South Africa

The President of Nigerian Union in South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, has called on the South African authorities to arrest and prosecute killers of Nigerians in that country.

Former US president, Barack Obama, on Tuesday, paid homage on Tuesday to the late Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black leader, to mark the centenary of his birth.

Obama is in Kenya to launch a youth centre set up by his half-sister, Auma Obama.

The killing came barely 24 hours after the visit of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, to Nigeria.

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Wednesday declared that the killing of Nigerians and other foreign nationals in the country was an act of criminality, not specifically targeted at Nigerians.

The South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Wednesday said the South African government was not in support of xenophobia attacks on Nigerians and other countries.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that President Buhari received the visiting South African leader at the fore court of the Aso Rock at about 3 p.m.

Onyeama told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday that South African President Ramaphosa would arrive in Abuja for a working visit to Nigeria.

Femi Kuti, Tiwa Savage, Wizkid and Dbanj have been listed to perform alongside Music super couple Beyoncé & Jay-Z, at Global Festival‘s Mandela 100 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Nigeria Mission in South Africa had on Sunday confirmed the killing of Ozumba Tochukwu-Lawrence, by an unknown gunman in the country.

Consul-General of Nigeria in South Africa made this known in a statement by the Vice Consul Information and Culture, David Abraham, on Sunday in Abuja.

He made the declaration during the second National Committee on Export Promotion Meeting in Lagos.

England have found renewed consistency in their limited overs form to claim the top spot in the ODI rankings and Morgan believes a flexible line-up would prepare them for different scenarios.

“When our ambulance arrived on the scene, we followed all the procedures,” Gerrit Bradnick, operations manager at ambulance service Distress Alert, told dpa.

Born of Lithuanian immigrants in Johannesburg’s gold reef, Goldblatt gained international recognition in the 1960s and 70s as apartheid laws took hold in South Africa, culminating in the 1976 Soweto youth uprising.

The Springboks trailed England 24-3 after a bewildering opening 17 minutes in the first test at Ellis Park as the tourists cut through their defence at will.

Rodney Saunders’ body was identified in April after it was found in a river, but the body of his wife Rachel had not been found until now.

Provincial spokesperson, Andre Traut, said police rushed to the scene and found two worshippers stabbed to death.

The 35-year-old made the observation on arrival in Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday.

Hangwani Mulaudzi, Spokesman of police’s elite “Hawks” unit, said in Johannesburg that the police raided the bank’s branches in Johannesburg and Durban and took documents showing bank transactions involving South African state firms.