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…
Nigeria’s anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has disclosed that the Director General of the Delta State Direct Labour Agency (DLA), Emmanuel Odafe Igbini, is being investigated by the Commission in a case of abuse of office and money…
The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Prof. Amos Utuama SAN has advocated the Principle of Federalism in the handling of court cases in Nigeria to checkmate the volume of pending cases in high and supreme courts in nation. The deputy governor stated…
Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, SAN has challenged the decision of the Nigerian Army General Court Martial that convicted and sentenced 12 soldiers to death by firing squad for mutiny and other offences on 16th September, 2014. In Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/708/2014 filed by the…
The Judiciary in Delta State has been granted financial autonomy by the State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, thereby ensuring the complete independence of the third arm of government. Governor Uduaghan whose administration had ensured the Judiciary in the state run its capital…
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has described anger as the greatest challenge facing Nigeria as a nation. Speaking on the topic, ” Nigeria’s Biggest Problem: Corruption or Impunity?” Governor Uduaghan stated that while corruption and impunity were part of the problems…
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has asked newly elected executive of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to brace up to defend the country’s democracy and uphold the rule of law. In a congratulatory statement issued in Lagos by Felix Ofou, his…
The Supreme Court Monday May 26, 2014 in Abuja awarded N8m as costs against Dr Dickson Osuala, counsel to Chief Great Ogboru of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) for what it termed as an abuse of the process of the apex court,…
Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has enjoined the National Judicial Council (NJC) to reverse its decision in the suspension of Justice Agumagu barely days after he was sworn-in as Chief Judge of Rivers State by the State Government….
Can the newly registered All Peoples Congress, APC, truly upstage the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in Delta State? While many will hasten to say no, others might be slow in answering if they consider a recent remark in the media by Chief…
