Wole Soyinka’s The Trial of Brother Jero and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi dramatise trial in different, compelling strata through creative literary imagination. While the lead character in Soyinka’s play Brother Jero is confronted with psychological and…
Grid shutdown: Organised labour’s action ‘treasonable offense’ — Akume
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. George Akume, has described the recent shutdown of the national grid by Organised Labour as a treasonable offense. Tribune Online reports that the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) claimed the…
Pakistan’s Imran Khan acquitted of leaking state secrets
A Pakistani high court on Monday overturned a conviction of treason against jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his lawyer and party said. The former leader and his former foreign secretary, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, were convicted in 2022 of making…
Appeal Court reserves judgment in Nnamdi Kanu’s suit challenging charges against him
The Court of Appeal Abuja has reserved judgment on an appeal filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking to quash the terrorism and treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. The…
Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s top prosecutor and security chief amid high number of cases of suspected treason
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday sacked his chief prosecutor and the head of the country’s security agency in the largest government shakeup since the start of Russia’s invasion nearly five months ago. Zelenskyy said he was firing Prosecutor General…