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Police have quizzed six officials including the secretary to the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) over the killing of their colleague, Assistant Director Abubakar Umar Abba last Wednesday.
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday launched a joint police/ military task force to enforce security in the state. Oshiomhole at the launch urged residents of the state including travellers through the state to subject themselves to thorough search by the patrol team at their check points. He said it was regrettable that people would be kidnapped in faraway Northern States and taken to ...
The Council for the Regulations of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Friday arraigned two engineers who were found wanting in the profession. The Disciplinary Panel was chaired by COREN's President Engineer Habu Gumel and the panel sat at COREN's Gwarimpa head office in Abuja.
Ten commercial motorcyclists popularly called okada were recently convicted by an Abuja Grade 1 Area Court for jointly causing obstruction, grievous hurt, mischief and inciting disturbances.
The Central Bank Governor, Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, said on Monday that the bank had traced about 60 shops in Dubai belonging to one of the sacked bank chief executive officers.
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, yesterday lost his bid to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from amending the corruption charges brought against him before a Federal High Court in Lagos.
A HARARE man was arrested on allegations of raping his 20-year-old housemaid as she slept last week.
Somali pirates have released a Spanish Fishing Vessel and its 36 crew, which was seized more than six weeks ago and at the same time, captured a Virgin Islands owned Chemical Tanker with 28 North Korean crew.
THREE more Angolans have been arrested at the Ndola International Airport for trafficking in 249 pellets of pure grade cocaine weighing over 2.87 kilograms, bringing the number of nationals from that country who have been arrested in the last 21 days for the same offence to five.
A fight over a stolen television set in a Nairobi slum escalated into a full-scale confrontation on Monday night, which left about 50 families homeless after their houses were razed to the ground.
A Harare magistrate yesterday threw out the application for refusal of remand by MDC-T transport manager, Pascal Gwezere, who is facing allegations of stealing 20 AK-47 rifles and a shotgun from Pomona Army Barracks.
Yesterday's shooting incident at Avenor, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, leading to the death of one person perceived to be a landguard, has raised the debate as to whether Ghana is gradually becoming a lawless state. It has now become common to see individuals or group of people openly brandishing guns, and firing them under the least provocation.
A proposal by players in the insurance industry to share information in a bid to curb rising fraud is welcome and long overdue.
A senior government official Tuesday snubbed a parliamentary committee inquiry into the loss of Sh7.6 billion worth of oil products through Triton Petroleum Limited.
A municipal police officer who allegedly killed a vendor at Chishawasha Grounds in Mbare last week on Monday has appeared in court facing murder charges.
In real war, it would be referred to as a mopping up operation - as security forces appear to be winning their intermittent battles against illegal immigrants in Borolong.
Transparency International yesterday ranked Nigeria 130th out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2009 corruption perception index.
Saudi Arabian police have arrested a Lagos state pilgrim currently in Mecca for the yearly Muslim hajj for allegedly spending fake $22, 000 (N3.3million) .
Less than 48 hours after the State Security Service (SSS) smashed a kidnap syndicate in Benin, a United States of America based Nigerian medical doctor, Kenneth Oyarebu, has been abducted.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has called on the Presiding Justice of Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, to remove Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour from the panel that would hear the appeal motion filed by the embattled Peoples Democratic Peoples Party (PDP) stalwart and former chairman, Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Bode George.
Two people charged with stealing guns and ammunition from two policemen assigned to the home of President Kibaki's son were on Tuesday discharged. Mr Leposo Elilian, 30, and Ms Rahab Wahu, 24, walked to freedom after an application by Prosecutor Joseph Musyoka.
Weapons handed over to Kenyan authorities when 17 suspected Somali pirates were brought into the country were identified in court on Tuesday.
A drugs agency is pushing for a law that allows rapid tests on students in schools to fight alcohol abuse.
A recent survey carried out in ten regions of Cameroon shows that rape cases are on the rise. According to IPS, 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women interviewed reported having been raped.
After maintaining a relatively low profile since the end of the monsoon season two months ago, Somali pirates literally shot their way back into the headlines with a brazen daylight attack on a crude oil tanker that was their longest range strike ever.
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