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…
Breaking: Malawi’s Ex-President Mutharika Races To Court Over…
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…
Senegal: Three Fathers Jailed For Forcing Sons To…
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…
NEWS: Court sentences Two Setenced To Death For…
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…
South Africa: I’ve Been Racially Abused By Police…
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…
NEWS: Court set date for Zimbabwean Author Tsitsi…
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.…
Ethiopia court remands Jawar, Eskinder; Abiy vows justice…
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…
Nigeria: Court Adjourns Ize-Iyamu, Others’ Alleged N700m Fraud…
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…
NEWS: Forbes listed Nigerian pleads guilty to $11m…
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…
Politics: Burundi cabinet wants court to declare presidency…
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…
Ivorian Defense Minister to sue over ‘cocaine trafficker’…
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…
Ugandan court orders MPs to refund coronavirus cash
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…
Ivory Coast withdraws from African Human Rights and…
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…
Malawi court halts govt coronavirus lockdown plans
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…
COVID-19: Nigeria court orders compulsory quarantine for 34…
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…
Trader in Court over forgery
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…
Politics: South Africa president did not mislead Parliament…
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…
Caught a married woman with my husband –…
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…
Local court suspends Malaga club’s Qatari president
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,…
