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A HARARE magistrate has issued a warrant of arrest against Murehwa Senator Tendai Makunde after he failed to appear in court yesterday for trial on charges of defying a court order compelling him to pay maintenance for the upkeep of his child.
POLICE have arrested seven suspected members of a drug trafficking syndicate, including two Mozambicans, and recovered 1 400kg of mbanje worth about US$1,4 million.
Nigeria signed a 677 million euro ($1bn) pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region.
Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.
Pirates suspected to come from Nigeria have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says.
New evidence has emerged showing that both local and foreign lawyers probably did not want the Chiluba corruption case to die because they were making a killing.
OVER 100 Government health centres listed by the Ministry of Health as recipients of drugs and funding are non-existent, according to investigations by the National Medical Stores (NMS).
A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday.
One of the guards of a provincial governor in Burundi seriously beat up a man in early November in a dispute over land and property. The man died after a few days in hospital. The case received wide media coverage in Burundi, with human rights organizations condemning the incident and calling for legal action to be taken against the perpetrator.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of FCT, dares tyranny for he has vowed to return home as soon as possible. Rufai who left the shore of the country last year for academic purposes declared in a letter that he will be home in December not minding the threat of an eight-count charge of criminal conspiracy and abuse of office while he was the FCT minister set against him by the Economic and ...
Malam Abubakar Umar, the special adviser to the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) was gruesomely killed by persons that the police are yet to identify and apprehend.
Internal Security minister George Saitoti is on Thursday afternoon expected to present a report in Parliament regarding a series of cash-in-transit robberies in the past year.
Can a mentally ill person have the intention to kill and be held responsible for his actions? A High Court judge wants the prosecution to explain how a man charged with murder 12 years ago and whose medical reports indicate he is insane should be held accountable for his actions.
UK police on Tuesday arrested a son of embattled London-based Kenyan preacher Gilbert Deya on suspicion of murder. Paul Deya, 31, was arrested after his three-year-old son, Wilson, was found stabbed to death on Monday.
An officer was shot dead by armed carjackers at a police roadblock in Ngong area in the outskirts of Nairobi. Another policeman and two civilians were also injured during the Monday night incident near the Maasai Girls School.
Oil marketers are raising alarm over increased threats to vessels delivering crude oil to the Kenyan coast, due to piracy.
Following the death of his child at Oni Memorial Children Hospital, Ring Road Ibadan, a policeman allegedly suffocated two other children to death and left three others on danger list.
An Abuja High Court yesterday freed the National Coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation (PEF), Chief Kenny Martins and two others of charges of N7.740 billion fraud brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
A Lagos High Court yesterday sentenced a former Director in the Oyo State Civil Service Mrs. Helen Banke Laoye to 20 years imprisonment on a two count charge of fraud levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Operations Manager of a first generation bank in Minna Mr Gokis Kizito was yesterday arrested over N2.7 million alleged to have been fraudulently withdrawn from the bank.
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Yusuf Mamman and three others were arraigned before the FCT High Court, Lugbe in Abuja on Monday for allegedly misappropriating N300m belonging to Aso Radio and Television.
The Abia State Government has adopted measures to contain the rate of crimes in Aba and its environs, in a bid to restore Aba to its former glory.
A Member of Parliament has been expelled from a university over examination malpractice.
She ran to the Police seeking justice against the monster who had defiled her but her flight only led her in the hands of another defiler.
North West Premier Maureen Modiselle has warned heads of department that she will not tolerate corruption especially by senior officials in government.
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