PRETORIA High Court Judge Nkola Motata was strongly reprimanded by a visibly angry magistrate Desmond Nair yesterday, who told Motata that his behaviour was bordering on contempt of court.

The number of attempted murders in the Western Cape has shot up by more than 50 percent in the past seven years, despite claims from senior police officials that all contact crime is on the decline.

A twenty-two-year-old man identified as Prince Borkay of Camp Johnson Road has allegedly raped an eight-year old child.

The Minister of State Property and Land Tenure, Pascal Anong Adibime, has called on the forces of law and order to impound State vehicles that government officials are abusing.

Acting chief justice yesterday administered the oath of office to 37 commissioners of oath.

Assistant inspector general of police in charge of operations yesterday told journalists in Freetown that over 800 police officers have been reinforced across the country to curb the eruption of any violence.

People of Koluoma 1, a community in Southern Ijaw Local Government area of Bayelsa State, have re-affirmed their commitment to the Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMoU) signed with American oil giant, Chevron Nigeria Limited.

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed concerned over the slow pace of proceedings in some electoral petitions cases.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, has stated Federal Gover-nment's commitment to improving tax collection in the country, saying this can culminate in the dividends of democracy getting to all Nigerians, even those living in villages.

Respite has come the way of the coordinator of the Police Equipment Foundation, [PEF], Kenny Martins, his Deputy Ibrahim Dumuje and Yarro Gella .

It hardly made a blip on the national radar screen.

THE South African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) says it has no choice but to take the National Credit Regulator (NCR) to court, because advance payments in royalty fees outlawed under the National Credit Act are the only regular income for

A Circuit Court, presided over by His Honour, Mr. Eric Baah, has upheld that Odeneho Kwasi Peprah II was the duly gazetted chief of Ayanfuri.

AN ACCRA Fast Track High Court (FTC) determining the ownership status of "Kasapa Telecom" between the Ghanaian corporate entity, Kludjeson International Limited (KIL) and its overseas business counterparts, Hutchison Telecommunications Limited and Certwell Limited, has opened the floodgate for evidence

THE government's counsel at the Ginwala inquiry yesterday attempted to pierce through Vusi Pikoli's argument that he was suspended to stop the prosecution of police commissioner Jackie Selebi, by arguing that Selebi's prosecution was, in fact, going ahead.

Much to the surprise of even members of his party, Hon. Dan Abodakpi, the ex-Minister of Trade and Industry, has called for an amendment of the controversial law of Willfully Causing Financial Loss to the State, the very law that

The Senate Committee on Aviation, probing the disbursement and application of the N19.5 billion Aviation Intervention Fund, said yesterday that it would get to the roots of the Bilateral Aviation Services Agreement (BASA) Account.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Aliyu Moddibo Umar, has said the non-remittance of the personal income tax of workers in the territory by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) may have a negative impact on its

Nigerians hoping to watch the popular Big Brother Africa programme may have to forget it as the House of Representatives yesterday reiterated its earlier call for the banning of the broadcast of the programme by Multi Choice in Nigeria due

The Ministry of Justice announces that it was constrained to secure from the Monrovia City Court a warrant of arrest for Mr. Roosevelt Quiah for the commission of the crime of forgery committed by him while he was on the