A chief in Gutu, Masvingo Province, is lucky to be alive after he was severely assaulted and left for dead by youths aligned to a rival chief in a boundary dispute which has been raging for close 26 years.
The US State Department "Crime and Safety Report on Cameroon for 2008," indicates that high unemployment is a major cause of criminality in Yaounde, Douala and other towns in the country.
If the expectations of those who rabidly opposed the appointment of Mrs Farida Waziri as the new chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are anything to take seriously, by now, the whole organizational structures of the anti-graft agency
The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Ibrahim Dank-wambo, yesterday told the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the Transportation sector that he approved the mandates leading to the alleged N30.9 billion withdrawals by the Transportation Ministry.
I was explaining that they could buy diesel from somewhere else as the old woman was not willing to reduce her price when the DO pounced on me. He grabbed my shirt collar and started raining blows on my head."
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan yesterday explained that contrary to reports that his convoy was attacked by armed robbers, his advanced security team rather flushed out the robbers from the highway.
The Ministry of Justice announces that it was constrained to secure from the Monrovia City Court a warrant of arrest for Mr. Roosevelt Quiah for the commission of the crime of forgery committed by him while he was on the
A Swiss-based activist group has said it is imploring Swiss authorities to freeze President Paul Biya's account in that country and repatriate the stolen money.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested and paraded over 13 persons suspected to commit various types of crime in the state, including nine persons alleged to members of a syndicate which specialized in kidnapping.
THE Office of the President and the Congress of Democrats (CoD) are at loggerheads over the perceived reluctance by the Head of State to act against alleged corrupt top politicians.
Twenty police officers from three African countries have been empowered to analyse criminal law and criminal activities at both local and international levels in order to collaboratively fight crimes worldwide, a police official has said.
Shebeens or informal liquor trading places serve as a means of livelihood for the owners and those depending on them. In many cases, the owners are unemployed and solely rely on the shebeen businesses for a living. Those negatively affected
The leadership of minority parties in the House of Representatives has berated their colleagues in the Adamawa State House of Assembly for dumping the impeachment move against Governor Murtala Nyako.
Former military governor of Niger state, retired naval chief and a successful farmer, Murtala Nyako is in a new terrain as governor of Adamawa State. Recently, the state House of Assembly served him an impeachment notice, owing to several allegations
The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri to properly investigate the fraud in the aviation sector involving two former Ministers of Aviation.
Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Michael Aondoakaa, and his finance counterpart, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman, yesterday shunned the invitation of the Senate committee on aviation to appear before it in connection with the N19.5billion aviation intervention
