unless it…
Senate begins investigation into $9.3m
The Senate on Tuesday began investigation into circumstances surrounding the seizure of Nigeria’s 9.3 million dollars in South Africa. The…
Synagogue: 26 South African survivors head home
Twenty-six injured survivors of a Nigerian church collapse were repatriated home Monday, after a tragedy that claimed 86 lives, most…
Synagogue church collapse death toll now 115 – S.African minister
The death toll from the Nigerian church collapse has now climbed to 115 people, with 84 of them South Africans,…
Synagogue: 300 South Africans inside collapsed building
South African government said as many as 300 South Africans were visiting the Synagogue Church in Lagos Pentecostal church in…
Synagogue: 67 South Africans die in building collapse – Zuma
Sixty-seven South Africans have been confirmed killed in a building collapse at a church in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, South…
Oritsejafor Owns Seized Jet With $9.3m In S/Africa
An investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed that a Nigerian private jet caught in Johannesburg with $9.3 million belongs to Pastor…
South Africa probes 2 Nigerians over smuggled $9.3million
South African police are investigating two Nigerians and an Israeli citizen who tried to bring $9.3 million in cash into…
Pistorius ‘not guilty’ of murder
Oscar Pistorius was found not guilty of the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp Thursday as a South African judge dismissed…
Pistorius could get ‘separate accommodation’ in prison
South Africa’s department of correctional services on Thursday said disabled prisoners could be entitled to separate accommodation, in a statement…
Pistorius weeps as judge begins murder trial verdict
“Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius sat weeping in the dock Thursday as a judge began handing down the verdict over the…
Its ‘Judgement Day’ for Oscar Pistorius
“Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius appears in court on Thursday to face judgement over the killing of his model girlfriend, ending…