NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday called for increased foreign investment in the country’s petroleum, oil and gas sectors. “Nigeria needs all the foreign investment it can get, in order to stimulate its economy for growth”, Obasanjo told a visiting delegation from US oil giants, EXXON corporation, said spokesman Doyin Okupe. Harry Longwell, EXXON’s senior […]
AT least three people were killed when Ethiopian soldiers attacked and captured the Somali town of Garbaharey in the Gedo region of southern Somalia on Monday, according to local sources. An official in Somalia’s capital said that the attack was carried out by a mechanised column of some 500 Ethiopian troops, according to residents contacted […]
THE Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced higher bills of 100, 200 and 500 for the naira as part of measures to restructure the currency, the bank said in a report on Tuesday. The CBN said President Olusegun Obasanjo has approved the new bills, which are expected to be in circulation between now and middle […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. ANGRY Eerste River residents on Monday night demolished a derelict house believed to be used as a Naughty Boys gang stronghold after a 14-year-old girl was gang-raped and stabbed there at the weekend. Valencia Farmer died in Tygerberg Hospital on Monday after uttering the names of two of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vosloorus | Sunday 8.00pm. ATLETICO Madrid midfielder Quinton Fortune converted a penalty to give South Africa a 1-0 victory over Togo on Sunday and a place in the second phase of the Olympic Games qualifiers. South Africa advanced 3-2 on aggregate following a 2-2 draw in Lome two weeks ago and will play […]
BELGIUM put in place a hastily arranged plan of action on Monday after Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened to unleash a “bloodbath” unless the authorities release several of its leaders. The units taking part in the anti-terrorist cell include a top police unit called Interforce, set up after terrorist attacks in the 1980s by […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.155pm. THE South African government on Tuesday joined international calls for the Turkish government to commute Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan’s death sentence. Ocalan, head of the Kurdish Workers’ Party, was sentenced to death by a Turkish court on Tuesday morning for treason. The department of foreign affairs said in […]
THE United States has reopened five of six embassies in Africa that Washington ordered closed last week on fears of terrorist attacks. Business has been resumed at the embassies in Namibia, Liberia, Senegal, Togo and Gambia. The US embassy in Madagascar remains shut, but US government officials say this will be reviewed shortly. On Friday, […]
ZIMBABWEAN police were last week forced to wait for a fellow officer to either vomit or otherwise produce crucial incriminating evidence of bribery. Two officers stood guard last week over a fellow policeman they had just arrested for accepting two Z$100 bills, which he swallowed, and waited for him to release it by whatever means. […]
THE town clerk of Secunda, who is supposed to make sure everyone pays their electricity bills, has been cut off himself for tampering with his meter. Billy Ralabipi’s own officials discovered the tampering during a routine check on defaulters, and fined him R3500 that has not been paid. On Friday the town’s head of electrical […]