Opinion By Olayinka Oyebode It was a warm afternoon at the OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, sometimes in March 2013. Dr Kayode Fayemi and I were returning to Lagos after receiving the Samsung award for Best State Government in ICT Education at an impressive ceremony in Cape Town. Mr Governor, as he is…
South African Emerges Miss World
By Oluwabukunmi Raufu Rolene Strauss, 22, has won the Miss World 2014 beauty pageant in London on Sunday. This year’s pageant was the 64th but it was nearly marred by tragedy after a Honduran beauty queen was found shot dead in a suspected crime of passion, days before she was due to take part in…
Prosecutors To Appeal Pistorius Conviction
South African prosecutors were on Wednesday given the go ahead to appeal the culpable homicide verdict given to Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius for the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The prosecuting team would now seek a murder conviction. If convicted of murder, Pistorius would be open to a prison sentence of at least 15…