Uganda: Fufa’s Watson, Kyeyago Get Court Summons On Embezzlement Charges

-Monitor
Two Fufa officials have been summoned by the Buganda Road Court to answer charges of embezzlement and causing financial loss to the tune of over Shs972m.
According to the summons dated Novemeber 4, 2009 and seen by Daily Monitor, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Edgar Watson and Fufa vice president finance Jowali Kyeyago are wanted in court [...]

Western Sahara: PAP Adopts Motion On Release of Prisoners

THISDAY
Midrand — A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were “abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps.”
The motion also stated that in [...]

Nigeria: N5 Billion Scam – EFCC Launches Fresh Investigation Against Neco Registrar

-Leadership
Abuja — It is not yet over for the Registrar of the National Examination Council, (NECO),Prof Promise Okpala,as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a fresh investigation to ascertain his involvement in an alleged N5billion scam against him. A reliable source in the commission told journalists yesterday that the chairman of the [...]

Nigeria: Sokoto – Furore Over Panel’s Report

Sokoto — The commission of inquiry set up by the Sokoto State government to probe the immediate past government of Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has recommended that the former governor and some of his officials refund the sum of N2.9b to the state. “Let’s meet in court,” the indicted persons replied. But what are the people [...]

Nigeria: Post-Amnesty – Yar’Adua Proposes N352.3 Billion Budget

-THISDAY
Abuja — President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday sought the endorsement of the National Assembly for a N352.2 billion supplementary appropriation to enable the Federal Government address emerging challenges of the post-amnesty period in the Niger Delta region.

The supplementary budget was received in the House of Representatives on a day the chamber adopted two motions urging [...]

Nigeria: No Going Back On Deregulation – Yar’Adua

 -VANGUARD
Abuja — PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has said that the deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry is inevitable, but that government is still holding consultations with stakeholders on the necessity of the action.
Speaking with Baroness Glenys Kinnock, Britain’s Minister of State for Africa, at the State House, yesterday, President Yar’Adua said: “We are [...]

Nigeria: Vaswani Brothers – EFCC Will Appeal Verdict, Says Waziri

-THISDAY
Abuja — Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has said the commission will appeal the verdict of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday, which declared Federal Government’s action in the deportation of the Vaswani brothers (Sunil, Haresh and Mahesh) as illegal.
Waziri, while fielding questions from journalists in [...]

Uganda: Vital Lessons From Ssebanga Tragedy

-THE MONITOR
editorial
Enock Ssebanga, 21, on Wednesday lost the battle to leukaemia. The picture of his scraggy body published by this newspaper on August 7, 2000 shocked the world about the boundless nastiness of some parents. Then 12, Ssebanga was accused by the step-mother, Regina Nabakoza of being a thief. His father, Charles Kayongo, capitulated to [...]

Nigeria: Pa Soludo – Police Arrest Suspects

-THISDAY
Onitsha. — Anambra state Police Command yesterday said some people had been arrested in connection with the kidnap of Pa Simeon Soludo, the 78-year-old father of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 6, 2010 governorship elections in Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, who was released Wednesday night by those who abducted him [...]

Nigeria: How Pa Soludo Reunited With Family

-THISDAY
Onitsha Awka and Enugu — He was kidnapped on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 by a five-man gang of gunmen who seized him from his dinner table at his Isuofia residence in Aguata Local Government Area of the state.
Seventy-eight-year-old Pa Simeon Soludo, father of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 6, 2010 governorship [...]

Nigeria: Anambra PDP Elders Caution Ojukwu on Threat of War

THIS DAY
Onitsha — Elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State have cautioned the presidential candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2007 election, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, for threatening to drag Igbos to another civil war should the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu grant the appeal filed by the [...]

Nigeria: Omisore’s Late Sack Boosts Calls For Electoral Reform

THISDAY
Lagos — In yet another round of dire combustion, the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, last week nullified the election of Senator Iyiola Omisore. Omisore, who until his sack, was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, represented Osun East senatorial district at the National Assembly.

Unlike the previous cases of election [...]

Nigeria: Atuche, Ojo Granted 450 Billion Loan Without Collateral, EFCC Tells Court

Daily trust
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday told a Federal High Court, Lagos that former managing director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche and one of his executive directors, Charles Ojo, granted a credit facility of N450billion without any collateral. EFCC made the allegation at the resumed hearing of their bail application.
Counsel to the [...]

Ghana: NDC is Trying to Crucify Me – Osei Akoto

Ghana chronicle
Kumasi — The former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, has stated unequivocally that he is the major target in the NDC government’s ‘Search and Prosecute’ operations. According to him, he is fully aware of the desperate attempts by the Atta Mills government to look for incriminating evidence in order [...]

Nigeria: Warner to Abuja Fans – You’re Shameful, Unpatriotic

DAILY TRUST
Abuja — FIFA Vice President Jack Warner yesterday revealed that the football ruling body is not happy with the poor attendance of the local fans at the FIFA U-17 World Cup venues, as well as the attitude of Nigerian fans during Nigeria’s first match against Germany.
According to statistics released by FIFA, only 471,934 watched [...]

