A new twist has been raised in the on going brouhaha over the abduction of Nornu Yobo, the elder brother of Super Eagles star Joseph with fears being expressed that the whole thing may have been stage-managed.
Inspector General of Police, Sir Mike Okiro, yesterday in Abuja charged Police Chiefs in the West African sub-region to rise to the challenge posed by crime by squarely addressing issues of police welfare and corruption in the region.
The only Tanzanian boxer who secured a Beijing Olympic berth Emilian Patrick, has been ruled out of the games, the Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) secretary general Filbert Bayi confirmed yesterday.
The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) has dragged a 44-year-old former employee of Botswana Building Society (BBS) bank before the Village Magistrate to answer two 233 charges of fraud and stealing by servant.
Counsels for defendant Roosevelt Quiah in the forgery case have requested the Monrovia Magisterial Court to dismiss prosecution's exception to the defendant's criminal appearance bond.
Former Energy and Minerals minister Nazir Karamagi was yesterday cleared in Parliament over his defence that the cabinet authorized the extension of the Tanzania International Container Terminal (Ticts) in which he is a major shareholder.
The President of the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT), Alhaji Shaban Mintanga, yesterday appeared before a Dar es Salaam court, facing charges of trafficking narcotic drugs worth Sh120 million.
The government yesterday came under renewed attack in Parliament over dubious mining and power contracts it signed with investors, with the opposition camp pressing for complete exposure on the contracts.
Sometimes the photos end up in everyone's hands, via the Internet. "It used to be that kids would make mistakes, and it was local and singular and everyone knew it was part of growing up," said Catherine Davis, who had
Amidst reports in a section of media saying the three youngsters were trainee pilots with the airliner, Kingfisher said today that none of the three students were employees of Kingfisher Airlines. As regards to the flight instructor Vilas Naik (61),
Meanwhile four teams have been constituted to track down the dismissed constables Balraj Singh and Silak Ram who are absconding, Rohtak Range Inspector General of Police, Anil Dabra told over phone. He hoped that the duo would be traced soon
Chief Judicial Magistrate Ranu Rao directed them to appear before the court on July 9. Bhuram Devi, wife of a suspended jail warden, accused jail officials of physical harassment when she went to inquire about her husband on April 2.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Pratibha Rani in a recent order acquitted Mohammad Anzar, a resident of Ashok Vihar in North Delhi, and said "From the perusal of the record, it was reflected that the 20-year-old victim herself had gone with
INLD Chief and former Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala termed the shocking incident as a "blot on the state government and a pointer to the sad state of affairs in Haryana." "Hooda has no moral right to continue as Chief
Sharma was arrested after an FIR was registered against him by a woman research scholar in Agra University under various sections of the IPC including 376 (rape) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) at Kasganj police station in Kashiram Nagar, Additional
Ravi Upindranath Verma, who runs a transport business in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, used to call up random landline numbers in the north east suburb of Mulund posing as a MTNL vigilance officer and went ahead if a woman took the
The girl, admitted to Civil Hospital here last night, has been kept under observation for 48 hours, they said, adding she fainted reportedly after a meeting with her parents. In February, the victim, then a first-year student of the PTC,
The police did not give the name of the suspect arrested in Lisbon, in accordance with force policy. Portugal's state news agency Lusa identified him as Ulrich Schulz, 59, and said he would likely be extradited to Germany. Shultz is
However, a medical examination revealed that she was not sexually assaulted. When interrogated, a senior police officer claimed, she did not provide proper information about the incident and investigators suspect that an NGO activist provoked her to claim so. She
