Legal

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A United States national has bagged life imprisonment following his conviction in connection with sexually abusing two teenage girls while working at the US embassy in Burkina Faso. Fode Sitafa Mara, 41, from...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna A court in Tunisia on Thursday rejected demands to suspend operations at a fertiliser factory in Gabes, ruling that there was "no sufficient proof of harm" in the facility despite years of protests...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Police in Kenya have arrested a man fingered in a recruitment scam, in which Kenyan citizens are promised skilled work in Russia, only for them to end up at training camps, in preparation...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Police in Uganda have taken into custody two women, believed to be in their 20s, after neighbours lodged an official complain that they saw the duo kissing outside, an act criminalised under the...

By Emmanuel Obisue A United States court has sentenced former Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) executive, Paulinus Okoronkwo, to seven years and three months in prison for receiving a $2.1 million bribe linked to oil drilling...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna Over 600 Kenyan nationals who were lured to Cambodia with a promise of high-paying jobs but ended up being kept against their will in a trafficking scheme are seeking court orders to compel...