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Zomba High Court judge Zione Ntaba has suspended the arrest and further detention of Minister of Lands Kezzie Msukwa who was nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday. Ntaba has questioned the manner in which Msukwa was arrested, describing it as unreasonable and meant to just embarrass him. However, ACB Director General Martha Chizuma …
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Malian officers upset with a government reshuffle have detained the president and prime minister at an army camp outside the capital, triggering broad international condemnation and demands for their immediate release.
His is anti-graft initiative was spurred by the uptick in corrupt activities during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The multiple proceedings against Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield, Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo and PNCR chairwoman Volda Lawrence, based on their alleged criminal conduct during elections processes last year, have again been adjourned as more statements are awaited from the prosecution.
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Analysis - Exploiting public office to win elections is common but Madagascar and Cabo Verde are making polls more fair.
[Nation] Nairobi County Assembly Speaker Benson Mutura is set to be sworn in today (Monday) as acting Nairobi Governor, even as Mike Sonko's political fate looks sealed.
Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests that tested the nation’s ability to run elections while balancing a pandemic and sweeping social unrest.
On Tuesday, voters across America were forced to navigate curfews, health concerns and National Guard troops — waiting in line hours after polls closed in some cases — after election officials dramatically reduced the number of in-person voting sites to minimize the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
Voting rights watchdogs in multiple states on Tuesday expressed concerns about access to mail ballots, confusion about deadlines and a shortage of poll workers that led to long lines.
Two other states holding primary elections on Tuesday, Idaho and Iowa, chose their presidential nominee early in the year.
In a New Mexico race for an open House seat, ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame lost the Democratic primary to attorney Teresa Leger Fernandez, a professional advocate for Native American communities and voting rights issues.
Senegal's health ministry said Monday that hospitals in the capital Dakar were \"close to saturation\" due to a surge in Covid-19 patients, with overworked medical personnel facing burnout.
More than one hundred delegates from six states held a Black convention in Philadelphia. John Mercer Langston, one of the first Blacks to win public office, elected clerk of Brownhelm Township, Lorain County, Ohio. In 1856 he was elected clerk of the township of Russia, near Oberlin. In 1857 he was elected to the council of the incorporated village of Oberlin. From 1871 to 1878 Langston was president of the board of health of Washington, D.C. In 1889 he was elected to the U.S. Congress from Virginia. The pioneer Black lawyer also served as minister to Haiti and Vice President of Howard University.
The content originally appeared on: CNN Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33, both of London's Metropolitan Police, admitted to taking and sharing images of Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, at a court hearing in London on Tuesday, PA Media reports. The officers were protecting the scene where the sisters' bodies had been found in a park in Wembley, northwest London, when they broke the cordon in order to take photos, before sharing them on WhatsApp. Jaffer took […]
The Managing Director of Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company, Marilyn Amobi, has continued to run and direct her private company in the United Kingdom, in what is clearly a contravention of Nigeria's code of conduct for public officers, PREMIUM TIMES can report.
A whistle-blower first alerted PREMIUM TIMES to Ms Amobi's continued running of the UK-based company as well as a version of it in Nigeria.
Against the law
Nigeria's constitution prescribes code of conduct for public officers, including those in publicly-controlled companies, such as NBET.
Ms Amobi was appointed NBET boss in 2016 and re-appointed this May by President Muhammadu Buhari
Nigerian records of ESL seen by PREMIUM TIMES indicate that Ms Amobi remains a director of the company in Nigeria, which she registered alongside a family member, Ifeoma Amobi, in 2012.
'Company inactive'
A representative, whom Ms Amobi asked to speak with PREMIUM TIMES following our text to her, said the \"company has not been working,\" but did not deny NBET's boss active management.
