ENIWOKE IBAGERE , Lagos | Tuesday 6.00pm. SUNDAY Oliseh, Nigeria’s newly elected captain, said on Tuesday he is finding his new role a tough challenge. Juventus midfielder Oliseh was named team captain after striker Daniel Amokachi failed to make the African Nations Cup squad because of injury. Oliseh led Nigeria to a 4-2 victory over […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.30am. SHARES in Randgold Exploration Co lost 10% of their value on Tuesday as investors continued to shun the gold mining stable run by the Kebble family after a recent loan and share scandal. Randgold’s shares slumped 55 cents to 495 cents, bringing its losses since the controversial transaction to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.00pm. SOUTH Africa avenged Sunday’s emphatic loss to England with a one-run win over Nasser Hussain’s side on Wednesday night. England surged to victory by nine wickets in Bloemfontein on Sunday but on Wednesday at Newlands they fell tantalisingly short, reaching 203 for nine in reply to South Africa’s […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brussels | Tuesday 3.15pm. FIFA president Sepp Blatter vowed on Tuesday that there will never again be two host nations for the World Cup under his presidency as is the case for Japan and South Korea in 2002. Visiting Brussels to attend the FIFA World Player of the Year awards, Blatter said: “FIFA’s […]

EQYPTAIR CRASH EXPERTS probing the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which went down off the US Atlantic coast on October 31, have reached no conclusion about the cause of the tragedy. “No hypothesis for the cause of this accident has been accepted,” Jim Hall, Chairman of the National Transportation Safe Board said in a statement, […]

POET and journalist Antije Krog and stage director John Kani, were awarded the Hiroshima Prize in Stockholm on Sunday for their contributions to peace. The million kronor (about R700000) prize, to be shared by the two, was handed over at a ceremony at Stockholm’s Soeder theatre. Krog published a compilation of articles on the work […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Tuesday 8.30am. GOALKEEPER Alain Gouamene created history and saved former African Nations Cup winners Cote d’Ivoire from a humiliating defeat on Monday on the third day of the 2000 finals. Gouamene, penalty shootout hero of the 1992 cup-winning team, became the first footballer to play in seven editions of the biennial […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi, Ghana | Tuesday 8.30am. AN African Nations Cup goal flow which brought 16 in five matches dried up on Monday when Algeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo drew 0-0 in a Group B clash dominated by the North Africans. The result put 1996 champions South Africa clear at the top of […]

AT least 12 people were killed in an attack by armed Islamic militants in the region of Ain Defla, west of Algiers. Several newspapers reported 13 people were killed in Monday’s attack. Three other people were wounded, two seriously, and five young girls were kidnapped. The dead, including five women, were employed at a center […]

SUSTAINED automatic weapons fire broke out near the home of Central African Republic President Ange-Felix Patasse overnight, when uniformed youth militiamen marched on the residence, witnesses said on Monday. Panic spread among residents of Bangui when twice on Sunday evening live or tracer bullets were fired and volleys of teargas grenades unleashed. The shaven-headed youths […]