President Jacob Zuma of South Africa arrived Nigeria last night on a two day state visit.
He was received by former vice President Atiku Abubakar and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama.
During his visit, Zuma will have bilateral talks with President Buhari, meet with the Nigerian...
South Africa's highest court has rejected Oscar Pistorius's right to appeal against his conviction for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The Constitutional Court ruled the Paralympian had no reasonable grounds of success with his legal fight.
Pistorius now faces a possible...
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South Africa government has opened the continent’s first solar-powered airport.
George Airport located in Western Cape serves over 600,000 passengers annually, has launched a clean energy project which, during its first phase, will contribute around 40% of the airport’s electricity needs. Once...
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The South African finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, earlier today, said the country's economy is 'in crisis'.
The comments came ahead of his Budget speech, in which he cut the country's growth forecast for 2016 to 0.9%, down from 1.7%.
He conceded the economy is struggling with shrinking...
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South Africa confirmed its first case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in a Columbian man, health authorities said.
The virus, which is causing international alarm after spreading through much of the Americas, was detected in the man on his visit to Johannesburg, Health Minister Aaron...
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Nearly 80 rescued miners were brought to the surface on Friday, police said, after about 115 were trapped underground following a collapse at a gold mine in northeastern South Africa earlier in the day.
Mike McChesney, chief executive of the small gold producer Vantage Goldfields told Reuters...
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26-year-old, twin sisters Owami and Olwethu Mzazi from South Africa, have allegedly married the same husband.
According to reports, this didn’t come as a surprise, as the twins had always dreamt of marrying the same man.
The 26 year old twins are married to 51 year old Mzukiseni Mzazi...
Nigerian music star, Davido, has said he is of the opinion that the social media bill be passed into law.
The artist was reacting to a recent circulated post claiming that the HKN singer may be expecting a baby number two out of wedlock following claims from a certain South African woman that...
According to BBC, Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail while he waits to be sentenced for murdering his girlfriend in 2013.
That hearing should take place next year on 18 April and being asked to pay 10,000 rand ($700, £450) for his bail.
He will be under house arrest and will be...
Oscar Pistorius is set to appear in court on Tuesday to apply for bail following his conviction for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
A justice department official stated this on Monday.
“The bail application hearing for Oscar Pistorius has been set down for tomorrow at 9.30 am (0730 GMT)...
President Muhammadu Buhari and his South African counterpart, President Jacob Zuma, are to meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss MTN’s $5.2billion fine among other issues, South Africa-based Sunday Times has reported.
Both leaders are expected to meet and discuss the fine along the...
The South African government may jail Nigerian-born pastor, Chris Oyakhilome if his church, Christ Embassy, fails to release its financial records, the South African-based News24 is reports.
The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities said...
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Pope Francis will make his first entry into the Africa soil on November 25 to 30, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic since he became Pope.
The Vatican said the Pope had been invited by the heads of state and local bishops to visit each of those countries.
Pope Paul VI...
Controversial South African pastor, Penuel Mnguni, of the End Time Disciples Ministries was beaten up by some angry youths in Mmakaunyane Village in the North Western part of South Africa last Sunday.
During the attack, the youths burnt down his church and tied him and a member of his church up...
The captain of the Nigerian Rugby Football team, Azeez Ladipo, has disclosed that the confidence of the Nigerian players in the South African camp is high ahead of the Olympics qualifiers in Pool B this weekend.
It is no longer new that Nigeria are in the same group with the likes of Zambia...
Head coach of the Nigeria’s U-20 women's national team, Peter Dedevbo has attributed his side's 1-0 win over the South African women's U20 team to hard work.
Chinwendu Ihezuo's 16th minute strike gave the Falconets a ticket to the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup on Sunday, and the coach...
Few days after the Nigerian Communications Commission slammed a N1.4 trillion penalty on MTN Nigeria for failure to disconnect customers with unregistered SIM cards, Parent company MTN group has cried out that the fine was too extreme, even as it continues to engage the regulator on how to...
Just as women in politics and business are celebrated everyday, female pilots in Africa should be celebrated as well.
See the names and countries of these amazing first female pilots on the Africa's continent. The recent person is Ouma Laouali, 28-year-old from Niger. She was trained to...
Students have been rallying at South Africa's universities since Oct. 13 to oppose a planned 11.5 per cent tuition hike, with public investment in education declining across the country.
Protests came to a head on Wednesday, when students in Cape Town marched on Parliament and clashed with...
Protesters occupied Shoprite in Khayelitsha Mall in South Africa on Tuesday morning, demanding a reduction in the price of bread, according to GroundUp. The store was closed during the occupation.
The protesters were eventually escorted out of the store by private security guards in bulletproof...
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