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The search is on, presumably in earnest, for a replacement for the post of Inspector-General of Police (IG). The position will become vacant on July 24, as the incumbent IG, Mike Okiro, will retire on that day.
THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has welcomed the new anti-corruption measures announced by President Rupiah Banda during the last Press conference.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar was right when he raised serious concerns recently over the growth of the menace of negative youthful exuberance, characteristic of miscreants generally referred to as Area Boys, in an otherwise peaceful state of Sokoto. The Sultan's alarm came while receiving in audience the new Police Commissioner posted to the state.
The arrest of two journalists on Wednesday for alleged extortion is a shameful act that members of the media fraternity must condemn out rightly.
A total of 69 corruption cases were reported during the first half of 2009 according to a report released by the Anti-Corruption Technical Committee.
A PRIMARY school in Kamuli district has been receiving capitation grants for 450 ghost pupils since 2005, according to investigators from the education ministry and the Internal Security Organisation.
FAKE goods worth over sh120b have been seized from traders and importers in the last five years.
The Highest ranking policeman in the country is seriously concerned with the increase in drug and alcohol abuse in the country.
The Liberia National Police have been accused by a local church of being in cahoots with alleged robbers who reportedly robbed the church of over US14, 000.00
A 15-year-old boy who has been missing for three days after kidnappers grabbed him as his father escorted him to school has been found unhurt in Nairobi.
An executive of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric K. Tokpa is suggesting and appealing to the National Legislature, Liberia's lawmaking boy, to consider making 'Torture' a crime in Liberia.
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has vowed to combat fraud and corruption with regards to procurement and tender processes, the Road Accident Fund and issuing drivers' licences.
Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen court has carried out amputation on a man for stealing cow in Gandabe village near Merka town in Lower Shabelle region, witnesses and officials said on Friday.
Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Parry Osayande, on Thursday observed that the Nigeria Police was not effectively equipped to perform optimally under a democratic setting before 1999.
Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO), Promise Okpala, has written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), denying any connection with an alleged N5 billion fraud in the council.
The Nigeria Customs Service has become the beneficiary of a three-day training programme on intellectual property enforcement at Nigeria's borders and ports organised by the United States' Mission in Nigeria in collaboration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The training also focused on health aspects of intellectual property enforcement.
Police on Thursday said Sheik Ja'afar Mahmud Adam, murdered in April 2007 at a mosque in Kano, was killed by four unknown gunmen and not the Kano State Governor, Ibrahim Shekarau, as alleged by some online news organisations.
Seidu Ashara, the prime suspect in the ongoing trial over the murder of the Chairman of Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Samuel Gwamna, was on Thursday given a clean bill of health by the investigating police officer (IPO), Sunday Maichibi.
UNITED States (US) ambassador to Zambia, Donald Booth has said corruption revelations by Zambia's investigative wings, if properly and transparently pursued, have the potential to increase public trust in the Government.
THE infiltration of drug traffickers into Namibia appears to be continuing unabated, with another Angolan national arrested in the Caprivi Region on Friday after he allegedly entered the country with a consignment of cocaine.
A greedy extortionist ran out of luck when he upped his demands, seeking to wring another US$25 000 from a Harare businessman after he had already extorted US$11 000.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) does not have the statutory power to grant Mobitel or any telecommunications outfit waiver for spectrum or operations fees, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday in Abuja.
The police in Abuja yesterday said Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State, the Kano Emirate Council and the Freedom Radio Kano have no case to answer on the murder of a prominent Kano based Islamic cleric, Sheik Ja'afar Mahmud Adam two years a ago.
About N2 billion pensions of retired police officers have been kept in the Ministry of Finance, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mike Okiro has said.The IGP represented by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of 'A Department' (Administration and Finance) Ogbonna Onovo said this yesterday at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria ...
THE Gbaramatu Host Communities' Contractors Forum in Delta State undertook yesterday in Warri to beef up security around facilities of oil companies in the area to protect them from further attacks by criminals.
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