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THE Police in Kayunga district are hunting for a man who reportedly disappeared after beating his 12-year-old son to death after accusing him of misplacing an axe worth sh6,000.
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences (ICPC) have been urged to focus their attention on Taraba State.
Conventionally, corruption refers to the "impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle." It connotes depravity, decay, decomposition; and, of course, "inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means." It is nothing but "a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct."
The police are searching for a Cape Town security guard accused of murdering a colleague late on Sunday night.
Crisis rocking the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a frightening dimension weekend, as unknown gunmen allegedly bombed the residence of its embattled party chairman, Chief Rufus Abadi, at his country home in Otuan, Southern Ijaw local government area.
IN WHAT appears to be an inter-University campus war, two students of the University of Benin and a student of Lagos State University (LASU), have been shot dead at the University of Benin.
Taraba State House of Assembly has reinstated five local government chairmen earlier suspended for allegation of bribery. The local government chairmen were reinstated by a unanimous decision of the Assembly.
There is too much football in the air. This past week has been filled with loads of drama, tension, excitement, expectation and all sorts of emotions. From the CAF Champions League finals involving Heartland FC of Owerri last weekend, to the Super Eagles' final push for South Africa 2010, and the somewhat fairytale run of the Golden Eaglets; it has been a week where football lovers experienced the ...
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has raised alarm over the poor security situation created in the waterways between Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon, following the declaration of the area as a buffer zone.
Former United States (U.S.) House of Representatives member, William Jefferson, was on Friday sentenced to 13 years in prison after his conviction on an 11-count charge of public corruption in a case in which he famously hid US$90,000 in his freezer.
Popular actor and comedian Nkem Owoh was yesterday night released by his abductors. Owoh spent about eight days in the custody of his abductors as a result of series of failed negations for ransom between his relatives and the kidnappers.
Three Nigerian pilgrims are reportedly cooling their heels at Saudi custody. According to a statement by the head of community leaders of pilgrims in Makkah, Alhaji Umar Abubakar Hadeija, the pilgrims were detained for various offences.
Four children who were allegedly kidnapped from their school premises were reportedly found dead the day after they were abducted. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt that the children's corpses were discovered in a bush with their heads cut off.
Before he died in a hail of police bullets, kwaMaphumulo taxi boss Bongani Mkhize made one of the most startling interventions in the annals of South African law.
After a week of searching for a missing eight-year-old boy of Mitchells Plain, police have taken one of the boy's close relatives into custody for questioning.
Blood on the knife confiscated from the man accused of killing Kenilworth jogger Ian Cowburn has been identified as that of the dead man.
Fresh fighting between forces loyal to the Islamist representatives of Jubba regions and Sheik Ahmed Madobe has broken out in Hagar village in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, officials said on Monday.
Eleven people were on Sunday killed and five others seriously injured when Samburu raiders attacked a village near Isiolo Town.
Kenya's major towns are sitting on a fire time bomb. Investigations by the Nation reveal that Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nyeri and other towns are ill-prepared to respond to major fires. The fire departments in these areas are crippled by years of official neglect and riddled with mismanagement and corruption. They also lack equipment and human power.
As dealers in solar products position themselves to exploit opportunities presented by rising energy costs in Kenya, unscrupulous traders are also cashing in on the boom. There are reports that fake solar inverters, bulbs and batteries have flooded the local market stifling growth of local industries and leaving consumers at the losing end.
Once again leaked evidence of a behind-the-scenes Central Bank investigation led to a panic over Centenary Rural Development Bank forcing the regulator to hold a press conference to allay fears.
On October 29 - 30, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank had a workshop discussing the new Joint Budget Support that is being given to the Uganda government. What 'Joint Budget Support' means in simple terms is that a few donors have come together and decided to support Uganda by putting money in the national budget and then it is spent based on the ...
Legislators on Friday resolved to summon NSSF board chairman, Vincent Ssekkono for questioning as Police moved to arrest a top bureaucrat in the Ministry of Local Government over alleged Chogm cash fraud.
Police have been deployed at the Harare's Ximex Mall to thwart illegal activities taking place there.
A 38-year-old man was last week hauled before a Harare magistrate and admitted to committing four armed robberies in three consecutive days.
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