Tag: South Africa
Second wave: South Africa imposes fresh restrictions
South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from Tuesday after a surge in coronavirus cases, as the World Health Organization...
COVID-19: Italy records, 969 deaths, Spain, 769 in one day
As British PM tests
positive
Italy on Friday recorded the most daily deaths of any country
since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and Spain had its...
Land, land every where. . .
Kole Omotoso
South Africa has a land area of 471,445 sq. miles. The
population is about 55 million of which 80% are Black and 8.4% are...
Digging deeper into ‘xenophobia madness’
Tunji Olaopa
This piece was instigated at the instance of the recent
roundtable organized by my department in Lead City University, Ibadan to
celebrate the 77th birthday...
Xenophobia: Buhari leads 14-man delegation to South Africa
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday departed Abuja with a
14-man delegation for a three-day official visit to South Africa.
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday embark...
Air peace gets approval to operate scheduled flights to South Africa
The ministry of foreign affairs said on Monday that the South
African government had granted Air Peace the request to commence commercial
flights to Johannesburg.
The confirmation...
Xenophobia: Second batch of 315 Nigerians return from South Africa
Another
batch of 315 Nigerians leaving South Africa arrived in Nigeria yesterday aboard
a B777 aircraft operated by Air Peace.
The exercise
came eight days after 187 Nigerians...
Evacuation of 320 Nigerians from SA shelved to Wednesday
The second batch of 320 Nigerian evacuees from South Africa owing
to xenophobic attacks suffered a hitch on Tuesday following the delay in
granting landing permit...
Air Peace airlifts 320 Nigerian xenophobia attack victims from SA Tuesday
The management of Air Peace has concluded plans to airlift the
second batch of 320 Nigerians from South Africa on Tuesday, September 17.
The chairman and...
Air Peace has not called off airlift of Nigerian victims of...
The management of Air Peace has denied the suspension of evacuation
of Nigerian victims of xenophobia South Africa.
The chairman and chief executive of Air Peace,...