A member of Imo State House of Assembly representing Obowo State Constituency, Honourable Celestine Ogobiwu, was on Wednesday evening kidnapped in Owerri, while returning from a gym, close sources said.

Police Wednesday arrested Mohamed Sesay an alleged rapist at Clarkes quarter, Ngaiya town, Nimikoro chiefdom, Kono district.

The Njala university Bo campus student who allegedly stabbed a fellow student Chernoh Tonkara to death has made her first appearance before hon justice Naomi Tunis for the offense of murder contrary to law at the Bo high court.

Police in Kambia have arrested 5 Guinean trucks, at Bamoi Lumor close to the Guinean border, fully loaded with foodstuffs apparently meant for sale in neighbouring Guinea where an end of government subsidy triggered economic woes.

A wheelbarrow pusher Momoh Sesay has been arrested with one hundred and twenty two (122) short guns and AK 47 cartridges along Dambala Road in Bo.

The Office of the Prosecutor General is to carry out DNA test to ascertain whether a city Pastor, Luis Empo Mbayi, fathered the baby of a 16-year old girl.

In January of this year the popular brothel known as "Soldier Bar," at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, was raided, followed by the arrest of more than 160 mostly teenage prostitutes. Although the women taken into custody were registered into

Barely 48 hours to the inauguration of former Bayelsa State governor, Chief Timipre Sylva's campaign for governorship re-run, and President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's expected first visit to the state, explosion rocked Yenagoa, the state capital, yesterday.

NAAVA Nabagesera, the former presidential aide on legal affairs, was yesterday convicted and fined for obtaining money by false pretence.

THE World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) has warned industry players in the construction industry to shun corruption, which has emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to the country's economic turnaround.

SUSPECTS from Butiiti Prison in Mwenge county, Kyenjojo district, walk 38kms to the court for trial.

The Mozambican police gunned down two suspected armed robbers, one of them identified simply as "Abdul", on Thursday morning, when they were trying to break into a home in Emilia Dausse Avenue in central Maputo.

ANTICORRUPTION watchdog Transparency International said yesterday legislation to disband the Scorpions was a blow to the African National Congress's (ANC's) integrity.

The Government yesterday said it will sue the Norwegian engineering consulting firm, Norconsult, following its abrupt decision to pull out of Tanzania following corruption allegations.

The fight against graft in the Uganda Police Force gained momentum on Wednesday when operatives of the Police Professional Standards Unit (PPSU) arrested 17 traffic officers on the spot for allegedly soliciting bribes from errant drivers.

SOUTH Africans feel less secure than they did five years ago, says a survey of crime victims by the Institute for Security Studies.

Thousands of people were left homeless when property worthy millions of shillings were destroyed in Nairobi's Kangemi estate.

A spokesperson for displaced people at Kitale showground was arrested after he differed with the local District Commissioner on resettlement.

A 14-year-old girl tearfully narrated in a Livingstone magistrates court how she was defiled in an open pre-school building.

Calls for the trial of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over alleged corrupt practices swelled across the nation yesterday as different rallies were organised in Abuja and Kaduna by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Coalition of Northern Nigeria Civil