In what has been described as a landmark development regarding judicial cooperation between France and Rwanda, two senior judges from the Paris Court of Higher Instance have arrived in the country to investigate Genocide fugitives on French soil.
Against the backdrop of media reports on the health of President Umaru Musa Yar'dua who is in Saudi Arabia for medical check-up, the Senate yesterday said that it did not have evidence that Yar'Adua could not perform his constitutional responsibilities of president.
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.
The Federal Government is proposing to buy four more aircraft for the presidential fleet, according to the 2010 Appropriation Bill sent to the National Assembly yesterday by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
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.
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.
Maj. Gen. James Bunanukye Kazini is perhaps the only General of the UPDF who has fought in every single major war--internal and external--since President Museveni captured power in 1986. He fought against the West Nile-based Uganda National Rescue Front II of Ali Bamuze, the Lord's Resistance Army of Joseph Kony, the Allied Democratic Forces in his Kasese home area, and above all, three battles ...
Having mulled over all his options, former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has finally started preparations for his imminent return to Nigeria in order to clear his name from all allegations in court.
A NUMBER of individuals have pledged to support the 14-year-old girl from Bushenyi, who was recently arrested for allegedly killing her would-be rapist.
THE corruption trial of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi has been delayed until next Tuesday to allow State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele 's advocate to get further instructions.
Several ruling party lawmakers yesterday moved to defy odds and throw their weight behind the opposition's crusade against the government's land law reform proposals as contained in the Land (Amendment) Bill 2008.
A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month.
MDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett has described his terrorism trial, which began two weeks ago, an 'absolute farce' and 'a joke.' The MDC official, who has not been sworn into government as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture because Robert Mugabe is refusing to swear him in, said he is frustrated with the slow pace the trial is taking.
More than 300 former combatants in Darfur, including women and disabled persons, have participated in a three-day discharge programme organized by the Government of Sudan with support from the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur.
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.
