UGANDA will use its two-year tenure as a non-permanent member at the United Nations Security Council to table regional security concerns, especially the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the longstanding Lords Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in

Reprieve came on Tuesday for former Minister of State for Health, Gabriel Aduku, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) dropped charges against him of complicity in the unauthorised disbursement of N300 million unspent budget of the ministry.

National Agency For Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has banned 40 substandard drugs in the country.

Anyone caught smoking in public places would henceforth be prosecuted, according to an anti-smoking law passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday.

Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is to produce an integrity manual for primary schools, Chairman of the commission, Emmanuel Ayoola, has said.

The recent attack on Dungu town in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) occurred on a quiet morning, displaced civilians said.

It is high time someone gave it a serious thought - parts of eastern Congo should secede.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) today confirmed its earlier decision to suspend the trial of a Congolese rebel leader accused of recruiting child soldiers to serve in his militia, but ordered that he remain in detention pending another hearing.

The Security Council today voiced deep concern over the recent resurgence of violence in the easternmost provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), warning of its potential to undermine the wider Great Lakes region of Central Africa.

Almost every day victims of amputation, rape and other forms of atrocities by rebels loyal to the RUF in Sierra Leone are making their way to the Dutch city of The Hague to testify against the former Liberian president, Charles

The dispute between Thabo Mbeki, immediate past President of South Africa, and Jacob Zuma, his erstwhile Deputy, which led to the long trial of the latter and the latest legal and political denouement in the former apartheid enclave, is a

Two months after a three-storey building housing a supermarket in Marhaba area of Kano State collapsed, a storey-building under construction on the busy Murtala Mohammed Way, owned by a new generation bank yesterday collapsed in the ancient city.

THE trial of an Okahandja resident accused of raping an 80-year-old woman in her home failed to start as scheduled in the Windhoek Regional Court yesterday, after the suspect's lawyer withdrew from the case.

Nigeria's vision 20-20-20 can only be achieved if the country can make its citizenry to imbibe the culture of science and technology, with the laboratory as its focus. Director of the Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT) Dr. Ighodalo

Hundreds of prisoners on Nigeria's death rows did not have a fair trial and may be innocent, rights group Amnesty International (AI) has said.

None of the telecommunications and ICT companies in Nigeria was listed in the 10 "winning" ICT pilot projects of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) for rural connectivity this year.

Lawyers defending former deputy director of the National Port Authority (NPA), Hans Williams and his fiancée Mardea Paykue have filed a motion to release their clients from further detention.

Residents of Ifako-Ijaye local government area of Lagos state have urged the State government through the Ministry of Works and Infrasructure to take urgent step towards the repair of the Pen Cinema-Ishaga- College roads following the problems encounterd everyday by

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in its relentless efforts to rid the country of fake and substandard drugs and other health-sensitive products, has blacklisted 22 Indian pharmaceutical companies from importing and, or distributing drugs

JUSTICE Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana tabled a few technical amendments to the existing Prevention of Organised Crime Act in Parliament yesterday.