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Several African countries continue to persecute people in the LGBT community and Zimbabwe is not among them. The five most dangerous countries to be gay in Africa are Uganda, Nigeria, Egypt, Tanzania and Sudan. Uganda’s government outlaws male and female homosexual activity, which can be punished with heavy fines and prison sentences. Article 145 of the Penal Code Act of 1950 states that “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” is a criminal offence. This, while vague, has been appl...

Daily Monitor Wednesday February 03 2021 Summary On the night of November 2, 2017, unknown assailants allegedly broke into the house of a one Kamugisha, a resident of Mpangati Village in Zirobwe Sub-county, where they are said to have made off with a motorcycle and unspecified amount of dry coffee beans, some of which was reportedly traced to Ssentamu’s home. Advertisement Two members of a criminal gang that has been terrorising residents in Zirobwe Sub-county, Luweero District, have been sen...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 31 2021 President Museveni (with hat) hands over jet washers to Mulago car washers in Kampala after the 2016 general election. PHOTOS | FILE Summary Though Section 167 of the Penal Code Act, which criminalises wandering persons, has never been repealed either by a court of law or by Parliament, Mr Museveni thought such decrees of his would please the urban youth and vote for him.   Advertisement President Museveni had just secured his victory in 2016, but as usual,...

Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on allegation of offences bordering on fraud. Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, for allegedly forging an O’ Level certificate, was also charged alongside his Special Adviser on Protocol, Aliyu Ibrahim and the Managing Director of ABR Global Petroleum Resources Limited, Daniel Omughele, for allegatio...

Share The former Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on allegation of offences bordering on fraud. He was arraigned before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, for allegedly forging an O’ Level certificate. According to a statement authorized by...

Obono-Obla was arraigned before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Apo, Abuja, for allegedly forging an Ordinary Level certificate.

Share For the fourth consecutive time, the embattled chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, on Wednesday failed to show up before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for his trial on an alleged N738.6 million contract scam. Maina was arraigned before Justice Abubakar Kutigi, sitting at Gwagwalada, Abuja, on November 21, 2019, alongside his secretary, Ann Olachi, on a nine-count charge bordering on contact racketeering and stealing to the tune of ...

Daily Monitor Sunday January 17 2021 NUP candidate Robert Kyagulanyi (centre) is blocked by the army as he enters Kasese District in December 2020. Summary At the time of his emergence, analysts believed that NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi’s strength lay in the fact that he was relatively cleaner, at least politically, and unencumbered by the past. In a space of less than five years, he led demonstrations, came face to face with death on at least two occasions and was arrested o...

Punch Newspapers Sections Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory has ordered a Magistrate, Omolola Akindele, to immediately halt proceedings and stay action in a criminal complaint filed by one Kenechukwu Okeke, against 50 persons who supported the #EndSARS protests. Justice Bello Kawu also restrained the Nigeria Police Force from arresting or taking any action against the #EndSARS activists. The magistrate had ordered the Commissioner of Police in the FCT to laun...

#EndSARS: Abuja Court Orders Magistrate To Stop Case Against Pastor Adeyemi, Adeyanju, Davido, Others Okeke, however, said the defendants used Twitter, a microblogging social media platform, to instigate “some riotous and tumultuous persons” who caused mayhem in the country. by SaharaReporters, New York Jan 13, 2021 A High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered a magistrates’ court in the capital city to stop proceedings and stay action in a criminal suit filed by a lawyer against 50 persons,...