UNCC names acting tech-transfer chief
UNC Charlotte has named Ruth Burnett acting director of its Office of Technology Transfer. More »
Albany BID sends out new ballots in contested board vote
New ballots will be mailed in the next several days to conduct another vote in a contested election for five seats on the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District board of directors. More »
Ghana: GT Cable Thief in the Dock
A twenty-two-year-old suspect, Adu Kwasi, is in police grip at the Mamobi Police Station in connection with a recent GT aerial cable theft. More »
Kenya: I'm Being Sacrificed On Goldenberg, Says Saitoti
Former Education minister George Saitoti yesterday described himself as a sacrificial lamb for political expediency over the Goldenberg scandal. More »
Ghana: Police Officer Assaults Radio Journalist, Threatens Him With Death
On 2 June 2006, Hackman K. Afriyie, a reporter for ASTA FM, an independent radio station based in Techiman, a city in northern Ghana, was slapped and threatened with death by Police Constable Eric Gyamfi for his alleged criticisms of the police. More »
Kenya: Dutch Firm Moves to Bar KACC Probe
A company behind an attempt to seize the property of Kenya's embassy in The Hague in connection with a Sh4 billion security contract has filed another suit at the Nairobi High Court. More »
Kenya: Winnie's Firm Forged Bank Documents, Inquiry Told
A company co-owned by Ms Winnie Wangui and the deported Armenian brothers was yesterday linked to a string of forgeries committed at its formative stages. More »
PanAfrica: World Bank President Sees A Continent on the Move
World Bank President and former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz addressing delegates yesterday, at the seventh Sullivan Summit of African and African American leaders, said he has made Africa his number one priority since taking office in 2005. More »
Gambia: Missing Journalist Reportedly Arrested By National Intelligence Agency; Newspaper Censored
On 11 July 2006, Chief Ebrima B. Manneh, a reporter for the pro-government newspaper "Daily Observer", was arrested and detained by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) of The Gambia. More »
Foschio to retires as U.S. magistrate judge
U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie Foschio has announced plans to retire Jan. 31, 2007 before serving as a recalled magistrate judge. More »
Zimbabwe: Holding On to Ill-Gotten Gains
The intention of the West to effect regime change in Zimbabwe was given further impetus by its desire to hold on to ill-gotten gains from the colonial era. During this period, not only did the evil forces inflict the most barbaric form of cruelty and brutality against us, they also stole from us, most notably our land. And not just any land, but the most fertile, from which Afrikans were forcibly removed to be crowded in lands with marginal soils. Depriving people who depend solely on subsistence farming of their land demonstrated the level of depravity of these evil forces, a depravity that still exists today. More »
Nigeria: EFCC - a New Gestapo?
Much as we try to avoid moving with the herd or joining the madding crowd here in the Daily Trust, we find it very difficult to disagree with the faction of the Peoples Democratic Party which posited the frightening possibility recently of our federal government turning Nigeria into a police state through the instrumentality of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). More »
Nigeria: 2007 - EFCC Will Nail Thieving Politicians - Ribadu
The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu has confessed that the battle against corrupt politicians has been the most daunting for his commission but vowed to keep them out of business by 2007. More »
Liberia: Corruption Rope Tightens on Former Transitional Government Chairman
It is becoming apparent that the former Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Charles Gyude Bryant, and some of his ex-officials may have to fight an uphill legal battle, if possibly taken to court, to exonerate themselves from volumes of carefully documented allegations of widespread financial malpractice. More »
Kenya: I Did My Part On Muite Motion - Speaker
House Speaker Francis Kaparo says he has done what was required of him on a Motion seeking to open up to the public, a joint parliamentary probe team investigating the Arturs' saga. More »
Kenya: Reject Saitoti's Plea On Goldenberg, Court Told
The Attorney General has defended findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Goldenberg affair, touching on former Cabinet minister, Prof George Saitoti. More »
Kenya: CID Did Not Give Arturs' Report to Interpol
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) did not give Interpol a report on investigations into the Artur brothers, it was revealed on Wednesday. More »
ACR Endorses RUAA
The Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) recently announced its endorsement of the 2000 Revised Uniform Arbitration Act (RUAA). ACR Vice-President and Chair of the RUAA subcommittee Richard D. Fincher recently stated in a June news release about the endorsement, ð More »
ADR Preference and Usage Survey Published
Results of a new survey of attorneysðÐADR Preference and Usage have just been published online at the American Bar Association General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division Website. In late 2005, the GPSolo Division and the National Arbitration Forum collaborated on a survey designed to discover membersðÐneeds and preferences regarding negotiation, mediation, and other forms of alternative More »
Rincon Mounts, P.C. Joins NAMWOLF as New Law Firm Member
Rincon Mounts, P.C., a minority-owned law firm based in El Paso, has recently been admitted for membership to The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF). (PRWEB Jul 16, 2006) More »
Do We Need Protection from the Police?
We depend on the state and local law enforcement to protect us from criminals in our society. But what happens when a small child and grandmother need protection from the authorities who are charged with protecting them? (PRWEB Jul 16, 2006) More »
Family Courts Fail Young Victims of Abuse Fit Parents Are Losing Custody to Abusive Ones in Flawed Systems
In the July issue of LadybugFlights online magazine, Karen Anderson recounts the details of many attempts of mothers to protect their children from abusive fathers. The shocking fact is that courts are heavily weighted in favor of fathers, at the expense of mothers and their children. In case after case, she shows how the rights of loving mothers were ignored while custody was turned over to the fathers, in spite of compelling evidence that the father abused the child. (PRWEB Jul 16, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/U2luZy1TaW5nLUxvdmUtU3F1YS1JbnNlLVplcm8= More »
Diane Fleming Habeas Corpus Petition Denied Despite Withholding Of Evidence; Appeal Filed June 30, 2006
Diane Fleming was convicted of 1st degree murder for allegedly 'spiking' her husband's Gatorade with methanol. The bottles remain in evidence, but are unavailable, although an NFT1 test or Raman Microscope test can prove precisely where the methanol originated. (PRWEB Jul 16, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/UGlnZy1Mb3ZlLUNyYXMtUGlnZy1JbnNlLVplcm8= More »
Ixio Announces Successful Deployment of WORLDOX Integration with their On-Demand Document Drafting Tool, QShift
Using only an Internet browser and QShift, the revolutionary web based document drafting tool, attorneys can now save documents directly into the WORLDOX document management system. (PRWEB Jul 16, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/dingpr.php/U3F1YS1Qcm9mLVRoaXItU3F1YS1JbnNlLVplcm8= More »
Chris Montgomery Joins caseSHARE as Vice President of Professional Services
To keep up with explosive national growth, caseSHARE adds a senior sales and litigation support specialist to its national professional services team. (PRWEB Jul 16, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/dingpr.php/U3F1YS1DcmFzLVRoaXItU3F1YS1JbnNlLVplcm8= More »