The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
Immediate past president of Malawi, Peter Mutharika is set to take Malawi’s anti-corruption body to court for allegedly freezing his assets and bank assets. In a December 2 letter to Standard bank, Mutharika’s legal advisors disclose to Standard bank that a limitation request put on the previous president’s very own record had terminated. Malawi’s Anti-Corruption […]
A court in Senegal has jailed three father’s for intertionally forcing and pushing their son to move to Europe, which as caused the death of one three sons. They were vindicated of the charge of abetting traveler dealing, the legal advisor said. The children were with different transients who boarded a kayak to make the […]
A court in Mali has sentenced two individual to death for their involvement in the 2015 terrorist attack in Bamako, Mali. Fawaz Ould Ahmed and his co-respondent Sadou Chaka were sentenced following two days of hearings. “The court sees you as blameworthy of the realities you are blamed for and doesn’t concede you any moderating […]
South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema addressed his supporters after acting in the Randburg Magistrates Court. On Tuesday, he and birthday party MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi face assault charges in opposition to a white police officer that date again to the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran Winnie Madikizela Mandela in 2018. […]
Required to appear in courtroom on Friday, award-winning and famend Zimbabwean author, Tsitsi Dangarembga — dealing with expenses for disturbing the peace and inciting violence following her arrest at anti-government Harare-based prohibited protests in June. The arrest took area days after her brand new novel, ‘This Mournable Body,’ was once protected in the long list […]
A federal high court on Thursday granted police additional 14 days to investigate Jawar Mohammed, an activist turned politician associated with opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC). Jawar was arrested, along with others, two weeks ago in connection with the unrest that took place in Addis Ababa and parts of Oromia region in the wake of […]
The trial of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and four others at the Federal High Court, Benin yesterday, suffered a setback as the court failed to sit but adjourned to July 7, for hearing. Other defendants in the suit include former Edo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chairman, […]
On Thursday (June 18), a celebrated Nigerian entrepreneur held in the US since August 2019 on charges of computer and wire fraud, changed his not guilty plea to guilty, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Obinwanne Okeke popularly referred to as ‘Invictus Obi’ made the plea in a Norfolk Magistrate Court Room […]
Burundi will seek constitutional interpretation on how to proceed over the power vacuum created by the death of president Pierre Nkurunziza on June 8. The First Vice-President, Gaston Sindimwo, today (June 11) chaired an extraordinary Council of Ministers – cabinet – meeting which agreed to refer the issue to the apex court. Cabinet wants the […]
Ivorian Defense minister Hamed Bakayoko has strongly denied allegations of being a drug trafficker. A Canadian website Vice has been publishing a series of articles suggesting that he was a “major cocaine trafficker.” But according to Bakayoko, the allegations by the website goes against his principles as well as tarnishes the image of Ivory Coast. […]
A Ugandan court on Wednesday ordered lawmakers to pay back money they had awarded themselves to combat coronavirus. Meanwhile, in Malawi, President Peter Mutharika announced Covid-19 cash packages for the poor to help them survive the pandemic over the next three-months. The high court in Uganda has ruled that MPs must pay back any money […]
Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Human Rights and Peoples Court, a week after the tribunal ordered the West African nation to suspend an arrest warrant against presidential hopeful Guillaume Soro, who on Tuesday was sentenced to 20 years in jail. The decision to pull out was taken at a weekly cabinet meeting, government spokesman […]
A High Court in Malawi has ordered government to restrain from implementing a lockdown aimed to help curb the spread of coronavirus in the southern African country. President Peter Mutharika imposed the 21-day measure earlier this week but the announcement was met by protests in parts of the country. With barely 24-hours for the measure […]
A Magistrate Court in Lagos has sentenced over 30 lockdown flouters to fourteen-day quarantine and a month community service. Lagos is currently under a lockdown imposed by the federal government to curb the spread of COVID-19. The group of 34 persons were arrested on Wednesday whiles participating in fitness exercise along a major expressway. The […]
According to the court documents, George Ngure Kariuki, 72, gave false information to an employee of the Kajiado North land registry. Kariuki pleaded not guilty before the Principal Magistrate Ms Ruguru Ngotho at Ngong Law Courts Kajiado County. According to a charge sheet and documents produced in court by the DCI Kajiado office, Kariuki and […]
A court in South Africa has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of allegations that he misled parliament about the funding of his campaign to become leader of the ruling African National Congress party. Ramaphosa had been accused by the country’s public watchdog of misleading lawmakers about a $34,000 contribution from the CEO of a local company, […]
A 44-year-old tailor, Rebecca Adeniyi on Wednesday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State that she caught her husband red-handed making love with a married woman. Rebecca said that her husband, Yusuf, built a mosque and started sleeping with his female members both single and married. She said: “I caught him having sexual intercourse […]
Qatari businessman Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani has been removed as president of Spanish club Malaga for six months on a series of charges including alleged illegal appropriation, a regional court said. The alleged charges, which also included conduct ‘causing unfair prejudice and improper management’, were brought by a group called The Association of Small […]