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One Fatou Tamba was yesterday arraigned before the special criminal court presided over by Justice Moses Richards for allegedly burying her newly born baby.
The Kanifing Magistrates Court, presided over by the Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbake, recently acquitted and discharged Neeraj Sharmp, the manager of Safeway Supermarket.
State Counsel AM Yusuf has called on the presiding judge, Justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court in Banjul, to convict one Bakary Daffeh for the offense of murder.
The trial of the United Democratic PartyÂ's campaign manager on Tuesday, commenced at the Kanifing Magistrate Court, presided over by Principal Magistrate Joseph Ikpala.
Development partners have voiced their concern about grinding poverty among the majority of Tanzanians despite recent economic gains.
THE 14-year-old girl who caused the death of a 40-year-old man who had attempted to defile her, has been released on Police bond after the intervention of the women lawyers' association, FIDA, and local council officials.
CHIEF magistrate Jessy Byaruhanga on Friday sentenced Esther Nakayiwa to six months in prison for lying that her step-daughter had disappeared from Kiwoko Police Post in Nakaseke.
One Dodou Secka, was on Wednesday November 17, 2009, arraigned before Justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court in Banjul on charges of murder.
The nation's sleaze watchdog, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed in its 2008 annual report to the Senate that it recorded 74 criminal convictions and recovered assets worth over N15 billion from those investigated and prosecuted.
Abia state government has stated that it has not entered into any business deal with an American lady, Mrs. Miranda Nwadieyi, who had alleged that she was short-changed in a contract to supply the state government 1, 500 units of Chevrolet cars valued at N3.3 billion after paying a contact fee of N11.8 million.
Alliance for Democracy chieftain and former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Chief Audu Ogbeh has decried Federal Government's indifference to the incessant cases of kidnapping and ransom payment in the country.
As hearing begins today in the suit filed by the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic Bank PLC, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru and shareholders of the bank, Ibru and shareholders have said that the appointment of advisers by the Central Bank of Nigeria was a further contempt of the court since they are plaintiffs in suit against CBN at Federal High Court, Lagos.
Two suspected members of a three -man robbery gang were on Wednesday captured by the police near Mabushi overhead bridge, after a shootout that resulted in the escape of the third member.
At the Airport Hotel Ikeja, the venue of the birthday lecture in honour of Barrister Bamidele Aturu came an eruption of jubilation on Monday the 26th of October 2009 when the news came that the one-time most powerful politician and power broker in the south-west, Olabode George, had been jailed over N85billion contracts scam in the Nigerian Ports Authority, where he was chairman of the board.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on December 3 re-arraign the former Managing Director of Finbank Mr. Okey Nwosu and three other directors of the bank at a Federal High Court in Lagos.
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday said it was not surprised by the woeful performance of Nigeria on recent Transparency International (TI) most corrupt nation's ranking.
THE Police in Wakiso have destroyed a marijuana plantation belonging to a resident of Kikandwa zone in Kakiri county.
A total of 10 residents of Sembwa village in Nakaseke sub-county have been remanded in connection with a recent incident in which a mob demolished a home, killed several animals and looted sh2m, accusing the owner of being a sorcerer.
ANGRY residents of Nateta village in Nazigo sub-county, Kayunga district, on Tuesday beheaded a man suspected to be a chicken thief.
A total of 22 Karimojong warriors suspected of murder have been arrested in a joint operation by the army and the Police in the last one month.
THE Police in Bushenyi district are holding two men who allegedly stole over sh17m from Indians recently. The district Police commander, Jimmy Oyuku, identified the two suspects as Francis Kasindizi and Arthur Namara.
THE Police in Kasese district have said defilement cases have drastically reduced. An official from the child and family protection unit, Wilson Kathembo, said the decline was due to massive community sensitisation about child rights by civil society organisations.
OVER 150 girls were defiled in Tororo district last month. Statistics at Tororo Central Police Station indicated that 58 cases were reported in September and 103 in October this year.
Former ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) Commander, General Chris Garuba, has decried the increased rate of crime in Nigeria.
Four new state-subsidised houses in a Khayelitsha housing project were attacked by local backyarders on Tuesday night (17/11/2009), a week after they were handed over to beneficiaries from Gugulethu.
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