Three pregnant women were rescued as a baby factory was discovered by police operatives in Obodogba Community, Okpanam in Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State. It was also gathered that the police operatives arrested two suspects during the raid on the baby factory. Read Also: Selfish Northern govs pushed Tinubu into same-faith ticket — […]
Tag: Legal and Judicial Affairs
Law “B” has upheld Andrew Anderson, Project Director at the National Investment Commission complaint against Habakkuk Sackor for sleeping with Anderson’s wife Larina Anderson, believed to be an employee of the Ministry of Justice. Anderson on March 14, 2022, instituted a 300,000 United States dollars action of damage for injury to domestic relations against defendant […]
Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Director-General Mr. Edwin W. Harris says early next week the institution will mandate all banking and non-banking institutions that the position of compliance officer is non-rotational so as to make it independent. Following the launch, on 14 July 2022 of the Compliance Officers Forum of Liberia (COF-Liberia) in Monrovia, Harris told […]
Isiolo — President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged securities agencies to continue embracing the multi-agency approach in dealing with crime and safeguarding the security of Kenyans. President Kenyatta noted that the approach has enabled security officers drawn from different agencies to collaborate leading to a significant improvement in the state of security in the country. “I […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has clamoured for the establishment of an International Anti-Corruption Criminal Court to try offenders across the globe. He also urged fellow African leaders to intensify the fight against corruption, and create more disincentives for pilfering of public funds. In a recorded remark yesterday to celebrate the ‘African Day of Anti-Corruption,’ the President, […]
SERAP and 176 concerned Nigerians had filed the suit to challenge the suspension of Twitter’s operations in Nigeria in June last year. The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja, on Thursday, declared as unlawful last year’s suspension of Twitter by the Muhammadu Buhari government, ordering the government to desist from such an illegal act in […]
Nine people – including a former first lady, ex-generals and top officials – face charges of stealing aid in 2002 and storing illicit firearms. In recent months, the Seychelles government has sent shockwaves through the country as it has arrested several high-profile figures, including a former first lady and numerous ex-generals. Between November 2021 and […]
About 60 Mfuleni families moved into the hall after floods in June The City of Cape Town says it has opened a criminal case against people living in the Chris Hani Community Hall in Mfuleni since 14 June. About 60 families, mostly women and children, moved to the hall without permission after their shacks at […]
“It’s like solving a massive puzzle” says head archivist After the flames that gutted the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on 18 April 2021 were finally extinguished, the archives were thought to be lost. The Reading Room, where researchers could study some of the rare African books available from the short-loans […]
Cape Town — South African police say a championship belt given by American professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard to the country’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, has been stolen. Police say the belt was taken July 1 in a break-in at Mandela’s Soweto house, which was turned into a museum. Leonard’s World Boxing Council […]
In a new judgment of extraordinary importance for freedom of expression and media freedom in Namibia, that country’s highest court has confirmed the development of the common law to give greater protection to the Namibian media so that, as the court put it, its ‘important democratic role of providing information to the public is not […]
ZANU PF’s Abton Mashayanyika has blatantly urged ruling party supporters to kill Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa, his children and supporters. Mashayanyika, who was recorded while addressing supporters at Rampopo hills in Mberengwa North took time to explain a Zanu PF party slogan ‘Pasi’, that has over the years been used to […]
A total of 160 fisherfolk drawn from fishing communities in the Kpone Katamanso Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region were yesterday sensitised to illicit drug trafficking. The programme was organised by the Narcotic Control Commission (NACOC) in collaboration with the Assembly, with funding from the German Development Corporation (GIZ) and UKaid. The participants included […]
Monrovia — Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, who rose steeply to popularity in Liberia and gained public respect as a result of his actions and messages on “accountability” has again come under the spotlight for allegedly receiving $30,000 United States Dollars for “legislative projects”. But Dillon has, however, denied receiving any money. Taking to social media […]
Monrovia — The Financial Intelligence Unit of Liberia (FIUL) has taken its fight against money laundering and other financial crimes to another level following the confiscation and subsequent turnover of US$284,000 to the Government of Liberia. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Director General of the FIUL Edwin W. Harris said the money was […]
Following a suit by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians, the ECOWAS Court has “declared unlawful the suspension of Twitter by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, and ordered the administration never to repeat it again.” This development was disclosed today by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare. It would be recalled […]
Monrovia — The Legislature is being asked to recast the 2022 National Budget in order to remove the US$25 million contributed by ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML) as a result of the need to ratify its Mineral Development Agreement No. 3. AML’s contribution would be replaced it with an expected US$30 million resulting from the signing of […]
Addis Abeba: The Addis Abeba city Administration has annulled recent public housing lotto under the city’s government’s condominium saving scheme known as 20/80 and 40/60 and was about to be distributed for thousands city residents. The Mayor’s office said yesterday that the lotto has been revoked entirely after allegations of tech tampering by the city […]