The United States bombed a town in southern Somalia on Monday in a strike on suspected terrorists, United States defense officials told news agencies. Six people are reported dead.
AN 18-year-old Windhoek resident who is accused of murdering his parents in their home in Khomasdal six weeks ago denied both charges against him when he gave his plea in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court in Katutura on Friday.
A SEARCH for additional documentation related to an allegedly corrupt scrap copper sale agreement that Telecom Namibia had with one of Namibia's largest scrap dealers, Dresselhaus Scrap CC, has forced an almost eight-month postponement of the trial of the three
A YOUNG former employee of Standard Bank Namibia who admitted she embezzled more than N$93 000 from the bank has been sentenced to an effective jail term of four years.
A GROUP of Keetmanshoop residents on Thursday took to the streets to protest against the murder of a fellow resident, Kilius Ngegsheya, who was battered to death last Monday evening.
PROPERTIES worth millions of naira were at the weekend destroyed by irate youths in Wushishi and Gurara local governments of Niger State following a crisis which sparked off after last week's state congresses by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
ILLEGAL electricity connections are one of the major reasons for shack fires, and now the Swakopmund Municipality and Erongo RED are going to team up to address the danger.
Three armed men last Friday night in Ilorin, shot an Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs, Mr Oba Amasa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Amasa was attacked by the armed-men at his family compound in Adabata area of Ilorin.
FARM strangler Hendrik Swarts, who last week admitted that he murdered a 65-year-old woman during a robbery on a farm in the Gobabis district, has a 40-year jail term ahead of him after his sentencing in the High Court in
SOUTHERN Speakers' Conference rose from a meeting held weekend in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital and condemned the criminal activities of militants from the oil-rich Niger-Delta region.
A D500,000 fraud case involving one Prince Victor, a Nigerian national (accused) and one Babucarr Bah, the complainant, recently continued at the Kanifing magistrates Court presided over by senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbacke.
The one and only rehabilitation centre for drug and alcohol abuse in Guinea Bissau is in a mangrove swamp some 30 km outside the capital. Run by an evangelical priest it has extremely basic facilities. IRIN spoke to some of
District #3 lawmaker, Dr. Kerterkumeh Murray was yesterday engaged in an allege fistfight with an unidentified young man at the jammed pack Monrovia City Hall.
A statement of account, demand notes, speeding tickets and documents relating to the purchase of a Peugeot 607 vehicle were on Thursday admitted in evidence by the court in the trial of William Joof, Gambia's ex-ambassador to France.
No fewer than 133 students of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa in Nasarawa State, have been expelled for certificate falsification and examination malpractice. The Rector of the Polytechnic, Mr Pius Salami made these known last Saturday in Nasarawa, at the matriculation
An official of the Directorate of Road Traffic Services was on Thursday abducted by two commercial bus drivers who took him to Field Base at Suleja, Niger State.
The circumstances under which a document covering a collateral property presented for a bank loan, allegedly got missing at UNIBANK Ghana Limited, would soon be a subject matter to be dealt with by a Fast Track High Court (FTC) in
Lawyers representing the accused in the case of the death of the late Meideh Angel Togbah, say they are taken aback by statements emanating from the Minister of Justice that they have failed to bring in a DNA expert to
