Acting Commissioner of the Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS), Chabana Majara, is locked in a fresh legal fight with his subordinate, Bokang Ramotena. This time the fight is over Commissioner Majara’s decision to demote her from current rank of Sergeant to the lowest LCS rank of Assistant Correctional Officer. High Court Judge ‘Maseforo Mahase on Tuesday […]
Namibia has recorded a drastic drop in poaching cases with only two rhinos poached so far this year compared to 13 poaching cases recorded at the same period last year, the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism spokesperson, Romeo Muyunda said this week. According to Muyunda, the country’s investment in fighting poaching has resulted in […]
It’s been a weekend of great courtroom drama in Zimbabwe. Three High Court judges unanimously decided that the country’s Chief Justice, Luke Malaba, was constitutionally barred from continuing in office beyond his 70th birthday on 15 May. In response to this decision, the country’s Minister of Justice, Legal & Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi, issued a […]
South African media personality, Bonang Matheba has taken legal action against YouTuber, Rea Gobane over allegations she introduced her former lover, popular rapper AKA to cocaine. Gobane made the accusations on a podcast centering on AKA’s late fiancee, Anele ‘Nellie’ Tembe on his YouTube channel, Everything SA Music. Nellie fell to her death from the […]
Barely a week after the Karonga Senior Resident Magistrate Court fined and ordered two Tanzanian nationals for illegal entry and stay in the country, Police in Mzimba have on Tuesday intercepted 10 people of Bangladeshi nationality for illegal entry. Particular details of the arrested remain scanty but Mzimba police deputy publicist, John Nyirongo, said the […]
A group of 34 Tobias Hainyeko residents, who say they were arrested on 26 April for allegedly illegally occupying land at the Oshitenda One Nation informal settlement in Windhoek, says their appeals for a solution to their plight are falling on deaf ears. Grace Martins (39), who is part of the group that includes children, […]
Cabinet is expected to pronounce itself on the abolishment of the common law offences of sodomy and unnatural sexual offences after minister of justice Yvonne Dausab submits a report to it within two weeks. This comes after the Law Reform and Development Commission submitted the ‘Report on the abolishment of the common law offences of […]
Landless People’s Movement (LPM) parliamentarians Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb have asked the Supreme Court to interdict and restrain National Assembly speaker Peter Katjavivi from further interfering with their rights to attend sessions of the National Assembly or to make contributions during debates. They also want the Supreme Court to declare Katjavivi’s decision to suspend […]
“We also arrested a delivery man who was in possession of a birthday cake infused with 1.2kg of Cannabis sativa.” The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Oyo State has intercepted baked cakes made with Cannabis sativa on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The NDLEA Commander, Josephine Obi, made this known in an interview with the […]
He is scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday. An aide to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State is currently enmeshed in over $350,000 (about N140 million) COVID-19 unemployment fraud in the United States. Abidemi Rufai, who works as Senior Special Assistant to Mr Abiodun, was arrested last Friday, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in […]
On July 21, 2017, a truck driver Daniel Musya was on his way to deliver a 40-feet container at the Kenya Ports Authority when he was fired. He had delivered the container at 4am but was caught up in a traffic snarl-up within the facility as he tried to leave. He was then instructed by […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said yesterday that the military needs more funding because Nigeria is at war. Gbajabiamila, who stated this at a public hearing on a bill seeking to establish a special trust fund for the Armed Forces, said insecurity in the country has made extra funding for the military […]
Suspended Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, yesterday dismissed claims by a former board member of the agency, Senator Binta Garba, that she was removed from office because she asked questions about its operations. But reacting yesterday, Hadiza in a statement, said Garba’s claim was not only spurious but also presented her […]
The contest over the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba’s service by another five years yesterday reached the Supreme Court with Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Zayambi Ziyambi and Attorney General Advocate Prince Machaya separately filing their notices of appeal against an urgent High Court judgment made on Saturday. Both Minister Ziyambi and the […]
A former parliamentarian who was convicted of high treason and other charges, and is currently serving an 18-year prison term, lost his bid to be released on medical grounds after the High Court dismissed his application yesterday. Judge Kobus Miller dismissed 65-year-old Geoffrey Mwilima’s application, deemed the matter finalised and removed it from the roll, […]
Landless People’s Movement leaders Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb are challenging a High Court decision that dismissed a case in which they were suing the speaker of the National Assembly Peter Katjavivi for kicking them out of the chamber. A fortnight ago, the Windhoek High Court dismissed, with cost, a case in which the two […]
A Taraba-based socio-cultural group, Taraba Interest Group, TIG, has condemned the killing of no fewer than 30 natives in some communities in Bali Local Government Area of the state by suspected herdsmen, saying it would resist any attempt at making the state ungovernable. The group in a statement by its spokesman, Yohana Silas, said the […]
Lawyers who filed a High Court application leading to the removal of Chief Justice Luke Malaba from office have dismissed government claims they were pursuing a political agenda but instead vowed to sacrifice their lives fighting and defending the country’s Constitution. Prominent human rights lawyers Tendai Biti and Thabani Mpofu were speaking at a press […]