Crime - Page 7
Robber attacks Mugabe aides, Escapes in their vehicle…
President Robert Mugabe's security aides were last night robbed at gun point by a daring armed robber who got away with their vehicle and...
Nigeria: Surprising number of rebels seek rehabilitation
A criminal rehabilitation project set up by Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers state in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has began to...
US Navy in Ghana: Not a question of oil for security !
An American ship has docked in Ghana with over 500 naval officers and civilians leading to allegations that the US government was making overtures...
Kenyan activists’ assassinations, a possible police complicity?
Renowned Human Rights activist and director of the Oscar Foundation, Oscar Kamau Kingara, who fearlessly spoke against the Kenyan government accusing the system...
Somali pirates spreading wealth in an unusual manner
After the ransom for the Sirius Star, the highest-profile victim of Somali piracy, was delivered in January, an impromptu beach party started near Hobyu,...
Nigeria: Rebels deprived of booty destroy Shell pipeline
Oil pipeline operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has been blown up by rebels in the Niger Delta. This incident is said...
Guinea’s junta brings corrupt “cocaine” officials to book
A crackdown on cocaine smuggling by Guinea’s military junta has netted the son of the former president and a string of senior police officers,...
Nigeria: Notorious rebel leader shot but escapes capture
The hide-out of the Niger Delta's most notorious militant group headed by Woki Godswill Ibralayu has been raided by the Nigerian Army in what...
Stopping Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Guinea
Persistent and high-profile acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia prompted no fewer than four meetings of the UN Security Council in the...
Russians escape but booming abduction business continues
Following the escape of two Russian hostages, reportedly abducted by gunmen in the middle of the night at Ikot Abasi of the restive Niger...
Loxion management: hidden source of S. African crime?
In the run-up to South Africa's general elections in April, job creation has become a hot political topic in a country where analysts have...
Oil companies halt operations amid bloody threats
Despite the Rivers State governor's incessant pleas to rethink their decision, Oil companies have deciced to leave due to heightened insecurity and a threat...
Manufacturers of killer drug finally arrested in Nigeria
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control in Nigeria has arrested 12 staff members of the Pharmaceutical company that manufactured the...
Rebels to face ‘unemployment’ amid oil industry threats
As oil companies dare to abandon the Niger Delta region, River sate governor Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has vowed to use the Death Sentence as...
Gov’t urges locals not to panick over rebel kidnappings
Niger Delta rebels, who kidnapped the wife of Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum, Edmund Daukoru, last week in Port Harcourt, have continued to ignore...
US fugitive convict appointed by Nigerian President…
Reports emanating from Abuja, Nigeria claim that Mr. Emmanuel Olutokunbo Enaboifo who was convicted by a US court, for attempting to defraud the Philadelphia...
Boy whose sister was shot during kidnapping released
Emmanuel Awonusi, the nine-year old boy who was kidnapped after his sister was shot by Niger Delta militants is reported to have been released...
Pirates leave arms ship but destination is still unknown
One of the longest-running and highest-profile hijackings by Somali pirates appeared to be drawing to a close on Thursday as the hijackers began to...
The unpardonable murder of a hapless child by Millitants
As the son and daughter of a Royal Dutch Shell staff in the city of Port Harcourt, one of Nigeria's oil-producing cities, walked to...
Japan’s unprecedented move to fight Somali pirates
Japan has ordered its navy to prepare for a mission to guard against pirates off the coast of Somalia and plans to draw up...
Abductors of Canadian diplomats still unknown
The missing UN special envoy to Niger Mr. Robert Fowler is still no-where-to-be-found. According to reports, the United Nations head office has rallied aid...
China moves to stave off Somali pirates
In an unparalleled move, China, the only permanent member of the UN Security Council yet to involve itself militarily in the pirate crisis in...
Arabic speaking Sudanese cleanse villages, subject victims to slavery
A coalition of African charities have confirmed that children and adults are subject to slavery in Sudan's Darfur region.
It is reported that the Sudanese...
A new US proposed strategy to fight Somali pirates
The United states of America is asking for an authorisation from the United Nations Security Council resolution to assemble a mission to Somalia to...
Ethiopian troops in Somalia : Friend or Foe ?
Ethiopian troops, preparing to pull out of the war-ruined Somalia, have once again been accused of committing war crimes, looting of civilian property and...
Europe to suffer from shut down of Nigerian gas facility
Nigeria's major gas facility belonging to Anglo Dutch giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has been shut down. Shell Petroleum also shut down its...
Guinea Bissau’s affair with Coup d’etats and Cocaine
Last Sunday when millions of people on the African continent found themselves in various churches worshipping, a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau were...
Military Major and cohorts get life for rebel arms sale
Reports emanating from Kaduna in Northern Nigeria claim that the five soldiers charged with trading weapons to the rebel oil militia of Niger Delta...
Tanker carrying 2m barrels of oil hijacked by Somali pirates
Pirates on Monday took control of a huge Saudi Arabian crude oil tanker in the Arabian Sea, the US Navy said in a statement,...
A murky weekend in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
19 people were killed this weekend in the Niger Delta when pipelines exploded in the first incidence followed by a violent rebel attack on...