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Crime and Corruption - Top News

  • November 26
  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Man Arraigned Over N.5 Million Fraud

    The police recently arraigned a middle-aged man before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly defrauding one Eze Udenyi of N548, 000.Ugochhukwu Dick was accused of conniving with others now at large to defraud the complainant of the said money sometimes this year.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Guards Charged With Negligence

    Four security guards were last Tuesday arraigned before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly abandoning their duty posts and paving the way for thieves to break into a shop belonging to one Ugwu.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Gilmor Staff in Court Over Iron Rod Theft

    Five staff of Gilmor Construction Company recently appeared before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly stealing some iron rods belonging to the company.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Two in Police Net Over Theft

    Two suspected burglars, Useni Muhammed and Sunday Michael are presently cooling off at Dutsen-Alhaji Police Post after they were allegedly caught with materials stolen from a shop that belongs to Sebastian Onkwasbeze.

  • New Vision Uganda: Busia Leaders Warned Against Extortion

    BUSIA Town Council officials have been cautioned against extorting money from the public using the LC3 chairman's name. Michael Mugeni expressed disappointment that some council employees were obtaining money using his name.

  • Leadership Nigeria: Drug Trafficking - NDLEA Nabs 64-Year-Old Mother of Seven, Others

    Operatives of the anti-narcotic Agency have apprehended a sixty-four year old mother of seven at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos for ingesting 80 wraps of substances that tested positive for cocaine weighing 1.060 kg.

  • Namibian Namibia: Police Officer Up On Drunken Driving Charges

    A SENIOR officer in the Windhoek City Police is facing three criminal charges - including a count of drunken driving - after making a first court appearance on Friday following a late-night car accident in the city earlier in the week.

  • New Vision Uganda: Luweero Officer Held Over Forgery

    THE Luweero district records officer who forged signatures to help top district officials get a loan of sh945,000 is being detained at Central Police Station in Kampala.

  • New Vision Uganda: Women Activists Decry Rising Violence

    WOMEN activists have expressed worry over the delay by the Police and courts to dispose of gender-related violence cases.

  • New Vision Uganda: Kyambogo Staff Suspended Over Sh90 Million

    TWO Kyambogo University staff working in the salary section have been suspended over creating ghost workers on the payroll that cost the institution over sh90m.

  • New Vision Uganda: Court to Hear Appeal On Global Fund

    An appeal by Fred Kavuma, a former programme manager at the defunct Uganda Television challenging his conviction and sentence for embezzlement, will be heard at the Court of Appeal today.

  • Monitor Uganda: Judiciary Launches Corruption Inquiry

    A judicial integrity committee investigating cases related to corruption and bribery by judicial officers has started its work in northern Uganda.

  • Monitor Uganda: Time Up for Country's Water Thieves

    National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), has acquired equipment to detect illegal water connections that cost the institution about Shs25 billion water in losses a month, Daily Monitor has learnt.

  • Times of Zambia Zambia: Two NGO Officials Arrested

    POLICE in Chipata have arrested two officials of a non governmental organisation (NGO) called Harvest Help for swindling peasant farmers more than K600 million.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Senator Faces Arrest

    A HARARE magistrate has issued a warrant of arrest against Murehwa Senator Tendai Makunde after he failed to appear in court yesterday for trial on charges of defying a court order compelling him to pay maintenance for the upkeep of his child.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: U.S.$1,4 Million Mbanje Seized

    POLICE have arrested seven suspected members of a drug trafficking syndicate, including two Mozambicans, and recovered 1 400kg of mbanje worth about US$1,4 million.

  • November 25
  • Vanguard Nigeria: Country Signs U.S.$1 Billion EU Pact

    Nigeria signed a 677 million euro ($1bn) pact with the European Union on Thursday aimed at combating corruption and promoting peace in its troubled, oil-producing Niger Delta region.

  • HRW Equatorial Guinea: Human Rights Concerns Taint Election [press release]

    Conditions in Equatorial Guinea cast serious doubt about the credibility of the forthcoming presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today.

  • This Day Benin: Suspected Pirates Attack Oil Tanker

    Pirates suspected to come from Nigeria have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says.

  • Mmegi Zambia: Lawyers Made a Killing From Chiluba Corruption Case

    New evidence has emerged showing that both local and foreign lawyers probably did not want the Chiluba corruption case to die because they were making a killing.

  • New Vision Uganda: 100 Ghost Health Centres Uncovered

    OVER 100 Government health centres listed by the Ministry of Health as recipients of drugs and funding are non-existent, according to investigations by the National Medical Stores (NMS).

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Britist Solicitor Funneled Bribes to Country, Court Told

    A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday.

  • IRIN Burundi: Activists Decry Rights Abuses, Culture of Impunity

    One of the guards of a provincial governor in Burundi seriously beat up a man in early November in a dispute over land and property. The man died after a few days in hospital. The case received wide media coverage in Burundi, with human rights organizations condemning the incident and calling for legal action to be taken against the perpetrator.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: El-Rufai Dares Tyranny, Set to Return Home [document]

    Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of FCT, dares tyranny for he has vowed to return home as soon as possible. Rufai who left the shore of the country last year for academic purposes declared in a letter that he will be home in December not minding the threat of an eight-count charge of criminal conspiracy and abuse of office while he was the FCT minister set against him by the Economic and ...

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: The Killing of Abubakar Umar

    Malam Abubakar Umar, the special adviser to the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) was gruesomely killed by persons that the police are yet to identify and apprehend.

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