Hundreds of members of the group Boko Haram have surrendered, a Nigerian military spokesman said Wednesday in Abuja. The captures came after clashes with Boko Haram in northern Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon, Major General Chris Olukolade said. He said that military forces had killed a reported lookalike for Boko Haram[…]
Now is not the time to discuss the granting of a visa allowing Nigerian preacher TB Joshua to enter South Africa, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Wednesday. He was responding to a question on what government planned to do about a call to deny the man in[…]
A five-step process of identification is underway on the bodies of the South Africans killed in the Nigeria church building collapse, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Wednesday. Updating reporters in Pretoria on the situation, he said this was a “methodical and time consuming process, and one would[…]
The ANC Youth League on Monday sent condolences to the people who died when a church building collapsed in Nigeria. “The ANC Youth League, on behalf of the progressive young people of South Africa, passes its heartfelt condolences to all families and friends of people who lost their lives at[…]
Nigerian preacher TB Joshua on Sunday said he would travel to South Africa in the coming weeks to meet families and survivors of a building collapse at his church that killed scores. A guesthouse at Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on September 12 as more floors were being[…]
South Africans needing help finding relatives following the building collapse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria, should contact charity Gift of the Givers, it said on Friday. Following a radio interview early Friday evening, founder Imtiaz Sooliman said he received calls from five people wanting to[…]
The number of South Africans killed in a building collapse in Nigeria has increased from 67 to 84, SABC radio news reported on Friday. South Africa’s high commissioner to Nigeria, Lulu Louis Mnguni, told the state broadcaster in an interview on Friday morning the death toll had gone up to[…]
While family members anxiously wait on any news from loved ones, information from Nigeria has been a total blackout, after a building collapsed in Lagos last Friday. Relief organization Gift of the Givers reported on Wednesday that their representatives in Lagos had been chased away, after trying to assist a[…]
Over 200 South Africans survived the building collapse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (Scoan) in Lagos, South Africa’s High Commissioner in Nigeria said on Thursday. “There are 265 South African survivors. Initially there were 96 injured South Africans, but now there are only 29 still in hospital, including[…]
Boko Haram insurgents have been blamed after at least 13 people died during a shoot-out between police and suspected suicide bombers at a teacher training college in northern Nigeria on Wednesday. Kano State police commissioner Adelere Shinaba said the “insurgents”, ran into the Federal College of Education after exchanging fire with[…]
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