Federal government has announced a policy review aimed at enhancing transparency and efficiency in the process of contract awards. The minister of education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this to State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mamman said the central objective […]
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…. As runoff campaign period which is expected to be at least two weeks will also be announced. The National Elections Commission is expected to finally announce the results of the October 10 polls today, which have seen President George Weah neck and neck — with runoff elections all but certain. The article should state […]
For raping his wife’s niece, a Lagos doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Femi Olaleye, the managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife’s niece. The judge, Rahman Oshodi, of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence court in Lagos found the doctor guilty on […]
The government said security agencies had been alerted and charged to fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act. The Ebonyi State Government has reacted to the gruesome murder of a school principal and his teacher by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, describing it as “condemnable”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the principal, Simon Ominyi, […]
“This case has, sadly, brought together a combination of examples of what some individuals will do for money,” the UK court ruled. On Monday, the Nigerian government dodged having to pay out as much as $11 billion to a British Virgin Island company after a London judge ruled that the arbitration award for a failed […]
Nairobi — Chief Justice Martha Koome has presented two bills to Parliament, the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill 2023 and the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) 2023 in a move to reform Kenya’s criminal justice system. The proposed legislation aims to reduce sentences for individuals facing life imprisonment, particularly those convicted of capital offenses to 30 years. […]
-in underground mining Bea Mountain Mining Company has confirmed at least one dead, two in critical condition at the John F. Kennedy Medical Hospital in Sinkor, Monrovia, after a fatal accident during underground mining that occurred last Thursday, October 19, 2023, at its mining site in Kinjor, Grand Cape Mount County, Western Liberia. The Turkish […]
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Liberia: Police Charge 7 in Nimba
Nimba County — -for electoral violence Police in Nimba County have charged and sent to court, seven persons including a supervisor of the National Elections Commission (NEC) who presided over the Beo-Lontuo polling centers in Electoral District#4, Nimba. The seven have been charged with multiple crimes, including obstruction of government functions, criminal facilitation, criminal conspiracy, […]
BISHOFTU- Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS) stated that it is working in close collaboration with concerned bodies for acclimatizing citizens returned from overseas. Speaking at half day awareness creation forum organized on last Saturday with a view to heightening thoughtful about the regulation of re-establishing citizens returned from abroad and evaluating the 1st quarter […]
Police together with joint security teams have intensified operations to hunt for suspected terrorists who killed two foreign tourists and their Ugandan driver in Queen Elizabeth National Park. According to the Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga, they have deployed on highways and tourist sites to guarantee security as well as hunt for the attackers. “We are […]
Coal Exporters Asked to Pay Millions to Help Transnet Settle Chinese Dispute Major coal exporters in South Africa have been asked to contribute hundreds of millions of rands to assist Transnet in resolving a logistics crisis stemming from a dispute with a Chinese locomotive supplier, China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), reports News24. Transnet […]
Scattered bodies, police sirens and a high visibility of law enforcement agencies. This was the scene on the M1 south at the Athol Oaklands off ramp in Johannesburg. A police officer and four prisoners died on the busy M1 highway on Monday afternoon when a car crashed into a Saps vehicle travelling at high speed. […]
Abuja, Nigeria — Nigeria has recorded more than 800 incidents of extrajudicial killings across the country in the last three years, according to the international human rights group Global Rights. The Mass Atrocities Casualties report published by Global Rights says 848 extrajudicial executions took place in Nigeria between 2020 and June 2023, with 127 cases […]
The UK court upheld Nigeria’s prayer on the grounds that the ill-fated gas processing contract was obtained by fraud. Nigeria has won its bid to overturn an $11 billion damages bill involving the controversial Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) deal. Nigeria claims that the collapsed gas processing project was procured by a campaign of bribery […]
The Ugandan government has said it is yet to release the autopsy on the death of two foreign tourists killed in Queen Elizabeth National Park until they get an input from foreign forensic experts. Updating the country about the incident, police spokesperson, Fred Enanga said the bodies of the South African and British tourists have […]
A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court headed by John Okoro made the announcement after taking arguments from lawyers to the parties on Monday. The Supreme Court has reserved judgment on Peter Obi’s appeal seeking to invalidate President Bola Tinubu‘s election. A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court headed by John Okoro made the announcement […]
A 29-year-old Zimbabwean lawyer, Mr Edward Madziwa has made history by becoming a co-recipient of the prestigious Henry Dunant Research Prize for 2023. The award was presented by Mr François Bugnion, a board member of the Henry Dunant Foundation at the 15th Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law graduation ceremony held at the Maison de […]
Abuja — The Supreme Court has reserved its judgement on the appeal the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, filed to challenge the outcome of the presidential election that was held on February 25. A seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Inyang Okoro, okayed the matter for judgement, after […]