Alhaji Aliko Dangote A row is brewing between Zambia and Dangote Cement, a major employer in Africa’s second largest copper producer, after a government minister accused an executive at the local unit of the Nigerian company of attempting to bribe him. The dispute appears to be the latest in a string of incidents in which […]
President Jacob Zuma Sixty-seven South Africans died in the building collapse that occurred at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria, President Jacob Zuma said in a statement on Tuesday. Scores more sustained injuries when the six-storey building belonging to the church collapsed on Friday. Zuma said ” This is a particularly difficult time for […]
An integrated payments company, Interswitch, says it has offered ten Nigerians who had interest in technology and Information Technology full year scholarships to the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Accra, Ghana. A statement made available to Saturday PUNCH by Ayeni Adekunle on behalf of the company said the Interswitch-MEST partnership, which marks the first time non-Ghanaian […]
by Olaleye Aluko There was confusion on Bankole Street, Isheri-Oke, Lagos on Friday morning when residents woke up to the sight of a woman hanging on a tree. The woman, popularly called Kate in the area, was found dead in a black sweater and orange skirt under a pear tree. Our correspondent, who also visited […]
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide after the judge found he killed his girlfriend by mistake. Judge Thokozile Masipa said the athlete acted “negligently” when he fired shots through a toilet door, but in the “belief that there was an intruder”. She said the state had failed to prove […]
*Worked in Sierra-Leone, Guinea, took ill at MMA, Lagos *Beware of fake test kits, sanitizers — FG *OAU bars foreign students from returning for semester By Lawani Mikairu, Favour Nnabugwu, Gbenga Olarinoye & Daniel Eteghe LAGOS—A South African, suspected of showing symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, as she arrived Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos yesterday, has been […]
Russia said on Thursday that unilateral US airstrikes on jihadists in Syria would be a crude violation of international law. “In the absence of an appropriate decision of the UN Security Council, such a step would become an act of aggression, a crude violation of the norms of international law,” said Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesman […]
Cameroon’s claims this week that two Tuareg fighters were among the dead when troops bombarded Boko Haram positions have sparked fresh interest in the group’s links to the wider jihadi network. Communication minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary did not elaborate on the nationality of the foreigners, who were among the more than 100 killed during an […]
(FREETOWN, Sierra Leone) Britain will send military and humanitarian experts to Sierra Leone to set up a medical treatment centre to care for victims of the Ebola outbreak there, the British High Commission said on its Twitter feed on Monday. The epidemic in West Africa – the worst in the disease’s history – has killed […]
Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their second child, royal officials confirmed on Monday. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news,” the statement said. As with her first pregnancy for son, George, now one, Kate is suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a […]
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