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Crime and Corruption - Top News

  • November 25
  • New Vision Uganda: New Law Gives Money Launderers 15 Years in Jail

    MONEY launderers will face up to 15 years in jail or pay a maximum fine of sh2b if the Anti-Money Laundering Bill is passed into law.

  • New Vision Uganda: 20 Held Over Motorcycle Theft

    OVER 20 men suspected of stealing motorcycles in the central region have been rounded up by security.

  • This Day Nigeria: In Katsina, Tasiu's Death Sparks Off Controversy [analysis]

    Death, from all intents and purposes, is meant to be final for the human soul. But for late Tasiu Umar Mashi, aka Tasi Elder, the controversial Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Mashi Local Government area of Katsina state, the controversy generated by his death in the office of Katsina State Commissioner of Police Danazumi Doma recently, is proving the above assumption wrong. As far as ...

  • This Day Nigeria: Reformed Militants - A Return to The Old Ways

    The previous warning by Chief Albert Horsefall that militants even after reformations still exhibit high level of restiveness that makes them susceptible to violent reaction, most times, without justification may have been taken with a pinch of the salt.

  • Business Day South Africa: Pressure Growing for Balfour to Explain Jailhouse Rot

    Pressure is mounting for former correctional services minister Ngconde Balfour -- now SA's high commissioner to Botswana -- to be called to account for the "deep rot" in the department.

  • New Vision Uganda: Tomb Raiders Cause Fear in Kayunga

    RESIDENTS of Mafumbe village in Kitimbwa sub-county in Kayunga district are living in shock and fear after unknown people revived exhuming dead bodies from graveyards in the area.

  • Namibian Namibia: Senior City Police Officer Arrested

    THE Deputy Chief of the City Police, Nathaniel Nendongo, was arrested after a car accident in Windhoek at around 23h00 on Wednesday.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Fugitive Woman Nabbed

    POLICE have arrested the 67-year-old Epworth woman who was on the run after she allegedly conducted a botched backyard abortion that resulted in the death of a city woman before her two daughters and granddaughter illegally buried the body in a shallow grave.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Cop Fatally Stabbed

    A police inspector was fatally stabbed on Sunday morning by three suspected criminals while on his way home from the city centre in Mutare.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Girl (16) Raped

    A 16-year-old girl was last Friday raped by a man who had offered her shelter while it was raining in Glen View 7, Harare.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: Investment, Securities Tribunal to Checkmate Fraud - Shekarau

    The Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) has adjudicated on 300 cases with a monetary value of N100billion, in the last 6 years.

  • New Times Rwanda: Businessman Arrested in Gasabo Tender Scam

    Following the recent arrest of four officials of Gasabo district for allegedly awarding a tender illegally, businessman Eugene Bavukiyehe has been arrested in relation to the same case.

  • Monitor Uganda: NGO Suspended Over Fraud

    Lira Resident District Commissioner Joan Pacotoo has suspended the operations of the Alliance for Christians in Development (ACID) Trust, an NGO, over allegations of fleecing the public and forgery.

  • Monitor Uganda: Seven Students Held for Forging Fees Bank Slips

    Police in Kumi are holding seven students of Teso Integrated Secondary School and Fr. John Memorial College over allegedly forging school fees banking slips.

  • Monitor Uganda: 10 People Arrested Over Motorcycle Theft

    Police have arrested 20 suspected boda boda thieves and recovered 20 stolen motorcycles. The suspects are currently detained at Kajjansi Police Station as investigations continue.

  • Monitor Uganda: Tegulle; If CID Was Dead, Prisons Would Be Empty [opinion]

    I am convinced that whereas it is not their intention, some media experts can seriously and very effectively disrupt police investigations and the latest example is the unsolved murder of former army commander, Maj. Gen. James Kazini. (See Gawaya Tegulle's Police equipped to crush riots, not investigate in Saturday Monitor of 21 November.)

  • November 24
  • IPS Uganda: Leaders' Integrity Questioned

    Seated at a u-shaped table is an assembly of middle-aged men and women clad in business suits, faces stern and expressionless. Refreshments - bottled water, sodas and giant flasks of tea - clutter the long table, competing for space with piles of documents.

  • New Vision Uganda: A New War Rages in the North

    Twenty-one-year old widow, Santa Auma remembers the day four men, armed with spears and knives stormed her hut at about 3:35am on March 20, 2008, and robbed her. Then they took turns raping her and her 20-year-old niece. Auma decided to fight back. She and her niece went to the hospital and then to the Police. One of the attackers was arrested and is in jail awaiting trial.

  • Nation Nigeria: Country Set to Begin Trial of Top Con Man

    A Nigerian court will this week begin the trial of a 23 year-old Internet fraudster, Okoro Osagie Victor, who swindled an estimated $96,607 (Sh7.1 million) mostly from young American and German ladies, reports said.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Ex-Militants Hold Amnesty Official Hostage

    About 26 ex-militants at rehabilitation center located at the Social Development Institute (SDI) in Okeyi, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State yesterday held a staff of the institute hostage over what they described as unfair treatment by their host.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Probing U-17 Tournament [editorial]

    At the end of the month-long FIFA Under-17 World Cup soccer championship last week, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the Federal Government was instituting an inquiry into the finances and conduct of officials of the game's Local Organising Committee (LOC).

  • This Day Africa: House Endorses Sanctions Against Despots

    The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the imposition of sanctions on undemocratic governments in the West African sub-region, saying African leaders must summon the moral authority to caution leaders whose actions continue to undermine the continent's strives for an enduring democratic culture.

  • Namibian Namibia: NamPol Ready to Keep Eye On Voters

    THE Namibian Police are on full alert for the elections and won't tolerate anybody breaking the law, regardless of the political party membership card he or she carries.

  • Business Day South Africa: Stats SA Warns of Statistics Shortfall On Crime, Poverty

    STATISTICS SA says it is failing to meet needs for statistics in areas including poverty, crime, gender and education.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Fight Crime This Festive Season [editorial]

    THERE are 32 days to go before we celebrate Christmas.

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