Israeli public support for the war on Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon has been so overwhelming it has become hard to tell the doves from the hawks in the Jewish state’s fractious society.
The Nigerian government on Wednesday dismissed three senior officials at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (Luth), where a baby was infected with HIV/Aids. Health Minister Eyitayo Lambo said Luth’s chief medical director, chief medical laboratory scientist and an official in haematology department of the hospital had all been sacked over the incident.
Two musical dinosaurs hit the wall last week — and Top of the Pops wasn’t one of them. Metallica, rock monsters who had hitherto refused to play nicely with the net, finally relented under increasing pressure and stocked iTunes with their back catalogue after years of being the industry’s premier refuseniks.
A Malawian court on Wednesday gave a two-year jail sentence to a principal secretary earlier suspended for corruption, making him the most senior bureaucrat to be netted in a sweeping anti-graft drive. High court Judge Richard Chinangwa found Sam Safuli guilty of ”aiding and abetting the theft of public funds”.
Nigeria has approved a national building code to stem a spate of building collapses that have claimed dozens of lives in recent months, officials said on Thursday. The code was approved on Wednesday during a Cabinet meeting presided over by President Olusegun Obasanjo, Information Minister Frank Nweke said.
The new Auditing Profession Act has delivered a "world-class" regulator says Kariem Hoosain, CEO of the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA), speaking at the launch of the IRBA. Hoosain said: "I have just returned from a trip to Canada where the senior partner of one of the largest international audit firms told me the IRBA was in his opinion the strongest regulator in the world."
Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu had a penchant for the "phantom openings" of non-existent projects and for ignoring the fundamental problems facing housing in the Western Cape, said official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon at the Delft settlement on Thursday.
Media and entertainment group Primedia has acquired a 50,05% shareholding in Exactmobile, a wireless application service provider and the leading mobile content provider in South Africa. Primedia said on Thursday that Exactmobile had a strong brand with high recognition amongst the 13-24 demographic and a large national footprint.
A Norwegian man who "drove" 2m after accidentally releasing his car’s hand brake while fumbling drunk got a stiff fine and a 15-day suspended jail sentence, Norway’s supreme court said on Thursday. Jarle Torgeir Kjoerren (46) got into his BMW while drunk with a blood alcohol level of 1,8g — several times the 0,2g legal limit in Norway.
Buyelwa Sonjica, the Minister of Minerals and Energy Affairs, has welcomed the findings of an inquest that found the negligence on the part of Northam Platinum could not be ruled out in the deaths of nine workers in an underground fire at the company’s Zondereinde mine near Thabazimbi two years ago.