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One of the men in police custody over cheating in the current Form Four examinations was a government spy, Saturday Nation can reveal. A police investigation shows the man used to work for the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) as a secret informer on examination irregularities.
For the past two weeks, media reports have isolated cases of irregularity in the current Form Four examinations. Curiously, the Kenya National Examinations Council has resorted to denials even when there was evidence that something was going wrong.
The son of Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe is to answer in court next year to charges that he defrauded people and businesses of more than R500 000 over two years.
THE total expenditure of the Task Force on Corruption was higher than the recoveries made during the period of its operations, Home Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has said.
Anambra state Police Command yesterday said some people had been arrested in connection with the kidnap of Pa Simeon Soludo, the 78-year-old father of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 6, 2010 governorship elections in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, who was released Wednesday night by those who abducted him from his family house about 10 days ago.
Enock Ssebanga, 21, on Wednesday lost the battle to leukaemia. The picture of his scraggy body published by this newspaper on August 7, 2000 shocked the world about the boundless nastiness of some parents. Then 12, Ssebanga was accused by the step-mother, Regina Nabakoza of being a thief. His father, Charles Kayongo, capitulated to the devilish plot to incarcerate the teenager in an abandoned ...
The commission of inquiry set up by the Sokoto State government to probe the immediate past government of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has recommended that the former governor and some of his officials refund the sum of N2.9b to the state. "Let's meet in court," the indicted persons replied. But what are the people saying?
THE way procurement rules were flouted and taxpayers' money was squandered during CHOGM is mind-boggling, and those identified should be brought to book. But lessons should be learned from this mess.
The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has reiterated his unrelenting commitment towards ensuring that corruption and mismanagement of public properties does not exist in the government machinery.
Having an independent regulator, improving the procurement process and good political will can help stem corruption in the water and sanitation sector, the Ministry of Water and Environment has suggested.
An elderly woman was buried alive in a landslide at Gikingo village in Imenti South District following heavy rains. Mrs Karuberina Karuki, 70, was cutting grass for her goats when the tragedy occurred.
A Sh147 million fraud case involving Uchumi supermarkets has been pushed to next year to await the Court of Appeal to endorse a letter said to have been signed by the Attorney General asking that the case be stopped.
As attorney-general for almost two decades, Mr Amos Wako has done absolutely nothing to counter the impression that corrupt officials can get away with anything in Kenya.
AFTER Zimbabwe belatedly attained Independence in 1980, the country enjoyed economic recovery and growth for four years. However, thereafter for almost 25 years it has been in almost continuous economic morass, save for a few distressingly brief intermissions when some relatively minimum economic upturns materialised.
The 32 elderly people who were arrested by CID personnel from Bansang, Njoben, Kolley Kunda and Foni, and brought to the Banjul Police Station for questioning, were on the 2nd of November 2009 taken back by the same CID personnel to Bansang Police Station for further investigation as confirmed by the police PRO ASP Superintendent Sulayman Secka.
One Mustapha Drammeh was recently ordered by the Kanifing Magistrates Court, presided over by Magistrate B O Jobe, to return some motor vehicles he was said to have obtained by false pretense.
"If we hadn't discovered oil, we would have been better off today. Once we had oil, our agriculture sector collapsed. Oil has made us lazy .We have become corrupted" - Former Minister of State for Finance in Nigeria, Mrs. Nedadi Usman (Credit - Jonathan Power: The perils of African oil, 2004)
A FORMER Deputy Minister of Presidential Affairs and ex-Member of Parliament (MP) for Wenchi, Alhaji Moctar Bamba, has challenged anyone who accuses him of any form of financial misappropriation during his term as a Deputy Minister in the former administration, to take him to court.
The Paramount Chief of the Bawku Traditional Area, Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II, has expressed regret over the recent skirmishes that occurred at Bawku, which led to the death of three people and injury to several others.
Three people have been shot dead, and seven injured, whilst 29 have been arrested following the sporadic shooting that occurred at Bawku yesterday.
Embattled gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, yesterday said the kidnap of his octogenarian father has brought home the reality of how insecure life and property have become in the state.
Director-general of the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP), Eng. Emeka Ezeh, has disclosed that the bureau has expended N68 million on the training of its staff and institutional strengthening, even as he blamed the failure of projects in the country on the unpatriotic attitude of some civil servants.
It is not yet over for the Registrar of the National Examination Council, (NECO),Prof Promise Okpala,as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a fresh investigation to ascertain his involvement in an alleged N5billion scam against him.
About two persons were reported to have been killed yesterday by the police in Ibi Local Government Area of Taraba State, while about 20 others were also said to be receiving treatment having sustained injuries in a fracas.
POLICE in Lusaka have picked up four Zambians in connection with the killing an Asian woman and wounding of her husband a week ago.
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