Nigeria: PDP Leader Dies in CP’s Office

Daily trust
Katsina — Confusion enveloped the political class in President Umaru Yar’adua’s home state of Katsina yesterday when a prominent member of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Tasiu Mashi, popularly known as Tasi Elder, collapsed and died during what was said to be a reconciliatory meeting in the state Police Commissioner’s office.
Tasi Elder [...]

Nigeria: Pa Soludo – Police Quiz Uba, 23 Guber Aspirants

-THISDAY
Abuja/Awka — The self-styled godfather of Anambra State politics, Chief Chris Uba, and 23 gubernatorial aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state were yesterday quizzed by the police over the kidnap of Pa Simeon Soludo.
Also, the five-man armed gang, which abducted Pa Soludo, the father of the PDP candidate in the February [...]

Nigeria: Ribadu Lodged U.S.$15 Million Ibori’s Bribe With CBN – Waziri

Source,Leadership(Abuja)
Kaduna — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally broken its silence on allegations by its former boss, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, that he lodged $15million bribe money from former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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The EFCC’s boss, Mrs Farida Waziri, stated this in Washington, while on [...]

This Day Nigeria: Bode George’s Leeway to Golgotha – Who’s Next? [analysis]

Source ,Thisday
Lagos — In a marked departure from the norm, former military governor of the old Ondo State and former Deputy National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the de facto leader of the PDP in Lagos State, Commodore Olabode George (rtd.), was sentenced to two years imprisonment last Monday. [...]

Nigeria: ICPC Shielding Arab, Others From Prosecution

-Leadership(Abuja)
Abuja — The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is alleged to be shielding the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Nasir Arab and four officials from investigation over allegations of corrupt practices
A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Femi Johnson, had on January 29, 2009, petitioned the ICPC over alleged sharp practices against Arab [...]

Liberia: Ellen Shocked Over Murder of PPCC Chief -Two Suspects Arrested

Source,The Informer (Monrovia)
President Ellen Johnson has expressed deep “shocked and distressed” over the vicious murder of Keith K. Jubah, Chairman of the Public Procurement Concession Commission (PPCC) who was shot to death Sunday.
The PPCC chief was reportedly shot dead and his remains burnt, with nothing reportedly taken from him-not even his wallet and two phones, [...]

Ghana: NPP MP in GH¢400 Million Contract Brawl

Source ,the chronicle
Kumasi — The Minority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Suame, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has been indicted by an audit report of the Audit Service released in March this year.
The MP is alleged to have awarded a contract without the approval of the Assembly (Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly) Tender Committee
The [...]

Uganda: MPs Must Account for Development Fund

Kampala — LEADERS attending a parliamentary seminar on the role of MPs last week, called for the abolition of the annual constituency development fund (CDF) given to MPs.
It was argued that the sh10m was too little to create an impact in a constituency and distracts MPs from their cardinal role of legislation.
Among the seven roles [...]

Nigeria: Tasi Elder Was Poisoned – Family

Source; Leadership
Katsina — The family of a top politician in Katsina State, Alhaji Tasi Elder, who died suddenly on Monday, have insisted that their breadwinner was poisoned inside the state police commissioner’s office.
The family also dismissed claims by the commissioner that Elder died at the Federal Medical Centre, Katsina.
The spokesperson of the family, Malam Musa [...]

Namibia: Businessman Killed in Robbery

THE owner of HAMS Security, Andries (‘Dries’) de Jager, was shot dead during an attempted robbery in Windhoek’s Northern Industrial Area yesterday.
According to the Police, the incident took place at around 12h40.
They said De Jager was walking to his shop with one of his security guards when two suspects approached them.
An eyewitness told The Namibian [...]

Ibori – Delta Elders Take Protest to CBN Governor

SOURCE   LEADERSHIP
Abuja — Against the alarm being raised that the Federal Government is trying to thwart the course of law in the corruption charges leveled against former Delta State governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, members of the Delta State Elders, Leaders and Stakeholders Forum yesterday staged a protest march to the office of the Central [...]

Gunmen Kidnap Senator’s Wife in Benin

Benin — Unknown gunmen yesterday abducted the wife of Senator Francis Okpozo, Anna, in Benin, Edo state capital. Mrs. Okpozo, a pastor with Christ Embassy Church at the Erediauwa branch, off Ekehuan Road was reportedly kidnapped at about 9 a.m Monday from her house, No. 10, Abu Street, shortly after a prayer session with her [...]

eBay Rejects Auction To Benefit Man Who Murdered Abortion Provider

By Logan Murphy
As David Neiwert posted yesterday, a group of violent anti-abortion zealots planned to hold an online auction on eBay to help pay legal expenses for Scott Roeder, the man who murdered abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller at his Kansas church. Thankfully, eBay has stepped up to do the right thing and is blocking [...]