By armed policemen in masks

SOME persons masquerading as members of some political parties are reported to have swindled the Delta State Government by collecting part of the N10 million recently disbursed to political parties, Vanguard investigation has shown.

Corruption had become so endemic that observers have come to the conclusion that it is the virus that caused the "acquired fiscal management deficiency syndrome" of governance in Liberia.

Corruption may largely be blamed for the decade-long slump in the Liberian economy, but most economists agree that part of the problem lies in the collapse of the banking system for various reasons, the main culprit being war.

Assistant inspector general of police yesterday disclosed that they were working closely with the attorney general's office to ensure that suspects in the cocaine matter are charged to court by Thursday July 24.

The provincial court in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa has sentenced the director of youth and sport in the Niassa provincial government, Alfredo Ajana, and an accomplice named Vasco Ravia, to 16 years imprisonment for theft.

The gang that kidnapped a Dutch woman in Maputo two weeks ago were rounded up almost immediately by the police because of the cell phone they used to demand a ransom, reports Wednesday's issue of the Maputo weekly "Magazine Independente"

Banks that receive court penalty fees will soon be required to extend their working hours a little longer from 4pm to 5:30 pm to allow suspects charged late to pay their bond fees and avoid being remanded.

The inability of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to produce the Chairman of Global Fleet Oil and Gas Limited and Group Managing Director of NICON Insurance, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim , before an Ikeja High Court yesterday stalled his

It's a warm, humid afternoon, and hundreds of students are gathered at Flamingo Secondary School Hall, chatting animatedly in small groups.

Statistics revealed by deputy Home Affairs minister Mr Khamis Kagasheki in Parliament on Monday, help to show the magnitude of HIV/Aids infection in the country's prison system.

THE Asset Forfeiture Unit yesterday seized a property of a man suspected of belonging to an international drug syndicate.

FIVE residents of Lira district have been killed in the past three weeks over land disputes, the Police have said. The community liaison officer at Lira Central Police Station, Jodaga Gemonamola, said the incidents occurred in the sub-counties of Amac,

The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) has criticised the Statutory Instrument which gives the Police powers to ban an assembly of more than 25 people in Kampala and all upcountry towns.

Students from schools affected by unrest have given a wide range of reasons for their actions, most of which resulted in losses running into millions of shillings.

A school affiliated to the Catholic church was yesterday closed after riots.

Senate investigation into the groaning food crisis took a curious dimension yesterday as the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) Mr Ibrahim Dankwambo, the Director General of Budget Mr Bright Okogu and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water and Resources

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed into law an act, making armed robbery, terrorism and hijacking capital offenses.

Last Friday, students of Kuoyo Kochia Secondary School in Homa Bay District damaged their school after objecting to being frisked before entering the examination room.

Seven people including a 50 year old Nigerian and a Ghanaian business man were yesterday in Lagos arrested for drug related offences.