Business

MTN Group expects 90% profits hike for 2018 financial year

Ihesiulo Grace 5 March 2019 0

A telecommunications company, MTN Group expects to increase profits by as much as 90 per cent in 2018, as the company continues to recover from regulatory challenges in Nigeria. The South African-based company announced it will surpass analyst projection which was curated based on MTN’s dispute

Business

Humphrey Nwugo heads Afreximbank S’Africa Regional Office

Ihesiulo Grace 26 February 2019 0

Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has appointed Humphrey Nwugo as Regional Chief Operating Officer for its Harare-based Southern Africa Regional Office. Mr Nwugo had been serving in an acting capacity in that position since February 2018, following the departure of the previous Regional Chief Operating Officer. Afreximbank Global Director,

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Nigerian consulate in Jo’burg dismantles passport racketeers

Ihesiulo Grace 6 December 2018 0

The Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, has dismantled the “web of powerful passport racketeers” that had operated around its premises for many years. Consequently, applicants for Nigerian passports at the consulate can now collect the documents within one week, according to the Consul-General, Mr. Godwin Adama. Addressing newsmen in Johannesburg on

Crime News

How 20,336 people were murdered in S/Africa in one year

Ihesiulo Grace 11 September 2018 0

South African Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, said 20,336 murders were recorded in the country from 2017 to 2018 period, adding “South Africa is close to being a war zone”. NAN reports that 19,016 murders were recorded between April 2016 to March 2017. Presenting the statistics, Cele said: “never again can we come here to […]

Africa News

10 quotes from Nelson Mandela on what would have been his 100th birthday

Ihesiulo Grace 18 July 2018 0

South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela became the country’s first black president in 1994. He fought racism without violence, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for dismantling South Africa’s apartheid system. He died at the age of 95 in Johannesburg. In the autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, published the year his presidential term started, […]

News

Presidency worries over killing of another Nigerian in S/Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 9 July 2018 0

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has expressed worry over the killing of another Nigerian in South Africa. The Nigeria Mission in South Africa had on Sunday confirmed the killing of Mr Ozumba Tochukwu-Lawrence, by an unknown gunman in the country. The Nigeria Consulate-General in South […]

Africa News

Nigerians plan protest in South Africa, at home over threat to kill citizen

Ihesiulo Grace 24 May 2018 0

…Say suspect’s mother subverting Police action A section of the Nigerian community in South Africa is currently agitated and plans to stage a massive protest in that country and Nigeria over alleged physical abuse and threat to kill of a 25-year old Nigerian resident in that country by the son of a powerful female politician […]

Africa News

Nigerian shot dead in South Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 14 April 2018 0

The Nigerian community in South Africa has reported the extra-judicial killing of a Nigerian man in that country. The victim identified as ThankGod Okoro from Ogbaku in the Awgu local government area of Enugu state, is the latest in what has been described as recurring pre-meditated murders of young Nigerians in South Africa. At least […]

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Zuma may face 18 count charges for misappropriation of funds

Ihesiulo Grace 17 February 2018 0

South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, may have resigned as the president of South Africa but he faces an uncertain future as he may face an 18 count charge of misappropriation of funds and arms deal scandal. According to AF Press, Zuma faces 18 criminal charges over 783 payments he received linked to a multi-billion rand in […]

News

Reasons Nigerians are killed in South Africa – foreign ministry

Ihesiulo Grace 15 February 2018 0

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that most violent conflicts and killings of Nigerians in South Africa were more of criminal activities than xenophobic attack Tope Elias-Fatile, the ministry’s spokesperson, according to NAN stated this while briefing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja on a wide range of issues and activities of the ministry. Mr. […]

Africa News

South Africa: ANC To Hold Talks On Zuma’s Future

Ihesiulo Grace 5 February 2018 0

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will hold an emergency meeting today to discuss President Jacob Zuma’s future as head of state. The meeting was called after overnight talks with the scandal-plagued 75-year-old failed to secure his departure. Zuma, in power since 2009, has faced growing pressure to resign since he was replaced as […]

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Xenophobia: Nigerian shot dead in South Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 20 January 2018 0

A 27-year-old Nigerian, Emeka Okori, based in South Africa, is the latest victim of the killings in that country. Bartholomew Eziagulu, chairman of the Nigerians in Kwazulu Natal province of South Africa, told NAN that the victim was a native of Umunze in Orumba north local government area of Anambra State. He quoted a witness […]

Africa Politics

Cyril Ramaphosa emerge as leader of South Africa’s ANC

Ihesiulo Grace 19 December 2017 0

As the wind of party democracy continues to blow around Africa, the ruling party in South Africa has elected Cyril Ramaphosa to lead the African National Congress (ANC) Although the ANC congress looked acrimonious but well-planned, the Vice President of the country, Ramaphosa, emerged as the new leader of the party. Mr. Ramaphosa was a […]

Sports

South Africa wins Pentathlon YOG Qualifiers

Ihesiulo Grace 14 December 2017 0

Argentina 2018 Modern Pentathlon Youth Olympic Games (YOG) qualifiers and the Senior African Championship ended in Lagos with South Africa topping the medal table with 3 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medal. Luke Bradly, Rhys Poovan and Alida Vander Marwe were responsible for South Africa’s 3 gold medals while Jean Fanantwerpen, Bradly Luke and […]

News

Why South Africans must end hostilities to Nigerians now

Ihesiulo Grace 26 November 2017 0

His Royal Highness, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare II, has appealed to South African Government to take measures to end hostility toward Nigerians in that country. The Oba of Benin made the call at a reception and Cultural display held in his honour by Edo indigenes residing in Abuja on Saturday. […]

Business

S’Africa joins Afreximbank as shareholder

Ihesiulo Grace 22 November 2017 0

…. Becomes 47th member In a bid to show its commitment to promoting intra-African trade and economic integration, South Africa has taken up shareholding in the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the African continental multilateral trade finance institution. With the shareholding, South Africa becomes the 47th African country to join Afreximbank as a

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Again two Nigerians killed in South Africa within 48 hours

Ihesiulo Grace 14 November 2017 0

The Nigerian community in South Africa has confirmed the vicious killing of two members in that country within 48 hours, barely a month after President Jacob Zuma was honoured by the Imo Government. In October, a Nigerian man was shot dead in South Africa over an alleged 300 Rand (about N7,500) parking lot debt. No […]

Africa News

Two Nigerians killed in South Africa within 48 hours

Ihesiulo Grace 14 November 2017 0

Grief-stricken Nigerian community in South Africa has confirmed the vicious killing of two members in that country within 48 hours barely a month after President Jacob Zuma was honoured by the Imo Government. In October, a Nigerian man was shot dead in South Africa over an alleged 300 Rand (about N7,500) parking lot debt. No […]

Celebrities Entertainment

SA rapper ‘accidentally’ shows penis on Instagram live Emptee

Ihesiulo Grace 31 October 2017 0

There’s strong reaction in the South African press after local rapper Emtee accidentally exposed his penis on Instagram Live. Times Live says the rapper, whose full name is Mthembeni Ndevu, has “stood tall despite the frenzy that erupted around leaked pictures of his manhood”. While entertainment site ZAlebs says people have been recreating the situation

Africa

South Africa farmers jailed for coffin abuse

Ihesiulo Grace 27 October 2017 0

Two white farmers in South Africa who forced a black man into a coffin have been sentenced to jail for more than 10 years each. Theo Martins Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen were convicted in August for attempted murder and kidnapping. They accused Victor Mlotshwa of trespassing on their land, beat him up, made him get […]