Anim Van Wyk

Calling the low enrolment figures for an entrance exam "all shades of sad!", Nigerian writer Temitayo Olofinlua asked Africa Check to verify the figures reported by Punch newspaper.According to Punch, “[o]nly 28 candidates registered for common entrance exam in Zamfara” by 3 March 2018.Pupils w...

News of animals purportedly stealing money in Nigeria have been making news waves in the past month.First, a snake supposedly swallowed N36 million (US$118,000) saved in the vault of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board office in Makurdi, Benue state, in early February. Then a popular federal law...

Replying to the debate on his State of the Nation address, South Africa’s newly-minted president Cyril Ramaphosa said that concerns about white people being excluded from opportunities musn’t be ignored or “just willy-nilly” dismissed.He was referring to Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Groe...

The image is gruesome. Blood-spattered bodies are strewn along a highway, passengers of a bus that never reached its destination. Messages on social media and apps say they were victims of herdsmen from Nigeria’s Fulani community. The messages seemed to have credence, containing a signed security ...