Nigerian wholesalers who’d turned off the taps claiming they’re owed a billion dollars by government have reached a deal with the finance minister, Danladi Fasali.
About to relinquish Nigeria’s reins of power, Goodluck Jonathan’s accused of handing over a country in crisis. Fuel shortages have brought Nigeria to standstill days
Pretoria-based mercenary recruiter is boasting South African hired guns helped Nigerian forces turn the tide against Boko Haram. Eben Barlow tells a London newspaper and
Nigerian forces say they have Boko Haram militants on the run. They’re rescuing hundreds of women and girls abducted and held for months, even years,
With rescuers approaching, Boko Haram terrorists began killing women and girls they were holding captive. An unknown number were stoned to death, at least ten
The Nigerian army says that it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women in the Sambisa Forest, but it can’t confirm if any of those
South Africa’s looking to mend fences with the incoming Nigerian President Muhamadu Buhari. President Jacob Zuma will be attending his inauguration in Abuja in just
Nigeria’s rowing back from the tough demonstration protesting xenophobic violence in South Africa. Foreign Minister Aminu Wali says there are satisfactory indications South Africans have
Nigeria’s withdrawn its High Commissioner to South Africa following deadly attacks on foreigners that left seven people dead. At one point the Abuja government was
Nigerian forces have begun a ground offensive on the Sambisa forest in the northeast of country. It is the last bolt hole for Boko Haram
Jean-Jacques Cornish is a journalist and broadcaster who has been involved in the media all his adult life.
Starting as a reporter on his hometown newspaper, he moved briefly to then Rhodesia before returning to South Africa to become a parliamentary correspondent with the South African Press Association. He was sent to London as Sapa’s London editor and also served as special correspondent to the United Nations. He joined the then Argus group in London as political correspondent.
Returning to South Africa after 12 years abroad, he was assistant editor on the Pretoria News for a decade before becoming editor of the Star and SA Times for five years.
Since 1999 he’s been an independent journalist writing and broadcasting – mainly about Africa – for Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk, Radio France International, PressTV, Radio Live New Zealand, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, the BBC, Agence France Press, Business in Africa, Leadership, India Today, the South African Institute for International Affairs and the Institute for Security Studies.
He has hosted current affairs talk shows on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. He appears as an African affairs pundit on SABC Africa and CNBC Africa.
He lectured in contemporary studies to journalism students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria.
He speaks on African affairs to corporate and other audiences.
He has been officially invited as a journalist to more than 30 countries. He was the winner of the 2007 SADC award for radio journalism.
He’s been a member of the EISA team observing elections in Somaliland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Tunsiai.
In October 2009 he headed a group of 39 African journalists to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Peoples’ Republic of China.
In January 2010 he joined a rescue and paramedical team to earthquake struck Haiti.
He is immediate past president of the Alliance Francaise of Pretoria.
Jean-Jacques is a director of Giant Media. The company was given access to Nelson Mandela in his retirement years until 2009.
He is co-producer of the hour-long documentary Mandela at 90 that was broadcast on BBC in January 2009.
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