AS operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) intensify their efforts to bring alleged corrupt politicians to book, some governors, whose states have been targeted by the anti-graft agency, have declared that they have no reason to fear the body. Already, EFCC officials have stormed Rivers and Imo states and it is believed [...]
Johannesburg – Former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi was on Monday granted leave to appeal his 15-year jail sentence. He may only appeal the question of whether he received payments from convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti, said Judge Meyer Joffe in the South Gauteng High Court. “Leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal [...]
We’ve all received e-mails from deposed Nigerian princes asking for help in getting lots of money out of their country. But that’s just one of several scams that made Panda Security’s list of the most frequent online cons of a decade. As 2010 starts to wind down, the security vendor on Thursday unveiled its rankings [...]
Although Nigeria contributed much to liberate South Africa from the stranglehold of apartheid and, thereafter, threw her economic doors wide open for South African investors and goods, these actions have not stopped a low estimation of her citizens by South Africans, the South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Kingsley Mamabola, said on Tuesday, in Abuja, [...]
The UN on Wednesday said the number of civilians who had been brutally gang raped recently in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo now exceeds 240. The UN alleged July 30 that Congolese militants of the Mai-Mai group and Rwandan rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) descended [...]
All those who took bribes in awarding the contract for Africa’s first liquefied natural gas plant will soon be charged to court, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, said yesterday in Abuja. He said the Federal government is close to prosecuting those indicted in what has come to be [...]
A Nigerian governor said on Monday that reports of child abuse associated with witchcraft in his state are greatly exaggerated. Akwa Ibom State Gov. Godswill Akpabio spoke after CNN aired a story that found evidence of children being accused of practicing black magic. Some of the children had been beaten, burned with boiling water and [...]
The Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga was intentionally kept in the dark on plans to admit Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir into the country for the ceremony of signing Kenya’s new constitution, his party said today amid growing divisions in the cabinet on the decision to invite him. The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Secretary General [...]
Ethiopian high court passed jail terms ranging between 16-19 years behind bars against 30 defendants who were found guilty of perpetrating terrorism acts. According to the state-run Ethiopian television, four of the defendants are sentenced each to 19 years of rigorous jail while the remaining 25 are sentenced to 16 years each and a 5-year [...]
ANTANANARIVO — The sentencing of Madagascar’s former president Marc Ravalomanana to hard labour for life may prove to be one more obstacle in the island’s attempts to emerge from its current political crisis. Ravalomanana, who lives in exile in South Africa, was sentenced in absentia Saturday by a court in Antananarivo for his part in [...]
