Nigerian authorities should immediately drop charges against journalist Obinna Don Norman, release him from prison, and reform the 2015 cybercrime act to ensure it is not used to prosecute journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Norman, owner and editor-in-chief of…
The Supreme Court has struck out an appeal filed by the APC challenging the judgment of a High Court in Port Harcourt which barred the party from conducting any primaries in the state to nominate candidates to represent the party in the…
From SUNNY A. DAVID / AWKA: The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Senatorial candidate for Anambra South Senatorial District in the forthcoming February 16 general elections, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu has won his appeal filed against the earlier verdict of an Abuja High…
Defilement is having sexual intercourse with a person (this includes both boys and girls) under the age of 18 years. It doesn’t matter whether the person has given consent or not. The major determinant in defilement is AGE.
The Domestic Violence and Sexual Offenses Unit of the Delta State Ministry of Justice has raised alarm over the high cases of defilement of minors in the State.Barr. Mrs. Uche Akamagwuna, Director, Domestic Violence and Sexual Offenses Unit of the Ministry disclosed…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, presided over by Justice Abdul Aboki, has barred the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) from proceeding with hearing in the false assets declaration filed against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, (CJN) Walter Onnoghen. At the resumed…
-(Editor): The Nigeria Police has prepared fresh criminal charges against embattled lawmaker representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, Senate Dino Melaye. Melaye will be re-arraigned today, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, Blank NEWS Online can report. Melaye claims that the police had…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday granted an order of interim injunction restraining President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF from removing the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Walter Onnoghen, from office. Justice Inyang…
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has slammed former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose with money laundering charges, ahead of his formal arraignment early next week in court. The EFCC, which started following Fayose’s financial transactions more than…
New York, September 18, 2018–An Abuja magistrate’s court on Monday struck out a case against Jones Abiri, publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Weekly Source, Samuel Ogala, a lawyer who represents Abiri, told CPJ. The court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction over…
An Asaba high court presided over by the Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Marshal Umukoro, has sentenced three convicts responsible for the kidnap of the wife of the Delta State House of Assembly Speaker Mrs Tobore Oborevwori, to 21 years imprisonment…
The Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Delta State, Barr. Peter Mrakpor has revealed that investigations proved that most cultists come from families where parents are cultists. Mrakpor, who made this revelation while briefing journalists recently during the 2018 Ministerial Press Briefing…
Former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori, has filed an appeal against his conviction on Wednesday at London’s Court of Appeal. Ibori who was jailed and spent years in UK prison after pleading guilty to laundering a stolen fortune in Britain, is…
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a spiritual leader in India, has been charged for forcing more than 400 followers to undergo castration. He was charged by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). “The charge sheet against 50-year-old Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was filed by…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Delta state government, on Tuesday, August 08, 2017 reacted to a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court order freezing the state’s Paris-London Club Refund bank accounts as a result of a dispute surrounding the money…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: Speaker of Delta state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Sherrif Oborevwori; Delta state House of Assembly and Mr. Otto Aghoghophia have been dragged before the Federal High Court, Asaba over the illegal appointment of the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: The High Court of Justice, sitting at Otor-Udu, Delta State and presided over by Hon. Justice C.E Achilefu (Mrs.) today Friday, the 28th day of April, 2017 in Suit No: OUHC/111/2016 OGHENEJABOR IKIMI, ESQ., VS. GOVERNOR OF…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: A former Counsellor and a Staff of Delta State Judiciary to die by hanging for stabbing his co-flatmate’s wife to death A Delta State High Court sitting at Ughelli Judicial Division has sentenced one Narebor Stephen Donbrapade,…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –By Albert OGRAKA: The Executive Director (Finance and Administration) at the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Bashorun (Hon.) Askia Ogieh, JP, KSJI, CNA, has lauded the efforts of the state governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) –: A Delta State High Court sitting at Kwale presided over by Honourable Justice O. Jaloggo-Williams has sentenced eight accused persons responsible for the kidnap of the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly Honourable Monday Igbuya…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The National Judicial Council (NJC), has suspended seven senior judges arrested in October by the State Security Service for alleged corruption. The NJC had initially refused to suspend the judges despite public pressure, saying the allegations against…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu has been ordered to vacate office with immediate effect. Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja gave the order on Monday. Meanwhile, Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Supreme Court of Nigeria has rested claims, counter-claims and doubts on he eligibility of the lawmakers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Anambra state in the National Assembly by declaring them as duly elected. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – Darius Dickson Ishaku of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) retained his position as the governor of Taraba State, folowing the Supreme Court ruling on Thursday, February 11, 2016, dismissing the petition filed by the All Progressives Congress…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– Leader of the Independent People of Biafra and Director if Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has been refused bail by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi charged along with Kanu were…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) By Albert OGRAKA– While the dust on the sack of Senator Uche Ekwunife by the Court of Appeal is yet to settle down, Nigeria’s apex judicial body, the Supreme Court has sacked Stella Oduah and Andy Uba, the…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Owerri has sacked Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), winner of the April 11 Abia state governorship election and the April 25 supplementary election respectively. The…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the outcome of the April 11 governorship election in Akwa Ibom State. The appellate court equally set aside the verdict of the Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Petition…
Nigeria (Blank NEWS Online) – The Benin Division of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, Edo state has nullified the election and Tribunal victory of Osi Okocha, Accord Party member representing Aniocha North constituency at the Delta state House of…
Nigeria, November 09, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – In a bid to avert resentment and drive home his denials of stealing public funds, Nigeria’s former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has today, Monday, November 9, appeared before the Code…
Nigeria, October 28, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The EFCC on Tuesday re-arraigned the Executive Secretary Delta state Scholarship Board and Its Accountant, on five count charge of conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N169million. They were docked before Justice F…
Nigeria, October 28, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Nigeria’s apex court, the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, October 28, 2015 dismissed the appeal of the Rivers state governor, Nyesome Wike. The appellant had objected that the court lacked merit to relocate the case…
Nigeria, October 27, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – JUBILIATIONS across Delta State and beyond greeted the affirmation of the election of Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa as duly elected Governor of Delta State by the election petition tribunal sitting in Asaba with Governor…
Nigeria, October 24, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Saturday, October 24, 2015 nullified the election of Governor Nyesom Wike, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the April 11, 2015 governorship…
Nigeria, September 15, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has formally opened his defence in the petition filed at the Delta State governorship election petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, the state capital. At the resumed hearing…
Nigeria, September 05, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba on Friday, September 04, 2015 rejected attempt by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate in the governorship election, Olorogun Otega Emerhor,…
Nigeria, September 02, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta state has affirmed that LP and Ogboru’s star witness is hostile to the petitioners. The petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its…
Nigeria, September 01, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – In a dramatic twist, the Labour Party (LP) and its Governorship candidate in the April 11 governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru has cried out in court that his star witness has…
Nigeria, August 30, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Delta state Police Command has uncovered plot by some officials of the state chapter of the Labour Party to tender fake election results sheets in court. A certified true copy of the police…
Nigeria, August 28, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate in the governorship election in Delta State, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, of stalling…
