The prosecution in the case of Innocent Irankunda, 24, who was falsely trying to acquire political asylum in Germany, yesterday requested court to hand him a 20 year jail sentence upon conviction.
It was a black weekend in Osogbo, the Osun State capital when an anti-riot policeman shot and killed a septuagenarian simply identified as Jacob Odedeji.
"If we hadn't discovered oil, we would have been better off today. Once we had oil, our agriculture sector collapsed. Oil has made us lazy .We have become corrupted" - Former Minister of State for Finance in Nigeria, Mrs. Nedadi Usman (Credit - Jonathan Power: The perils of African oil, 2004)
COMPLETE mayhem broke out at Outapi yesterday as Police were forced to try and diffuse a confrontation between supporters of Swapo and the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) during a planned RDP rally at the town.
VIOLENCE shook the farm Riksburg in the Karibib district on Saturday morning when a small group of unidentified men assaulted and seriously injured an old lady and her housekeeper before firing several shots at the farmworkers.
Commissions of Inquiry are useful tools for enforcing accountability in public service if their recommendations are acted upon. But in Uganda, as in much of Africa, they are largely used to assuage public outrage at institutionalised abuse and misuse of office.
Since the advent of oil boom in Nigeria, governments have been lax in collecting taxes from citizens, corporate bodies and organisations to fund their programmes.
Adokiye Amiesimaka has claimed that he has documentary evidence to back up his allegation that Nigeria Under-17 captain Fortune Chukwudi is ineligible for the tournament.
PANDEMONIUM broke out in Osogbo, Osun State capital last Saturday evening when a trigger-happy mobile policeman shot dead a 70-year-old man on his way from the wedding of his son.
A 30-year-old driver has being arraigned before an Abuja Magistrate's court for alleged reckless driving. The driver, Kayode Ilugbode, was accused of driving a tipper a dangerous manner at Airport Road, by Gosa junction that led to an accident involving a Honda Accord car with registration number FT 322 EKY. Prosecutor Jeremiah Elijah stated in court that the truck hit the Honda car from behind ...
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sworn that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua neither interferes with the work of the EFCC nor influences its decisions.
A trigger - crazy armed squad officer of Gombe Prisons has been detained by the state police command for allegedly opening fire on one of the youths that celebrated Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan's release from prison custody.
A 34-year-old indigene of Delta State, Mr Peter Oloba has petitioned the inspector-general of police, Ogbonna Onovo over threats to his life by his relative over a contentous family rubber plantation.
Fifty suspected oil bunkerers, including a Lebanese have been arrested by the operatives of Sector 1 Command of the Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named Operation Restore Hope, Warri, Delta State.
A blue cap found at the scene of a crime led to the arrest of two young men who appeared before the Extension Two Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
