AT least 27 people were killed on Monday in a massacre in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, State Governor Abdullahi Adamu told reporters on Wednesday. We lost a substantial number of people … There were 27 people confirmed dead and we had yesterday 47 on admission,” in a hospital in the state capital Lafia, […]
THE Department of Public Works has launched a toll free Ethics Hotline, government announced on Thursday, as part of “its national strategy to fight corruption and improve its service delivery.” According to a department press release, the hotline forms part of a strategy that includes education, prevention and prosecution. Information can be submitted to the […]
ACTING Opec president Chakib Khelil of Algeria on Tuesday appeared to rule out an increase in oil production in the near future. “We can see that oil reserves are currently at their highest level, that there is a lot of crude on the market and sufficient petrol despite the halt in Iraq’s exports of crude,” […]
JEAN-MICHEL STOULLIG, Washington | Thursday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki used his visit to the United States to show his commitment to fight the plague of Aids in his country, but was unable to quiet critics of his controversial positions on the disease. The president kept the disease front and centre during his trip, discussing […]
SEVEN foreign firms and a Nigerian company are seeking to invest in the 51% equity put up for sale in Nigeria’s ship-building and repair company, Nigerdock, officials said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s privatisation agency, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) received the applications before the June 18 close of bidding, BPE representative Joseph Anichebe said. The […]
Mbabane | Thursday THREE youths from southern Swaziland were found guilty by a traditional Swazi court on Wednesday of carrying out a rampage of attacking single women while disguised as primates. The youths, wearing baboon suits, had demanded food and sex from single and widowed women, after invading their homes in the Ezikhotheni area at […]
THE South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Northern Province officially launched its Red Weekend Against Blacklisting campaign in Pietersburg on Tuesday. Provincial SACP secretary Justice Piitso said the campaign, which is demanding that banks provide easier access to credit and that credit bureaus be regulated, is part of the SACP programme of Mass Mobilisation […]
THE Ministry of Social Development has announced the death of another inmate at the Noupoort Christian rehabilitiation unit for drug and alcohol addicts. The latest death was that of a 15-year-old, Theo Hurley. Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has ordered an urgent investigation into the death, the second in two months at the centre which […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Tudun Adabu | Thursday RESIDENTS of this village in a remote corner of central Nigeria say that 58 people died when ethnic Tiv youths attacked the area two days ago, the worst single reported massacre in a spate of ethnic killing. News of the massacre in Tudun Abadu when it reached the Nasarawa […]
Cape Town | Thursday A 71-year-old man who played Father Christmas at a Cape Town children’s hospital last year appeared in court Wednesday on child porn charges. Police representative Captain Rod Beer said more than 5_000 photographs depicting children as young as four in sexual acts with adults were discovered on James McNeil’s computers. Members […]