“We wish to warn that should any Southeast person be attacked anywhere in the world, we shall, by all means, bring back Kanu to Nigeria to face the wrath of our people,” the governors said.
Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu Saturday was assaulted in Nuremberg, Germany where he was
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The federal government has warned that the incessant and unjustifiable killing of Nigerians in South Africa will no longer be tolerated “as Nigerians are already running out of patience with the increasing scourge.”
The Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who handed down the warning in Abuja yesterday, stated that the xenophobic attacks had reached the tipping point.
Addressing journalists on the increasing attacks against Nigerians in the former apartheid enclave, Dabiri-Erewa stated, “we are reaching a tipping point where one more death of a Nigerian in South Africa will be unbearable to …
South African court on Friday acquitted Duduzane Zuma, the son of former president Jacob Zuma, of manslaughter charges over a fatal late-night car crash in 2014.
Duduzane, 35, had pleaded not guilty at a magistrates’ court in Johannesburg to causing the death of Phumzile Dube after his Porsche hit a minibus.
One woman died in the crash, three others were injured and another passenger died in hospital weeks later.
Magistrate Tebogo Thupaatlase said the state had failed to prove the manslaughter charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
“The accused is found not guilty,” he said.
“None of the evidence presented …
William Troost-Ekong’s late winner sent Nigeria through to the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday after a tense 2-1 victory over South Africa in Cairo.
Samuel Chukwueze fired the Super Eagles ahead in the first half in front of a healthy, largely pro-Nigerian crowd at the 75,000-capacity Cairo International Stadium.
But Bongani Zungu’s looping header brought South Africa level on 70 minutes, the goal awarded with the aid of VAR — introduced for the first time at the tournament from the quarter-final stage onwards — after it was initially ruled out for offside.
Centre-back Troost-Ekong then turned …
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Anglican Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, yesterday disagreed over Ruga Settlement in the South-East Zone.
IPOB, in a statement, had alleged that some governors of the South-East Zone have secretly allocated lands to herders for RUGA settlement.
It specifically pointed at Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and his Abia State counterpart, Okezie Ikpeazu, to have concluded arrangement to hand over land “in three senatorial zones of Enugu State and Olokoro in Umuahia to Fulani herdsmen as part of their Ruga programme in the East.”
But Chukwuma, who spoke yesterday during …
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on saturday, painted the picture of Nigeria as that of two countries in one: a developing South and a backward, less educated and unhealthy north, with the highest number of poor people in the world.
He also drew similarities between the development indicators of the North and those of war-torn Afghanistan.
The governor spoke at the Northern Youth Summit in Kaduna organised by Northern Hibiscus, an NGO.
He said that for the problems to be tackled effectively, the governors of all the 19 northern states have to work together.
His words: “Looking at the …
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra’s (IPOB) sit-at-home order on May 30, to honour their fallen heroes during the Nigerian-Biafran war of 1967 -1970 has completely paralysed commercial activities in all the five states namely, Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo in the South-East of Nigeria.
The people of South East adhered strictly to the order, and stayed home, this was in a bid to register their dismay at the marginalisation they have been experiencing from the Federal Government of Nigeria. The ill-treatment meted to the South – East has been on-going since over 50 years. And have been seeking their exist …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it is worried over the frightening dimension which cyber crime has assumed in the country, especially the South East.
The South East Zonal Head of the commission, Mr Usman Imam, expressed the worry on Friday in Enugu while briefing newsmen on the activities of EFCC in the first quarter of 2019.
Imam said that cases of cybercrime, popularly called ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ had become alarming in the zone.
“From investigations so far made, it is unfortunate that some parents are not only aware of their children’s involvements but even abet such terrible crime.…
The final tally of the South African election is out, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC), winning 57.51% of votes cast.
The website of the Electoral Commission, which showed 100 per cent capturing of the 17 668 318 votes cast, showed that the ANC polled 10 026 047 votes, which is less than the 11 million votes won in 2014.
Analysts said the electoral performance was the worst since the party came to power in 1994, with legendary Nelson Mandela as president.
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Elections officials in South Africa counted ballot papers in the early hours of Thursday, a day after a vote seen as the toughest test yet for the ruling African National Congress (ANC), 25 years after it swept to power at the end of white minority rule.
The elections for a new parliament and nine provincial legislatures are the first barometer of national sentiment since President Cyril Ramaphosa replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma as head of state in February 2018.
Forty eight parties took part in the election.
Ramaphosa is trying to arrest a slide in support for the ANC, which has …
South Sudan and South Africa will sign a production sharing agreement for an untapped exploration block in the East African country, South Sudan’s petroleum ministry said on Monday.
The ministry said in a statement in Jubai that Exploration Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) for Block B2 would be signed by Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, South Sudan’s Minister of Petroleum and Jeff Radebe, South Africa’s Minister of Energy.
A quarter of a century after the end of the apartheid in South Africa, large swathes of population still aren’t free given abject poverty and high unemployment and the scourge of corruption affecting the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.
Speaking at a ceremony in Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, in the south of the country, Ramaphosa said that South Africans were “gathered here to celebrate the day we won our freedom.”
The first democratic elections were held in South Africa on April 27, 1994, with blacks — who make up three quarters of the population — voting for the first …
