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THE Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC is now demanding that the police, army and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) be placed under the effective control of parties to the inclusive government agreement after the security apparatus has of late been used to target MDC members and human rights activists.
More than three years after a N30 billion contract was awarded to a Chinese company for the supply of one N17, 12 F7 and five other Chinese aircraft for military flying operations by the Nigerian Airforce, delivery of the aircraft is yet to be effected even after over 85 percent payment obligations had been made by the Nigerian government.
About 152 motorcyclists had been arrested by the Anambra State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) for compulsory use of helmet since the order came into effect January 1, 2009.
The controversy over who has the constitutional power to institute a probe panel into the November 28, 2008 sectarian riots in Jos, Plateau State has taken another turn.
Rwandan Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, has confirmed that at least 17 people are under investigations for their involvement in mismanagement of Funds for Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG), established some ten years ago.
Attempts to charge Sudan's leaders with war crimes in Darfur have dramatically changed the country's political scene, says a new report by the British think tank Chatham House.
Nsimba Embete Ponte, editor of the Kinshasa-based bi-weekly "L'Interprète", was released from prison on 7 January 2009 after serving a 10-month sentence.
Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Tomaz Salamao, the executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), urging his regional organisation to put pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to release journalist and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko as soon as possible.
Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-year prison sentence handed down to Lewis Medjo, managing editor of the weekly La Détente libre, and urged the authorities to allow him bail. He has been in Douala central prison in the west of the country since 22 September 2008.
Two new contingents of the Nigerian po-lice, each consisting 140 police officers, have been deployed to the United Nations African Union Mission in Dafur (UNAMID), Sudan.
HEAVILY armed soldiers and state security agents at the weekend reportedly raided an outdoor adventure camp in Ruwa on suspicion that it was a military training base for bandits intending to topple President Robert Mugabe.
STATE secret service agents allegedly assaulted, tortured and detained human rights activist Jestina Mukoko in solitary confinement for 19 days to coerce her to admit recruiting youths for military training in Botswana to dislodge President Robert Mugabe from power.
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has warned importers and distributors of protective helmets for motorcyclists in Nigeria to ensure that they import and distribute only products that meet the specifications of the Nigerian Industrial Standard (NIS 68:1975) for the product.
KEY witnesses who gave damning evidence at the Waki Commission on post-election violence are in hiding following the state's failure to offer them protection.
British minister in the foreign and commonwealth office for Africa, Asia and the UN has pledged his department's support to fighting drugs smuggling in Sierra Leone.
House of Representatives eight- man ad-hoc Committee on Jos Crisis has rejected the position of the Government of Plateau State that it's an illegal body.
The resumed sitting of the Military Court Martial trying 28 soldiers who protested last year over the non-payment of their foreign mission allowance became rowdy yesterday at the 323 Artillery Regiment in Akure, the Ondo state capital.
THE Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna, yesterday, dismissed the petition against the election of Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shehu shema, and his Kano state counterpart, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, for lack of merit.
THE Benue State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission has warned commercial motorcycle operators that it would commence the enforcement of the use of crash helmet order by motorcyclist at the expiration of the two weeks extension requested by the Benue State Government.
The health department would oppose the bid by dispensing doctors to have the courts scrap the laws controlling the fees they may charge for medicines they provide to their patients, health department spokesman Fidel Hadebe said yesterday.
THERE seems to be no end in sight to the crisis between the Plateau State and the Federal Government over who has the right to investigate the recent crisis in Jos, as the state government has called on the National Assembly to hands-off their ongoing investigations into the matter.
Judges in Zimbabwe with their farms, posh cars, plasma TV's and other monetary perks took their brazen loyalty to Mugabe's regime to new heights Friday.
The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has resurrected the old debate over the declaration of assets by government officials which died a natural death sometime ago.
The Mozambican police have announced the death in a gun battle of Luis de Jesus Tomas ("Todinho"), one of the three assassins who escaped from the cells of the Maputo City Police Command on 7 December.
A former House of Representatives member, Alhaji Nasiru Garba Dantiye, has described the ongoing EFCC instigation in Jigawa as a welcome development, urging the leadership of the state not to be perturbed by their presence.
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