The federal government yesterday said it would soon reveal those behind recent terrorist attacks in Plateau, Kaduna and other parts of the country. This pledge is coming just a day after the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) asked the president to resign from office if he cannot secure the lives and property of Nigerians following rising […]
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The report covered many issues, including civil and human rights, corruption in the public sector and impunity in Nigeria’s security architecture. The United States Government says impunity and corruption, among other vices, are major drivers of impunity in Nigeria’s security agencies, including the police, the State Security Service, and the army. The U.S. government, through […]
Based on percentage, the northern part of the country recorded 2,575 (86.8%) while the southern part of the country recorded 393 deaths averaging (13.2%) At least, 2,968 people were killed while 1,484 were abducted in Nigeria from January to March 2022, according to data released by the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST) Nigeria Security Tracker (NST), […]
“The various arms of security are working night and day to unravel the mystery surrounding the attack as a whole and the kidnapped people.” The Nigerian government says it is doing all it can to free the dozens of people kidnapped from a train in Kaduna last month. Information minister Lai Mohammed said though the […]
“What is happening now is that there is a kind of an unholy handshake between bandits and Boko Haram insurgents.” Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said bandits operating in the North-west and parts of the North-central zones are now collaborating with Boko Haram terrorists who were dislodged from the North-east region. […]
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the mass abduction of school girls in Chibok town which brought the once obscure Borno State community to global attention. On the night of that day today, Boko Haram terrorists invaded the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, and abducted a total of 276 schoolgirls from their dormitory. It was […]
Windhoek High Court acting Judge Kobus Miller yesterday indicated he will endeavour to deliver his ruling on a recusal application brought by Fishrot accused Ricardo Gustavo and former minister of fisheries Bernhard Esau. Trevor Brockerhoff, the lawyer of Gustavo, yesterday said the basis of their application is perceived bias against his client following damaging remarks […]
Business tycoon Erastus ‘Chicco’ Shapumba has won a court battle against the Oshakati town council over the acquisition of the old open market, known as Omatala, at the northern town. In 2016, the council sold erf 1342, previously known as Omatala, to Mouse Properties Ninety-Eight, solely owned by Shapumba, for N$2.5 million. The plot of […]
The High Court will give new trial dates in May when the court will be available to hear the case of an estate administrator accused of stealing N$7.4 million from two estates. Yesterday, Judge Herman January indicated it would not be prudent to give trial dates when the accused Mervin Kozonguizi’s lawyer is not present. […]
Acting MEC of Community Safety, Anroux Marais, commends the recent successful Joint Crime Prevention Operations executed by the Department of Community Safety supported Reaction Units, in particular the LEAP Programme as well as the K9 Units across the province. On Friday, 8 April 2022, the Overstrand Municipality, Law Enforcement Task team and K9 unit stopped […]
Liberia is nearing its General and Presidential Elections come 2023 after years of George M. Weah’s leadership as President of Liberia. Elections are expected next year, October 2023, but the main day is not confirmed yet as it is far, but yet close in the eyes of politicians. As the country prepares to go to […]
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Liberia: Protest At HPX Office
Several protesters on Monday, April 11 gathered at the offices of IVANHOE Liberia, a subsidiary of HPX mining company demanding an alleged corruption probe into payment made to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Recently, a leaked cash receipt of US$500,000 (five hundred thousand United States dollars) was allegedly received by the Speaker, Dr. […]
Monrovia — Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL), a national human rights organization is calling on the Liberian Government to ensure the abolition of the death penalty as a nation. The Republic of Liberia deposited the instrument of accession to the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in September 2005, […]
Monrovia — The United States Department of State has released the 2021 Country Report on Human Rights, which among other things, suggests the lack of independence in the Liberian justice system. The report authoritatively stated that judges and magistrates were subject to influence and engaged in corruption. “Judges sometimes solicited bribes to try cases, grant […]
Civil society organisation in Malawi have accused a High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal judges for suspected shielding of corruption actors in the procurement scandal that favours a criminalised bidder from Switzerland. Sources within the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) have blamed Board Member Lincoln Bailey, a Jamaican businessman married to a Kenyan woman as […]
Local sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the bandits attacked a privately run hostel opposite the school at around 11.24 p.m. and abducted many of the students in the residence. Gunmen, locally known as bandits, on Tuesday night, abducted a yet-to-be-confirmed number of female students of the Zamfara State College of Health Technology, Tsafe. Tsafe is […]
A controversy is now brewing around the disappearance of about 19 containers of unknown items destined for a major Lagos based Bonded Terminal from Tin-can Island port from the port. Vanguard Maritime Reports gathered that the missing consignments must have been “flown out” (moved) out of the port without official clearance by the approving authorities, […]
Millions of donors’ money particularly Global Fund grants have disappeared at the Ministry of Health (MoH) through systemic theft and abusive practices by health officials, the Fund’s investigative report has revealed. The report which was released on April 8, 2022, and covers activities from 2018 thru 2022, says health authorities under the watchful eyes of […]