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Further investigations into the leaked Mpumalanga matric examination papers have led to the arrest of an official from the Mpumalanga Department of Education and eight other people.
A court in Switzerland had yesterday, ordered the seizure of $350m, roughly about N53.2bn, worth of assets from the son of Nigeria's former military ruler, late General Sani Abacha.
"Namibia Highly Corrupt" screamed a newspaper headline in one of the local dailies this week, prompting many Namibians to wonder whether this is the Namibia they know or another country.
When bankers steal it is sad. When bankers steal, the whole concept of banking becomes meaningless. The 2008 Annual Report of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has revealed that 313 bank staff of various categories stole a staggering N53 billion in the year 2008.
Cases of extra-judicial killings have of late markedly increased all over Uganda, raising serious questions about the security of peace loving citizens. This week alone, police has rounded up a number of gangsters including the notorious katayimbwa (iron bar) hit men who are terrorizing city dwellers.
WHEN in doubt, form a committee. That may seem an unduly cynical response to the Cabinet's decision to set up an interministerial committee to investigate and recommend "extraordinary steps" to deal with corruption. After all, it is an advance on the past administration's tendency to ignore mounting evidence of corruption in the hope that it would somehow disappear.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former student of the Igbinedion University, Edo State, Okoro Osagie Victor, who is an ardent member of the Christ Embassy Church for allegedly defrauding foreigners to the tune of $96, 607 through the internet.
Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have warned that some fraudsters are trying to extort money from unsuspecting coaches and agents on the pretext they can get them the job of coaching Nigeria at next year's World Cup.
REGIONAL Manager of Oceanic Bank and the proprietor of a hospitality industry, Leisure Homes, have been kidnapped in Asaba, Delta State.
The Joint Task Force (JTF) has been called upon to invade the Mechanic Village , close to the military barracks in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, where suspected illegal arms trade is flourishing.
When Father Wolfgang Thamm SJ went to Darwendale on November 15 to fetch a sick parishioner admitted at a clinic, he thought it was business as usual.
A businessman accused of defrauding a medical doctor and a pilot of Sh7 million alleging he would invest the money on their behalf was charged on Monday.
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.
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