Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mrs. Farida Waziri has accused America of "creating a safe haven for looted funds."
Anambra state Police Command yesterday said some people had been arrested in connection with the kidnap of Pa Simeon Soludo, the 78-year-old father of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 6, 2010 governorship elections in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, who was released Wednesday night by those who abducted him from his family house about 10 days ago.
The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has reiterated his unrelenting commitment towards ensuring that corruption and mismanagement of public properties does not exist in the government machinery.
President Ellen Johnson has expressed deep "shocked and distressed" over the vicious murder of Keith K. Jubah, Chairman of the Public Procurement Concession Commission (PPCC) who was shot to death Sunday.
One of the men in police custody over cheating in the current Form Four examinations was a government spy, Saturday Nation can reveal. A police investigation shows the man used to work for the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) as a secret informer on examination irregularities.
The 32 elderly people who were arrested by CID personnel from Bansang, Njoben, Kolley Kunda and Foni, and brought to the Banjul Police Station for questioning, were on the 2nd of November 2009 taken back by the same CID personnel to Bansang Police Station for further investigation as confirmed by the police PRO ASP Superintendent Sulayman Secka.
A pastor with Christ Embassy Church, Edo State, and Sen. Francis Okpozo's wife Anna was on Tuesday abducted by unknown gunmen in Benin City, the state capital. She was said to have been kidnapped from her residence,10, Abu Street, a few minutes after she had a prayer session with her family members.
It is not yet over for the Registrar of the National Examination Council, (NECO),Prof Promise Okpala,as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a fresh investigation to ascertain his involvement in an alleged N5billion scam against him.
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.
As attorney-general for almost two decades, Mr Amos Wako has done absolutely nothing to counter the impression that corrupt officials can get away with anything in Kenya.
AFTER Zimbabwe belatedly attained Independence in 1980, the country enjoyed economic recovery and growth for four years. However, thereafter for almost 25 years it has been in almost continuous economic morass, save for a few distressingly brief intermissions when some relatively minimum economic upturns materialised.
"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)
POLICE in Lusaka have picked up four Zambians in connection with the killing an Asian woman and wounding of her husband a week ago.
For the past two weeks, media reports have isolated cases of irregularity in the current Form Four examinations. Curiously, the Kenya National Examinations Council has resorted to denials even when there was evidence that something was going wrong.
A French Appeal Court in Paris yesterday rejected the demand of the Transparency International (TI) organization for leave to open a probe in France into the estates of three African heads of state.
