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A husband and wife are recuperating from wounds and fractures at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital after being assaulted by gangsters who broke into their house at Chadibe Village near Francistown.
Kenya's fragile manufacturing sector is set to get a boost in the marketplace next month as the government tightens its grip on the production and sale of fake goods with the establishment of a new agency.
The criminal trial involving one Mariama Sarr, who is standing trial on murder charges is finally about to come to an end, as Justice Moses Richards has informed both the defence and state counsel that the court will notify them of the day of judgment.
The Deputy Director of Public Prosecution, DDPP Mikailu Abdulahi on Wednesday, told the Special Criminal Court that the state intends to close the prosecutionÂ's case in the matter involving one Morris F. Kallon, who is standing trial for rape.
The criminal trial of one Lamin Faye resumed last Friday before Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul.
The criminal trial of one Alasan Bah resumed last Thursday, November 19, 2009 before Justice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul.
A two-day seminar organised by the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) in collaboration with the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA), on the Roles of the Insurance Industry in Combating Money Laundering and other Financial Crimes is underway at the Jerma Beach hotel
Another UPDF soldier, another death resulting from stab wounds, and yet another woman at the centre of the allegedly murder which took place in a city bar on Saturday night.
The Executive Director of Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), Issah Ali, has said that if government is committed to fighting hard drugs in the country then it must vigorously tackle the tobacco threat since it is the "gateway" to the use of hard drugs.
Six suspected armed robbers were shot dead in gun exchange with police in Dodoma yesterday.
If anyone thinks the purging of two top officials from the Sirleaf administration in the aftermath of the notorious LPRC-Zakhem contract did effectively put the matter to rest, it must be a mistake. Several questions still linger: is former LPRC director Harry Greaves, who was in the center of the controversy and also held culpable in the bribery saga by the Ministry of Justice granted amnesty?
The embattled Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State, Chief Rufus Abadi, yesterday wrote to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbona Onovo, over rising threats on his life by persons simply identified as "Bravemen" over his alleged role in the protracted crisis within the party in the state.
The Unity Forum has called on the National Assembly to make laws that would prescribe the severest penalties for kidnappers and their accomplices.
The Police in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested one Jafaru Ahmadu Derma for posing as a judge of the Appeal Court, even as Austin Nwaokoro and Ikechukwu Omaya were also arrested for posing as officials of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The federal government has expressed interest towards solidifying its ties with the government of the Republic of Serbia to work closely with Nigeria on areas of electoral reform and the war against corruption.
Dare devil robbers yesterday shot dead three police men, in a bank robbery at Ibillo, Akoko Edo Local Government Council of the State.
Customs operatives in the Eastern Marine Command of the Service at Ibaka, Oron Water axis in Cross River State, have cracked down on smugglers attempting to smuggle two boats fully loaded with prohibited secondhand hand clothes worth over N300, 000.000 into the country.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Y. Lame, has denied the allegation of financial impropriety against his office by the Committee of the House of Representatives on Police Affairs.
Three Policemen yesterday met their untimely death when they were shot by armed robbers in a bank robbery at Ibillo, Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo state.
Abia State government has denied reports by some national dailies that the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC are after the wife of the State governor and some top government officials over their alleged involvement in a financial scam to the tune of N3.3billion.
The managing editor of Weekend Mail, an Abuja-based newspaper; Maximus Uba, has raised alarm over a threat to his life by the governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim.
Still basking in the euphoria of its victory over the former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Bode George, in court, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may just be on its way to prosecuting another set of highly- placed Nigerians, and probably consolidate on its gains in the fight against corruption in the country.
The chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) and Second Republic governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, has lamented that the poor people of the nation are not likely to see the promised land soon because the country is virtually being run by thieves.
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has openly challenged the government of President Umaru Yar'Adua to confiscate any property attributed to him but not reflected in his forms at the Code of Conduct Bureau, saying he was ready to forfeit them
Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) have stepped up their probe of how funds allocated for the just concluded FIFA U-17 World Cup was spent by the Local Organising Committee (LOC) by questioning its Chief Executive Officer, Mainasara Illo.
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