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May
20
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Court strips NNPC steering committee insider of private jet bought with Chinese contract bribes

Court strips NNPC steering committee insider of private jet bought with Chinese contract bribes

NEWS
A Nigerian court has permanently stripped a Borno State government appointee of a luxury private jet he allegedly purchased using bribe money extracted from a Chinese construction giant awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in federal oil contracts - money that was laundered through a currency dealer who later claimed he knew nothing about the transaction. Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Monday granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission a final forfeiture order against a Hawker 125 private jet, model 800XP, registration number 5N-AMK, ruling that its owner had failed to demonstrate that…
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May
20
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
The man who kept Mandela’s voice in a wardrobe box

The man who kept Mandela’s voice in a wardrobe box

NEWS
FOR nearly two decades, Adrian Hadland carried a secret in his wardrobe. Not a dark secret - but one luminous with history, humming with the voices of giants. Stuffed inside a battered cardboard box were newspaper cuttings, columns, notebooks, and sheaves of paper: the raw, unedited record of one of the most extraordinary periods in human history. It was the birth of a new South Africa, and Hadland had been there - pen in hand, eyes wide open - for every astonishing moment. Now, ahead of Mandela Day on 18 July 2026, Hadland has finally opened that box. The result…
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May
19
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Ghana’s sovereignty on trial: The Schiphol trap and the battle for MP Frimpong

Ghana’s sovereignty on trial: The Schiphol trap and the battle for MP Frimpong

NEWS
ON the morning of Sunday, 10 May 2026, a Ghanaian Member of Parliament stepped off a KLM flight at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, passport in hand, family in mind - his wife and children waiting for him in London. He never completed the walk-through immigration. Before the day was done, Kwame Ohene Frimpong, the independent legislator for Asante Akyem North and one of Ghana's most watched political figures, was in Dutch custody, detained on the basis of a US warrant that his own parliament had not seen, could not read, and to this day has not received in authenticated form. What…
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May
19
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Dangote’s multibillion dollar East Africa refinery dream gathers momentum — and powerful enemies

Dangote’s multibillion dollar East Africa refinery dream gathers momentum — and powerful enemies

NEWS
THE man who broke the back of Africa's most humiliating energy dependency - importing refined petroleum from the very crude Africa exports raw - is now turning his transformative vision eastward. And the continent is watching with barely contained excitement. Aliko Dangote, the African Energy Chamber's African Energy Person of the Year 2026, has been crisscrossing East Africa with a proposition that is as audacious as the $19 billion Lagos refinery he built with his own resources when the world's multilateral financial institutions made it structurally impossible for African governments to do so themselves. He is proposing to build an…
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May
19
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
‘For God and My Country’: Among breaks her silence – but the cash speaks louder

‘For God and My Country’: Among breaks her silence – but the cash speaks louder

NEWS
SHE closed with the words 'For God and My Country' - the Ugandan national motto, invoked by politicians in moments of deepest patriotic theatre. But for Anita Annet Among, the former Speaker of Uganda's Parliament, the statement represented something far less noble and far more consequential: a full, formal, and irreversible submission. It was Among's first public communications since a joint security task force led by the Criminal Investigations Directorate, backed by the Uganda People's Defence Forces and other agencies, tore through her palatial Nakasero residence and others in different locations, in a corruption probe into alleged illicit enrichment and…
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May
18
2026
By The African Mirror
Three foreign nationals walk free after diamond bust — sentences amount to time served

Three foreign nationals walk free after diamond bust — sentences amount to time served

NEWS
THREE foreign nationals convicted of illegal diamond dealing and related offences in the Northern Cape walked out of the Upington Regional Court as free men last week, with the sentences handed down on 14 May effectively amounting to time already served — a consequence of the more than three years two of the accused spent in custody while awaiting trial. Victor Tapiwa (45) and Sipho Dube (46), both Zimbabwean nationals, along with Roy Owen Chauke (43), a Mozambican national with dual citizenship, were convicted following a trial that arose from an intelligence-driven police roadblock in February 2023. All custodial sentences…
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May
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
RWANDA: Death of a genocide financier buries justice with him

RWANDA: Death of a genocide financier buries justice with him

NEWS
FÉLICIEN Kabuga is dead. He was 93. He died in a Dutch hospital on Saturday while in the custody of the United Nations, still technically on trial, still technically innocent - because the law never got to say otherwise. For the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, that silence is a wound that will not close. The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the UN body overseeing the final chapter of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), confirmed Kabuga's death on Saturday. It was a statement stripped of ceremony. A man accused of financing…
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May
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
US, Nigeria kill ISIS global no. 2 in Lake Chad strike – a commander behind decades of terror

US, Nigeria kill ISIS global no. 2 in Lake Chad strike – a commander behind decades of terror

NEWS
IN a pre-dawn joint operation conducted Friday night, American and Nigerian military forces eliminated Abu-Bilal al-Minuki — the global second-in-command of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the most wanted militant in West Africa — striking his compound in the Lake Chad Basin in a mission that both governments have described as one of the most consequential counterterrorism strikes in the region's modern history. United States President Donald Trump announced the operation late Friday in a post on Truth Social, confirming that the strike was executed at his direction alongside the Armed Forces of Nigeria. "Tonight, at my direction, brave American…
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May
18
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
Killer returns: WHO declares global emergency as deadly Ebola strain sweeps DRC and Uganda

Killer returns: WHO declares global emergency as deadly Ebola strain sweeps DRC and Uganda

NEWS
A lethal strain of Ebola with no approved treatment or vaccine has forced the World Health Organisation to declare a global public health emergency, as communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda count their dead and brace for what health authorities fear could be a far wider catastrophe than current figures reveal. The WHO Director-General on Sunday formally declared the Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) - the organisation's highest alert level - after the disease crossed an international border, appearing simultaneously in Kampala and Kinshasa, signalling that a localised…
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May
18
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
UGANDA: Ex Speaker fights to stay out of jail

UGANDA: Ex Speaker fights to stay out of jail

NEWS
SHE had the throne, the motorcade, and the Rolls-Royce. Now Anita Annet Among - until days ago the most powerful woman in Uganda's Parliament - is battling to keep both her liberty and her backbench seat, after a Museveni-sanctioned, multi-agency raid tore through her palatial Nakasero mansion on Saturday morning in a corruption probe into alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering. It is a stunning fall - and it has been engineered, with devastating swiftness, by the very symbols of excess that Among could not resist displaying. The beginning of the end came three weeks ago, when reports emerged that…
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