The leader of South Africa's biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday to bring Africa's No. 1 economy "to a standstill" and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month labor crisis. The rand, which tumbled to a four-year low against the dollar on Thursday on fears of a strike at Anglo American Platinum, extended its slide on concerns about further disruptio ...

A security expert, Max Gbanite has said Nigerians have failed the law enforcement and military agencies who are fighting the current insurgency in the country. Speaking on Channels Television's breakfast show Sunrise Daily, Mr Gbanite said from the 2013 budget, the Ministry of Finance has given the security agency 20 percent of the funds to secure the nation. He said Nigerians have failed the military agenc ...

Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku has accused media houses of serving as puppets to politicians in Nigeria. Speaking as a guest on Sunrise Daily, a programme on Channels Television, Maku said "Unfortunately we have allowed our political biases to infiltrate sometimes the media that we own". Maku who claimed to be a journalist further said "if you pick newspapers today, from the headlines you will kno ...

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria will on Monday lead a team of key members of Nigeria’s Economic Management Team to the World Economic Forum on Africa holding in Cape Town, South Africa. The Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Reuben Abati in a press release described the trip as part of the president’s efforts to promote rapid national economic growth and development; as well as ...

South Africa suspended a senior foreign ministry official on Thursday after a charter plane carrying nearly 200 guests for the wedding of a family with close ties to President Jacob Zuma used an Air Force base without proper military permission. The scandal over Tuesday's flight from India to the Waterkloof Air Force Base near Pretoria has dominated South African media, with newspapers and radio phone-in ca ...

The Akwa Ibom Governor, Godswill Akpabio has described statements credited to Senator Aloysius Etok of Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District where he made “spurious allegations that the State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio was after his life,” as ‘unfortunate.’ In a press statement sent by the State commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, Akpabio dismissed the allegations as “parano ...

The General Officer Commanding, 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Garba Wahab said on Friday that the spate of bombings and other terrorist attacks in some parts of the north is reducing drastically due to the efforts and commitment of military and other joint security personnel operations in the region. He said that peace and security is returning to some of the states where the Boko Haram ins ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has stated that relations between Nigeria and South Africa have been cordial and would be deepened and strengthened. Receiving the new South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Lulu Louis Aaron Mnguni, who was in the State House, Abuja to present his letter of credence, President Jonathan said the two countries are a strong force to be reckoned with on the African continent ...

Senator Florence Ita Giwa yesterday confirmed 17 people missing and many displaced at the St Mark Primary School, Eyo Edem in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State where refugees are camped. Senator Giwa who visited the refugee camp said the people were those attacked by the Cameroonian Gendarmes in Efut Obot Ikot village. According to her, the people, last month, had to escape, spending sever ...

The National Coordinator of the Legal Defence And Assistance Project (LEDAP), Chino Obiagwu has said that the hearing for the case filed by the organisation against the Code of Conduct Bureau has been fixed for April 4 2013 by the Federal High Court Abuja. LEDAP had filed a suit in July 2012 against the Code of Conduct Bureau demanding copies of the asset declarations of all federal ministers, state governo ...