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About 26 ex-militants at rehabilitation center located at the Social Development Institute (SDI) in Okeyi, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State yesterday held a staff of the institute hostage over what they described as unfair treatment by their host.
At the end of the month-long FIFA Under-17 World Cup soccer championship last week, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the Federal Government was instituting an inquiry into the finances and conduct of officials of the game's Local Organising Committee (LOC).
The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the imposition of sanctions on undemocratic governments in the West African sub-region, saying African leaders must summon the moral authority to caution leaders whose actions continue to undermine the continent's strives for an enduring democratic culture.
THE Namibian Police are on full alert for the elections and won't tolerate anybody breaking the law, regardless of the political party membership card he or she carries.
STATISTICS SA says it is failing to meet needs for statistics in areas including poverty, crime, gender and education.
THERE are 32 days to go before we celebrate Christmas.
Has anyone really been raped? How many and by who? Conflicting reports emanate from everywhere. Will we ever really know what happened? As always, the truth is a scarce commodity in Nigeria.
A Caravan Dodge space bus belonging to Alhaja Rafat, wife of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) General Secretary, Dr. Bolaji Ojo-Oba, has been stolen. The vehicle was snatched at gunpoint at Mushin area of Lagos State in the night of Thursday, November 19, 2009.
Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development yesterday named former Chairman of the Board of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Olabode George, as one of the notable Nigerians who bought Federal Government houses in Lagos without bidding for them.
While the recent conviction of the former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority, Chief Olabode George and five others for corruption by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of an Ikeja High Court still eliciting reactions, many are calling on judges in the country to take up the gauntlet if the fight against graft must succeed.
The Vice President, Prof Gilbert Bukenya and Foreign affairs Minister, Sam Kutesa should be arrested if they fail to refund Chogm cash they allegedly misused, Forum for Democratic Change president has said.
Donors have demanded that all officials implicated in Chogm scandals be disciplined, increasing pressure on the government over an issue seen as critical in the fight against corruption in the country, Daily Monitor can reveal.
Shock gripped residents of Mafumbe village in Wabwoko Sub-county, Kayunga District when unknown tomb raiders exhumed two bodies and walked away with some parts. "Among the vital skeleton parts stolen were skulls and some bones from the upper limbs," said Kayunga District OC CID John Dhabangi. The incident comes almost two years after unknown people raided the district and exhumed 52 bodies from ...
The probe into how Chogm (2007) funds were grossly mismanaged or stolen for that matter is a cause of discomfort to those being implicated.
No region of the world is resistant to the threat of corruption according to the recent Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).
Who else shares the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee's optimism that "Ministers (including Sam Kutesa and Gilbert Bukenya) and government officials who fail to provide accountability for money given to them for Chogm activities will be arrested?" (Ministers who abused Chogm cash face jail: MPs, Daily Monitor, November 21). And who seriously believes that "The CID is already investigating ...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it would probe other financial institutions such as mortgage firms and discount houses.
Debtors owing recently bailed out banks have fourteen days to pay up or risk arrest.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad , yesterday in Lagos, stated that a country in turmoil would not be able to develop .
Another Uganda soldier, another death resulting from stab wounds, and yet another woman at the centre of the allegedly murder which took place in a Kampala bar on Saturday night.
A human rights activist has asked the Government to trace customers of albino organs in order to end witchcraft-associated killings of melanin deficient persons mostly rocking Lake Zone regions.
President Yoweri Museveni wants stringent laws to deal with government officials who embezzle public funds.
THE Government will amend the law so that people suspected of stealing government drugs cannot be released on bail until their cases are disposed of.
POLICE in Mbale have netted a gang of suspected thugs who are believed to be behind a series of robberies around the town.
THE Police and health authorities have rescued two children who were starved by their parents in two separate incidences in Mityana and Rakai districts.
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