The Deputy Head of Mission at the European Union in Liberia, Anders Arvidsson has cautioned Liberians, especially the young people to maintain the peace as the country approaches the 2023’s Presidential and Legislative Elections. The European Union Deputy Head of Mission indicated that it is about time that the young people of Liberia get involved […]
Tag: Legal and Judicial Affairs
The Setsoto Local Municipality has obtained an interim order preventing any new shacks from being erected Community members who led a mass protest by residents of Ficksburg in the Free State are among the 11 people who appeared in court on charges of public violence this week. They are due back at the Ficksburg Magistrates […]
The Government of Liberia is making efforts through diplomatic means to address the case involving two officials of the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) who were convicted recently in South Korea. “From the side of the Liberian Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we have met some Korean officials including their Ambassador to see if […]
The 21st Extra-Ordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State has appointed Justice Omar Othman Makungu from Tanzania as a Judge of the EACJ Appellate Division. The appointment was made during a meeting held in Bujumbura, Burundi on Wednesday and attended by Vice President, Dr Philip Mpango who represented President Samia Suluhu […]
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) councillor for Masvingo ward 7, Richard Musekiwa has been acquitted on charges of inciting public violence and convening a ward feedback meeting without notifying the police. Musekiwa was acquitted Tuesday at Masvingo magistrate courts following a full trial and was represented by lawyer Collins Maboke. The charges against Musekiwa arose […]
Operatives of the Nigeria police in Rivers State said they busted a suspected baby making factory and rescued six pregnant girls. Police said the arrest was made around Choba community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The new state Commissioner of Police, Polycarp Emeka, made the disclosure during his maiden media briefing in […]
Addis Abeba — Hailu Adugna, Oromia Communication Bureau head (Photo:Oromia Communication Bureau/Facebook) The Oromia regional government said it is carrying out a campaign of demolishing “illegal buildings” in more than 600 cities across the region, and defended the process as “constitutional and legal”. In a presser on Wednesday, head of the regional Communication Bureau, Hailu […]
Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has alleged that he was being “illegally held” in his home in Dakar by security forces and urged the public to protest. Meanwhile, a national dialogue between the government and various political actors has begun in the Senegalese capital. Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko broke his silence after his recent arrest, […]
No fewer than 18 persons, including a vigilante leader, have been killed in separate attacks on communities under the Ruwandoruwa ward of the Maru Local Government Area in Zamfara State. An eyewitness, Aminu Ilyasu, who is a member of a local vigilante group known as Yansakai, said the armed bandits targeted the vigilante leader of […]
Health Watchdog Reveals Troubling State of Public Healthcare in South Africa Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, the outgoing head of South Africa’s Office of the Health Ombudsman, criticised the country’s health department and government for the lack of independence in his office, reports News24. Makgoba called for the establishment of a separate independent office for the health […]
The women were returning from the inauguration of the new governor of Kaduna State. Two women leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Birnin Gwari Local Government were kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday. The chairman of the Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressive Union (BEPU), Ishaq Kasai, confirmed the development to reporters in Kaduna on Wednesday. […]
Angola authorities must release Tanaice Neutro, an activist who is being detained arbitrarily for more than 500 days despite suffering from severe health issues, Amnesty International said today. It is a travesty of justice that Tanaice Neutro remains in detention more than 500 days laterTigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa […]
Cape Town — Six West African nations lose U.S. $2.3 billion a year as a result of illegal fishing, says a new report from Amnesty International. The human rights group names Gambia, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone as the countries in the regions whose economies are damaged by the practice. The report, […]
Monrovia — The Ministry of Justice’s attempts to halt the enforcement of a judgment of acquittal in favor of the four defendants in the US$100m cocaine case, issued by Criminal Court ‘C’ at the Temple of Justice, have proven unsuccessful as the Supreme Court declined to issue the requested writ of prohibition. The Ministry had […]
Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, representing the Liberty Party in Montserrado County, announces here that the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with the Committee on National Security, Defense, Intelligence, and Veterans Affairs has agreed to summon the Ministry of Justice and other stakeholders for a hearing on the loss of a staggering US$1 million cocaine case recently. […]
The Chief Resident Magistrate’s court in Lilongwe has adjourned the Bushiri extradition case to July 10, 2023 following the defence application that witnesses statements were not authenticated according to the law. Both Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife were in court on Tuesday, so too the legal team from South Africa which wants the Bushiris […]
Tension has mounted in Oghior community, Udu local government area of Delta State as suspected oil bunkerers and security operatives drafted from Ovwian division were involved in a gun duel. The local vigilantes in the area were allegedly chased from the community by the suspected oil bunkerers and their security post at Oghior junction burnt […]
In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court has given parliament 24 months to amend tax legislation, and has ordered Sars to make a new decision on access to former president Jacob Zuma’s tax records. The Constitutional Court has ruled that sections of the Promotion to Access of Information Act (Paia) and the Tax […]