More than 900 miners are trapped down a goldmine in South Africa’s Free State province, a union said on Thursday. The miners got stuck on Wednesday night due to a power outage, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said, calling on the company involved, Sibanye-Stillwater, to step up rescue efforts. Forty miners have […]
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Nigeria’s U-20 female team, the Falconets, on Saturday in Benin qualified for the Female World Cup in France after a six-goal victory over Basetsana, their South African counterparts. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Falconets, who won 2-0 in the first leg a fortnight ago in South Africa, qualified on an eight-goal […]
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South African trumpeter, jazz artist and music legend, Hugh Masekela, is dead. The ace musician died of prolonged prostrate cancer at the age of 78. His death was announced on Twitter today by South Africa’s minister of arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa. “A baobab tree has fallen, the nation has lost a one of a […]
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The policemen responsible for the death of one Ebuka Okori, a Nigerian who lived in South Africa, have been remanded in prison. Okori was allegedly killed by two members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), on Friday. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, said the Nigeria consulate in […]
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The Nigerian community in South Africa has alleged that a 27-year old member, Ebuka Okori, was killed by the police in Durban in the early hours of Friday. Bartholomew Eziagulu, the Chairman of the Nigerian Union chapter in Kwazulu Natal Province of South Africa, disclosed from Durban that the victim was a native of Umunze […]
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The Nigerian Union in South Africa say six guest houses owned by their members were burnt during attacks against Nigerians in Rustenburg, North West Province of South Africa. The Chairman of the union in the Province, Paul Nwanedo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the telephone from Rustenburg, on Thursday that the attackers […]
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The Nigerian mission in South Africa has confirmed the killing of a 25-year-old Nigerian, Mr Ibrahim Olalekan Badmus, a native of Lagos state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the killing occurred less than a week after Mr Jelili Omoyele, a 35 year –old cellular phone technician was shot dead at Doornfontein, near […]
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Nigeria’s economy will grow faster than that of South Africa in 2017, this is according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is a reverse from the fund’s earlier projection in July that South Africa’s economy will grow by 1% in 2017 while Nigeria will experience a 0.8% economic expansion. Speaking on Tuesday during the […]
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Five South African policemen arraigned in court on Friday for robbing a Nigerian man of the sum of 61,000 US Dollars. Four of the accused have since been dismissed from the police service over the incident and are also being prosecuted following an investigation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, IPID. The five former policemen […]
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Kingsley Ikeri, a businessman from Imo state, has been killed in Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal province, according to to the Nigeria union in South Africa. Ikeri, 27, was reportedly killed on Wednesday. Bartholomew Eziagulu, chairman of the union in the province told NAN, that the businessman was allegedly tortured to death by police officers. […]
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