Following an hour of heated debate at the joint Chamber of the National Legislature, the House of Representatives Thursday passed into law an act seeking to establish The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC). But Maryland County Representative Boffa Chambers has filed a motion of reconciliation.

THE Senate, yesterday, turned down the National Health Bill facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Health with funds from the N300 million unspent 2007 budget of the Ministry.

Less than 48 hours to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag off of the governorship campaign of Chief Timipre Sylva in the ordered re-run election in Bayelsa State, the state secretariat was in the early hours of yesterday attacked with explosives suspected to be dynamites.

Calls for the trial of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over alleged corrupt practices swelled across the nation yesterday as different rallies were organised in Abuja and Kaduna by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Coalition of Northern Nigeria Civil Society Organisations, calling on President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to prosecute Obasanjo and his daughter, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello.

A section of senior church leaders from central Kenya wants the government to sit down for talks with Mungiki, a banned ultra-traditionalist tribal sect dreaded for bizarre murders, extortion and a campaign to impose circumcision and a strict dress code on women.

TRAFFIC Police officers extort money from motorists and conceal it in their berets, armpits and private parts, it emerged yesterday.

A 14-year-old girl tearfully narrated in a Livingstone magistrates court how she was defiled in an open pre-school building.

The Government yesterday said it will sue the Norwegian engineering consulting firm, Norconsult, following its abrupt decision to pull out of Tanzania following corruption allegations.

ANTICORRUPTION watchdog Transparency International said yesterday legislation to disband the Scorpions was a blow to the African National Congress's (ANC's) integrity.

The fight against graft in the Uganda Police Force gained momentum on Wednesday when operatives of the Police Professional Standards Unit (PPSU) arrested 17 traffic officers on the spot for allegedly soliciting bribes from errant drivers.

SOUTH Africans feel less secure than they did five years ago, says a survey of crime victims by the Institute for Security Studies.

SUSPECTS from Butiiti Prison in Mwenge county, Kyenjojo district, walk 38kms to the court for trial.

NAAVA Nabagesera, the former presidential aide on legal affairs, was yesterday convicted and fined for obtaining money by false pretence.

The Office of the Prosecutor General is to carry out DNA test to ascertain whether a city Pastor, Luis Empo Mbayi, fathered the baby of a 16-year old girl.

In January of this year the popular brothel known as "Soldier Bar," at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, was raided, followed by the arrest of more than 160 mostly teenage prostitutes. Although the women taken into custody were registered into rehabilitation programs, today they are now back on the streets. 60 of the 160 confessed to being younger than 16; evidence of the need to end an ...

THE World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) has warned industry players in the construction industry to shun corruption, which has emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to the country's economic turnaround.

Barely 48 hours to the inauguration of former Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva's campaign for governorship re-run, and President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's expected first visit to the state, explosion rocked Yenagoa, the state capital, yesterday.

A member of Imo State House of Assembly representing Obowo State Constituency, Honourable Celestine Ogobiwu, was on Wednesday evening kidnapped in Owerri, while returning from a gym, close sources said.

The Njala university Bo campus student who allegedly stabbed a fellow student Chernoh Tonkara to death has made her first appearance before hon justice Naomi Tunis for the offense of murder contrary to law at the Bo high court.

Police Wednesday arrested Mohamed Sesay an alleged rapist at Clarkes quarter, Ngaiya town, Nimikoro chiefdom, Kono district.

Police in Kambia have arrested 5 Guinean trucks, at Bamoi Lumor close to the Guinean border, fully loaded with foodstuffs apparently meant for sale in neighbouring Guinea where an end of government subsidy triggered economic woes.

A wheelbarrow pusher Momoh Sesay has been arrested with one hundred and twenty two (122) short guns and AK 47 cartridges along Dambala Road in Bo.

At least two people were killed in Kuria East District during a fight involving two clans over cattle rustling incidents.

Parliament concluded debating a Bill seeking to fight money laundering, even as some dismissed the proposed law as a document backed by foreign powers.

Despite government's calls for South Africans to help in building safer and more secure communities by mobilising against crime, a new survey has revealed that citizens need to do more to protect themselves.