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IT is the festive season again and with all the merry- making and glad tidings that come with the ending of the year- the joys of Christmas and the grand anticipations of the new year - also come the not-too pleasant realities of the rise in the crime rate and other related vices.
The Minister of Local Government (minaloc), Protais Musoni, has publicly admitted that there are serious challenges to wrestle with vis-à-vis service delivery at local administrative levels.
The head of the Directorate on Intelligence and Security Services (DISS), Isaac Kgosi has encouraged senior labour officers to frustrate efforts by some foreigners who thrive on bogus documents.
POLICE in Lusaka yesterday shot dead five suspected dangerous criminals in a fierce exchange of fire in which one officer was shot and wounded.
The Nigeria Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Ekiti State Command, has intercepted a Lagos-Abuja-bound commercial vehicle with 20 grammes of cocaine stocked in a Bible.
An Aba based human rights group, Human Rights, Justice and Peace Foundation (HRJPF) has called on the Federal Government to release the White Paper on the Presidential Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the killing at Orie Ohabiam, Aba, Abia State. The Commission sat in October, 2005.
A 60-year-old man whose name was given as Jonathan Ohanson has been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command for allegedly minting fake Naira notes and foreign currencies.
Khartoum has long maintained a studious silence over its suspicions that the Kenyan government was assisting the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which governs the semi-autonomous south of Sudan to replenish its armament.
Detainees kept in police custody in Equatorial Guinea are victims of systematic torture, and prisoners suffer inhuman conditions, an independent United Nations human rights expert said in a press statement today, blaming a break down in the country's judicial system.
THERE are Indications that the Presidency may merge the two anti-corruption agencies, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), to speed up the anti-graft war.
Since Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, challenged the leadership of the House of Representatives under Hon. Demeji Bankole to explain its role in the approval given for the purchase of 380 Peugeot 407 cars for the oversight functions of the House committees, the House has not known peace.
There was a forlorn hope that Nigeria's political elite would learn a positive lesson from the Èlan with which Senator John McCain, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, gracefully conceded defeat on the fourth of November. Alas, despite the posturing about being elated with Barrack Obama's election as the 44th President of the United States of America, it is obvious that ...
Cadbury Nigeria Plc and two of its executive directors are to be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over misstatements in the company's 2004-2005 annual report.
When the Lagos State government came up with the idea of setting up Rapid Response Squad (RRS) few years ago, it had one major objective to give the robbers terrorising the state the battle of their lives and free the state of terror. Former Governor Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who set it up, gave the unit the needed support even though there seemed to be no proportionate result. The excuse then was that ...
On 17 November 2008, Swaziland's Attorney General, Majahenkhaba Dlamini, warned that journalists who report critically against the government would be viewed as supporting "terrorists" and arrested.
THE Senate yesterday confirmed former head of Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan as Chairman of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
Lagos state government will from January 2009 commence the arrest and prosecution of parents or guardians whose wards are found hawking during the school hours.
The twenty-two Phillipinos Arrested by the joint Military task Force (JTF) for allegedly engaging in illegal oil bunkering', in the Niger Delta will soon be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for prosecution.
Theft of electricity cables over the past two weeks in the Maputo suburbs of Triunfo and Costa do Sol have caused Mozambique's publicly-owned electricity company, EDM, losses estimated at 60,000 US dollars, according to a report in Wednesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".
Fernando Mbararano, the political delegate in the central province of Sofala of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has claimed that the ruling Frelimo Party is illicitly transporting people from other parts of the province to vote in the municipal election in Beira.
It was drama yesterday as the House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges battled to nip in the bud, a brewing crisis over the purchase of 380 Peugeot 407 cars for House standing committees.
Two members of a five-man robbery gang were yesterday gunned down, by the police at about 2pm in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, while attempting to rob members of the public in the Central Area of the city. Three other members of the gan escaped with bullet wounds.LEADERSHIP gathered that an eagle-eyed member of the public, suspecting the menacing movement of the hoodlums, had alerted ...
The tradition of collection of illegal tolls at various points across the country had a negative implication on three police officers attached to the Rivers State Police Command when they were shot dead by a group later discovered to be mlitants.
THE Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) has acknowledged that corruption is still rampant and remains a challenge in its operations despite previous efforts to prevent the scourge.
A 29- year- old gardener was yesterday arraigned before an Abuja magistrate court over allegations of breach of trust and theft.The accused, Godwin Ring, was charged for abandoning a job assigned to him by one Amina Muhammed and also stealing a canopy from the lady's compound.
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