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.
The trial for former Liberian president Charles Taylor took an early adjournment today when immediately after the mid-morning break, one of the judges reportedly fell ill. Prior to the court's adjournment, the accused former Liberian president denied allegations that he sent his rebel fighters to attack neighbouring Guinea, saying that he gave approval to "hot pursuit missions" which entered into ...
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.
A Lusaka Magistrates' court today freed a newspaper news editor who stood charged for circulating photographs of a woman in labour during Zambia's strike earlier this year.
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.
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.
A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month.
The International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo will Thursday make an "announcement" on the situation regarding Kenya's post election violence.
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.
Nigeria's former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has again called for the abolition of "federal character", describing it as no longer fashionable in the country's socio-economic and political system.
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.
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 ...
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.
The Gacaca court of Ngoma recently sentenced in absentia a former vice Rector of the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to life imprisonment with special provisions for his role in the 1994 Genocide at the university, in which over 400 students and staff died.
A Harare lawyer has been dragged to court for representing a client in three cases before he was issued with a practising licence.
