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Two-year-old Randoline Fortune was raped until her insides ruptured, causing excessive bleeding and sending her tiny body into shock, the Parow Regional Court has heard.
SECURITY at the Katutura Police station came under scrutiny this weekend after 16 trial-awaiting prisoners escaped from the cells after cutting the burglar bars in front of a window.
Fear gripped Lira municipality officials on Monday morning when they reported for duty and found a goat's head in the office of the town clerk.
Two measures introduced in the past week will make it increasingly difficult for politicians and civil servants to hide any stolen government money.
The Police have arrested a 21-year-old student accused of hacking his uncle to death.
THE Chief of Police, Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga, has urged the Namibian Police to remain impartial and maintain law and order during this week's elections.
Paul Otieno Deya may have stabbed his four-year-old son to death on Monday after his wife Jacqueline Achieng Otieno asked for a divorce, it emerged on Thursday.
A Somali suspected to be a pirate tried to attach a ladder to a ship under attack before an approaching helicopter made him change his mind, a court heard on Thursday.
Police officers are to work with private security companies to ensure the safety of Kisumu town residents.
Traffic police officers receiving bribes have changed tack to escape renewed efforts to fight corruption.
THE hearing of the sh900m theft case against Juliet Katusiime, the wife of the National Forestry Authority boss, has been fixed for December 3.
NAMIBIAN lightweight world boxing champion Paulus 'Hitman' Moses and trainer Nestor Tobias, were robbed of N$12 000 in cash and several other valuables after boarding a taxi at the OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning.
Government is serious about stamping out corruption in the housing delivery sector, and not just mouthing off slogans, says Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale.
General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Alhaji Abdulhahi Dikko has set up a committee to check all forms of bribery and corruption in the service.
Police and the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) have launched a manhunt for a soldier, who went berserk on Monday, and opened fire on his colleagues, killing two of them on the spot in Kigoma Region.
Vice president Goodluck Jonathan has called for international cooperation and support against the trafficking in persons in the country.
An applicant, Ameh Joseph, 18, was yesterday arraigned before an Ejigbo Magistrate's Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling an 11-year old girl. Joseph, however, pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge of having canal knowledge of the girl without her consent.
A human rights activist and social crusader, Mrs. Olushola Akai, has frowned at the rampant cases of sexual abuse against the youths in the present-day society.
For CHINWE OCHU, many Nigerians do not appreciate their country until they travel out and taste the bitter side of other countries. Her trip to South Africa recently exposed her to experiences that made her realise that despite the country's bad image abroad, Nigeria still has something to be proud of, even though she still has Soweto in her mind
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos command has apprehended a 64-yearold mother of seven for ingesting 80 wraps of substances, weighing 1.060 kg, which tested positive to cocaine.
A team of Mobile Policemen under the newly created anti-robbery and kidnap outfit set up by the Edo State Government codenamed "Operation Thunder Storm" was on Tuesday morning demobilised by armed robbers, who killed a police Sergeant and set the patrol vehicle ablaze.
The latest rating by global corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI), which ranked Nigeria 130 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2009 corruption index, has, contrary to positions in official quarters, reaffirmed the belief that corruption, which has been the bane of the country's development, is far from reducing.
Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Hlengiwe Mkhize, is to take a project which focuses on the well-being and protection of children behind bars to the Limpopo province on Friday.
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has directed that Rosalind Sumner, an Australian love scam victim be paid the sum of N514, 212.10 and another $5900 recovered from a Nigerian fraudster.
A non-governmental organisation, Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN), has appealed to the National Assembly to probe the inability of the Minister of Police Affairs, Ibrahim Lame, to account for N3.5 billion meant for strategic crime prevention projects in seven cities in Nigeria.
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