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…
Nigeria, August 22, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Palpable tension seems to have overwhelmed the incumbent Governor of oil and gas rich Delta state, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),…
Nigeria, August 17, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Trial at the Delta State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, may have suffered setbacks due to the inability of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, to provide details…
Nigeria, August 03, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – A three-man panel of the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, chaired by Justice Nasiru Gunmi, at its resumed sitting on Monday, August 03, 2015, in Asaba, threw out another set of five motions…
Nigeria, July 23, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have again accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate in the April 11 governorship election in Delta State, Olorogun…
Nigeria, July 11, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Labour Party (LP) governorship aspirant in the just concluded governorship election in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru, Friday, July 10, made a dramatic u-turn during proceedings at the state governorship election petition…
Nigeria, July 10, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal chairman, Mr. Nasiru Gunmi has turned down an ex-party motion brought by Labour Party (LP) governorship aspirant, Chief Great Ogboru, seeking to inspect documents from Independent National Electoral…
July 01, 2015, (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday in Asaba, asked the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to collapse its preliminary objections into the substantive trial in the petition filed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) and…
June 25, (Blank NEWS Online) – Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has fixed Tuesday June 30 for ruling on a preliminary objection filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against the petition brought by All Progressive Congress (APC)…
June 25, (Blank NEWS Online) – The National Industrial Court of Nigeria presided over by Hon. Justice J.T. Agbadu-Fishim, holden at Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has granted an Order of Interim Injunction against the Governor of Rivers State, the Rivers State House of…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared that the Shipping Line Agency Charges (SLAC) levied and collected from Nigerian shippers by shipping companies since 2006 is illegal. The Court therefore ruled that the shipping companies should account and pay to…
