Tag Archives: S.Africa

Viewers: 90,008 By Spy Uganda Hundreds of university students on Friday brought activities to a standstill at the headquarters of MTN Nigeria in Abuja, staging a mass protest over alleged xenophobic attacks against Nigerians living in South Africa. The demonstration, organised by the National Association of University Students (NAUS), saw protesters block access roads leading to the telecommunications giant’s …

Viewers: 50,002 By Twiine Charles  There is something deeply unsettling about watching a nation once held up as the moral compass of a continent begin to lose its way. The recent wave of vigilante violence in Pretoria and other parts of South Africa forces a difficult question. Has the spirit of Ubuntu, the very philosophy that helped define the …

Africa’s so-called banking powerhouse, Nigeria’s Access Bank, is once again under the spotlight after another high-profile merger deal spectacularly collapsed—this time in South Africa. Barely months after Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank (FTB) was left gasping for air following a failed takeover promise, Access Bank has now walked away from a Sh625.4 billion agreement to acquire 100% of Bidvest Bank Holdings …