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SA's international standing took a knock after the country slipped a notch down on Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index, released this week.
Minister of State for Health, Dr. Aliyu Idi Hong said this at a networking programme of the Nigerian Representatives of Overseas Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (NIROPHARM) held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday.
THE Kanungu district senior accounts assistant, Leonard Beitomwe, was on Tuesday arrested by the task force investigating the misuse of funds for the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.
DETECTIVES from the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) yesterday interrogated five officials of Kyambogo University over death threats directed at the vice-chancellor, Prof Isaiah Ndiege.
MUKONO Police are hunting for unknown people suspected to have sacrificed a child and dumped the body in Nakawolole brick quarry in Kitete.
A Human Right lawyer Festus Keyamo has called on the Federal Government to investigate the alleged murder of Alhaji Tasiu Umar Mashi in the office of the Katsina State Police Commissioner on November 2, 2009.
The Niger state business office of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has decried the rate at which electrical installations are vandalised in the state.
The Nigerian Police at the Murtala Muhammad Airport, Ikeja Lagos, has identified a syndicate that specialises in the forgery of documents and duty stamps of all kinds within the airport vicinity.
Many are quick to put the blame about security problems on the state of the Police and Policing in Nigeria. Attitude they say is everything. Our attitude to life and security as a people is nothing to write home about.
The Action Congress (AC) has said Nigeria's failing anti-corruption war, as shown by the latest rankings of 180 countries by Transparency International, is a consequence of the lack of electoral integrity in the country.
AN investigation into the mismanagement of the soccer federation funds took another twist yesterday, after the criminal investigation department at Old Kampala Police Station preferred to summon the entire former federation executive led by Denis Obua for questioning.
THE Police in Mubende district are holding a 24-year-old woman for allegedly killing her husband. Regina Nakanjako is suspected to have killed Richard Ssegamwenge following a quarrel over food on Sunday night.
THE Police are holding four suspected robbers, two of them UPDF soldiers, accused of robbing a businessman.
THE Police on Monday impounded 42 jerrycans of the killer waragi in Olilim sub-county in Lira district.
The Nigeria Customs Service has purchased two Bell Helicopters to fight smugglers in the country, Comptroller General of Customs Alhaji Dikko Abdulai said.
The Federal Capital Territory Minister Sen. Adamu Aliero was dumbfounded last Thursday when he came face to face with a deceitful breast cancer beggar in her costume at the ministerial office in Area 11, Garki last Thursday.
Police yesterday paraded a 21-year-old man, Wisdom Onyekwa, who allegedly killed a senior lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Dr. (Mrs.) Phylis Ifeoma Okoli.
THE 14-year-old girl from Bushenyi who stoned to death a 40-year-old man whom she accused of trying to rape her yesterday failed to get released on Police bond because there was nobody to stand surety for her.
A TEENAGER held in connection with Maj. Gen. James Kazini's murder last week is a state witness and under Police protection.
THE Governor Bank of Uganda, Tumusiime Mutebile, has urged commercial banks to guard against fraud and forgeries by instituting effective risk management systems.
A 58-year-old woman, who sued a family friend for raping and sexually molesting her 45 years ago, has lodged a Cape High Court application for his sequestration, after he failed to pay her the amount he offered in settlement.
ID leader Patricia de Lille has vowed to fight to ensure that MPs are as accountable for their travel costs as ministers, to prevent "loopholes" in parliamentary travel policies being abused - despite tighter rules imposed since the Travelgate scandal.
THE Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, has identified the judiciary as key to the successful elimination of economic crimes and corruption.
Piracy off Somalia's coast is a symptom of wider problems ashore, and any strategy to tackle it must also deal with its root causes and strengthen regional capacity, the United Nations envoy to the country warned today.
With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of domestic violence.
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