Three men caught transporting a stolen railway track worth R3 million have been arrested. Mpumalanga police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said the provincial Anti-Gang Unit and Middleburg highway patrol stopped a suspicious truck on the N4 in Middleburg and arrested three men, aged between 41 and 51, for possession of stolen goods. Mohlala added the…
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 24-year-old student, Nduka Kalu, who allegedly lured a teenager to a hotel and defiled her. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, did not take the defendant’s plea. She said that she needed advice of the state’s director of public prosecutions. Osunsanmi ordered that Kalu should be kept at…
A South African woman reportedly ends her own life after her husband discovered her marital infidelity and incestuous relationship. The heart-wrenching story was brought to public attention by Solomzi Thandubuntu, a South African social media user who shared the shocking details on the microblogging platform “X,” formerly known as Twitter. Thandubuntu’s post unveiled the devastating consequences of a…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Monday sentenced a former Pakistani cricketer to 12 years in prison over allegations that he incited people to kill firebrand anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders. Khalid Latif, 37, stood accused of offering a bounty of some 21,000 euros ($23,000) to anybody who killed Wilders. Latif did not…
The Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja will today (Wednesday) deliver its much-anticipated, high-stake judgement on three petitions challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu. Mr Tinubu’s win as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 25 February has been eclipsed by the opposition’s allegations of fraud in the process that was eagerly…
Money lender Matthew Jack is seeking a share of Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen’s R21 million in real estate, alleging that he lent Booysen R13.5 million for the procurement of a significant quantity of KN95 protective face masks from China in August 2020. The properties in question form part of the property portfolio owned by the alleged…
N10 million bribery allegation that hit the National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano, the Kano State Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA has called on the Tribunal to unmask and reveal identity of lawyers involved in the act. It was gathered that the Presiding judge of the Tribunal,…
Godwin Emefiele, The Federal Government has applied to withdraw the illegal possession of firearms charge it filed against suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele , at the Federal High Court in Lagos. The judge had on July 25, admitted Emefiele to a N20million bail on a two-count charge of illegal possession of…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives ( N’Assembly ), Mr Tajudeen Abbas over “the unlawful plan to spend N40bn on 465 exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials, and N70bn as ‘palliatives’ for new members.” The…
