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Funding is available to support school attendance projects in the territory

A new rental development has opened its doors in Whitehorse

Paul Umuche, a 26-year-old Nigerian student, heard a huge explosion from his apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Anti-foreigner sentiment may be an election-winning issue come 2024. But African immigrants deserve better

By Patrick Egwu This investigation is on the unresolved killing of three Nigerian journalists while on assignments between 2019-2020. For six months,

Nigeria has one of the highest rates of human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa. But a very organized and active network of Catholic sisters is determined to change that by providing help to survivors...

Vaccination of healthcare workers restarts On Wednesday, 28 April, the vaccination of South Africa’s healthcare workers resumed after the Department of Health approved the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine once again. The use was paused for health authorities to investigate a possible link between the jab and an extremely rare type of blood clot. The roll-out was paused for 15 days, during which no healthcare workers were vaccinated. By Friday, 20 April another 15,600 healthcare w...

COVID-19 latest: Bus company staff suspended for sale of fake tests A bus company worker has been suspended for selling fake COVID-19 tests/results travellers at the Johannesburg Park Station. Bus company staff has been suspended after an investigation by the Daily Maverick revealed that fake COVID-19 tests are sold to passengers travelling to neighbouring countries from Johannesburg Park Station. In an interview with Cape Talk Radio, investigative reporter Patrick Egwu revealed that a frien...

Fake Covid-19 test results sold to cross-border bus passengers for R300: report 26 April 2021 11:48 AM Share This: Daily Maverick reporter Patrick Egwu went undercover to expose the sale of fake Covid-19 test results to travelers at Park Station in the Joburg CBD. In a matter of minutes, reporter Patrick Egwu was able to secure two fake Covid-19 test results from two bus companies for a total of R700. For as little as R300, SA travelers to Zimbabwe, Malawi, Lesotho can buy fake Covid-19 test re...

Egwu told Cape Talk that a friend who works in Zimbabwe had tipped him off about the sale of fake Covid-19 tests for just R300. He decided to go under cover to investigate the claim. Egwu told Cape Talk radio that he had received a threatening call from an unknown number since publishing his article. “I disguised as a traveller and said I am going to Park Station and that I am travelling to Zimbabwe and I need a Covid Test. They were able to sell me a Covid test even without collecting sample...