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Nigeria to forfeit former Minister’s assets

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has published a list of items belonging to former Oil Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke which will be seized following a Lagos High Court order earlier this month. Legalbrief reports that Alison-Madueke ran the Petroleum ...

Major probe into diplomatic leak

Police in the UK have opened a criminal investigation into the leaked diplomatic cables that led to the resignation of Kim Darroch, the country's ambassador to the US. There is a ‘clear public interest in bringing the person or people ...

Courts move to provide digital justice

Aided by state-of-the art technology, judiciaries around the world are making a concerted effort to make courtrooms more accessible to the public. Case-in-point: the first online courtroom hearings for claimants, in which they and their lawyers will participate via video ...

iPhone explodes

* An 11-year-old girl has claimed that an iPhone exploded in her hands. Kayla Ramos was playing on her iPhone 6 in her sister's bedroom in Bakersfield, California, when she noticed sparks coming off the device. She received a minor ...

Stringfellow in court

* Financial adviser Thomas Stringfellow has appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Johannesburg where he was formally charged with fraud. His lawyer, Johan Eksteen, of BDK Attorneys, confirmed that a formal bail application was brought and Stringfellow was ...

Pension fund custodian blindsided by AYO deal

Abel Sithole, the principal executive officer of the Government Employees Pension Fund, said the Public Investment Corporation didn’t involve or inform it when it made an investment in AYO Technology Solutions in December 2017. The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), ...

Top football administrator faces graft probe

Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Ahmad Ahmad is coming under growing pressure as Fifa investigates graft allegations against him. A BBC investigation reveals that Ahmad received two sets of expenses, claiming to be in two different countries, for the ...

Africa's unstable Internet access

Abel Wabella is no stranger to the dangers of pursuing digital activism in Ethiopia. In 2014, he was charged under a controversial anti-terrorism law, which has been described as providing the state with ‘unnecessarily far-reaching powers’ by Amnesty International. Wabella ...