Delta Court Jails Father, Son 26 Years For Selling ‘Ogogoro’
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court, sitting in Asaba, Delta State on Tuesday sentenced a 58-year old man, Isaac Uti and his son, Jonathan (29) for dealing on ethanol, popularly known as Ogogoro. The More...
Alleged N1.5bn Money Laundering: Nwaoboshi Loses Bid To Unfreeze Assets
Nwaoboshi LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has rejected a bid by a serving Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi to have the court vacate the temporary forfeiture order slammed on his property. Men More...
Patience Jonathan Confused as Court Orders Forfeiture of $5.8m
Patience Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In what amounts to a setback for immediate past former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Wednesday More...
Ikoyi Raid: Court Orders Forfeiture Of Cash Found To FG
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, More...
Lagos Police Dock Female Banker For Brutalizing DPO
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Divisional Police Officer, DPO of Ebute-Ero division, Lagos SP Sina Olunlade has been hospitalized after been attacked and brutalized by Adaobi Obi, a banker in Lagos. The More...
UPU Crisis: Omene Threatens to Drag Urhobo Monarchs, Others to Court Over ‘Ostracism’
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Crisis plaguing Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) is getting worst daily as controversial President-General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Chief Joe Omene has threatened to drag HRH More...
Court Sentences Kidnappers of Delta Speaker, Monday Igbuya to 104 Years Imprisonment
Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Hon Monday Igbuya LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Delta State High Court sitting at Kwale presided over by Honourable Justice O. Jaloggo-Williams has sentenced eight accused More...
Judicial Activities Paralyzed in Lagos Court as Fire Guts Chief Judge’s Chambers
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Judicial activities were temporarily paralysed on Wednesday at the premises of the Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, as fire gutted the chambers of the state Chief Judge (CJ), More...
Ogoni Communities Drag Shell to Court in UK for ‘Decades of Oil Spills’ in Nigeria
LAGOS NOVEMVER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi, leader of Nigeria’s Ogale people, unpacked four bottles of water from his homeland and lined them up on a table to show why his subjects are suing More...
NDLEA Accuses Nine Suspected Operators of Super Methamphetamine Factory of Frustrating Trial
The nine suspected lab operators LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has accused four Mexicans and five Nigerians standing trial over illegal running of a super methamphetamine More...
Bayelsa: Arrested Publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper still in DSS Detention 3 months after
By Amos Odeh LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Publisher of Weekly Source newspaper, Chief Jones Abiri is still in Department of State Security (DSS) detention in Abuja after three months of his arrest from More...
Police Intensify Search for Escapee Rapist
Idris LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigeria Police has intensify search a 23-year-old rape suspect, Okpara Miracle, in Awka, Anambra State who escaped from a Magistrates’ Court through the window. Miracle, More...
Alleged False Declaration & Cultism: PDP Drags APC Candidate, Obaseki to Court
Edo State APC Governorship candidate, Godwin Obaseki LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has asked a court to disqualify the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Godwin More...
Biafra Activist, Yagozie Eze, Others to Appear in UK Court Over Anti-Buhari’s Protests
Photo: Biafran protester in Lagos holds up banner seeking for Nnamdi Kanu’s release LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) Biafra activist, Yagozie Eze and Others will be appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ More...
More Trouble for PDP as Police Seal Off Convention Venue (PHOTOS)
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The problem of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP seems to be getting worst daily as the venue of the Party’s convention today in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital has been sealed More...
JUST IN:Court Declares 45% Electricity Tariff Hike Illegal, Orders Reversal
LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, in a landmark judgement has declared the 45 per cent tariff increase by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) as illegal. The More...
Peter Threatens to Sue Elder Brother for Booking Solo Performance With PSquare Brand
LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Just when we were beginning to believe that all is well with the Okoye brothers, Peter Okoye of the P Square duo threatens to sue their former manager and older brother, Jude Okoye More...
Abia: Court Upholds Ikpeazu Removal
Ikpeazu LAGOS JULY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday refused to set aside his earlier order removing Okezie Ikpeazu as governor of Abia State. Wole Olanipekun (SAN), More...
EXPOSED: New Abia Governor, Uche Ogah is Standing Trial for Forgery
Uche Ogah LAGOS JUL 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The man billed to take over from Okezie Ikpeazu as governor of Abia state is standing trial for forgery in Lagos State. The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] More...
Who Is On Trial: The Nigeria Senate Or Saraki and Ekweremadu?
Sir Kenny Okolugbo By Kenny Okolugbo LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-I have spoken so much on this issue on the electronic media in a lot of forums, it beats my imagination that it is difficult for Nigerians to sift More...
N1.5bn Fraud: Court Slams Five Years Jail Term on Former NIMASA DG, Omatseye
Raymond Omatseye LAGOS MAY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)- – Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has slammed five years jail term against a former Director-General (DG) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency More...
Methamphetamine Lab: Trial of Four Mexicans, Five Nigerians Stalled Again
LAGOS MAY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The trial of four Mexicans and five Nigerians over alleged operation of a super laboratory for the illicit production of methamphetamine has again been stalled on Friday May 13, 2016 More...
Dismiss Tompolo Request to Stop Trial, Federal Government Tells Court
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government of Nigeria has asked the Federal High Court, Lagos, to dismiss the case filed by Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) for being an abuse of process More...
Delta: Aniocha Crown Prince, Others Charge to Court for Stealing
LAGOS MAY ND (URHOBOTODAY)-At last, the crown Prince of Idumuje-Ugboko in Aniocha North local government area of Delta State, Chukwunonso Nwoko has been charged to court. Nwoko had allegedly caused the ejection More...
Tompolo Drags FG to Court, Wants Trial Halted
Tompolo LAGOS APRIL 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former militant leader declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has sued the Nigerian government seeking an end to his trial for alleged fraud. Government More...