UK Court Sentences Ibori’s Banker to Four Years Imprisonment
Chief James Ibori LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH 2013 (URHOBOTODAY)- A British court has sentenced Ellias Preko, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who helped former Governor James Ibori of Delta State to launder millions More...
Ibori’s N4b Laundering: Court Fixes Dec 9 for Babalakin’s Re-Arraignment
Babalakin LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja will on December 9 re-arraign Wale Babalakin, the evasive chairman of Bi-Courtney who is implicated in the laundering of N4billion More...
Ibori Sacrificial Lamp: Is There Justice In This World?
Chief James Onanefe Ibori, the sacrficial lamp By Magnus Onyibe The weird thing about the ongoing Chief James Onanefe lbori, former governor of Delta State assets confiscation trial saga in the UK is that the British More...
Ibori $15m. Bribe: Delta State Govt. May Appeal against Ruling
Chief James Ibori LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE last may not have been heard on the controversial $15 million allegedly offered by the disgraced former governor of the state as bribe to Malam Nuhu Ribadu, More...
Delta State Forfeits Ibori’s $15 Million to Federal Government
Chief James Ibori LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has finally declared that the $15 million bribe money offered to the pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, More...
UK to Repatriate Ibori, 266 Nigerian Prisoners
Chief James Ibori maybe repatrated to Nigeria to serve his remaing jail term LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-James Ibori, former Delta State governor and about 266 Nigerians serving in various prisons across the More...
Why London Prosecutors Sought to Provide More Evidence On Ibori
James Ibori LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A source within the Crown Prosecutors Office in the United Kingdom has told SaharaReporters that British prosecutors who are asking a UK court to order the full confiscation More...
Ibori N22bn Loot: UK Court to Restart Asset-Confiscation Case
Chief James Ibori LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Hearing in the case of confiscation of 90 million pounds (N22.5 billion) worth of asset belonging to ex-governor James Ibori ended inconclusively on Monday in a More...
Ibori was Financially Broke before He Became a Governor-Prosecutor
Chief James Ibori LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Two of the major oil majors operating in the Niger Delta area have been indicted of entering into corrupt transactions with the jailed former governor of Delta More...
Kokori Siege; Enough of Uduaghan’s Insult on Urhobos
Kidnap Kingpin, Mr. Kelvin (5th from left) and other members of his gang while declaring 60 days ultimate for amnesty for Urhobo youths By Fejiri Oliver “Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians More...
Delta Senatorial Bye-Election: Aguariavbo Clinches PDP Ticket with Land Slide Victory
Chief Emmanuel Aguariavbodo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Member of the Federal House of Representatives and erstwhile Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Hon. Emmanuel Aguariavwodo More...
How James Ibori Stole Half of Delta State Allocation in 8 Years – Ribadu
James Ibori and Ribadu LAGOS SEPTEMBER @(TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Founding chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu, today told the Southwark Crown Court that former Governor James Onanefe Ibori More...
Anxious Wait for FG, Delta State as Court Decides Beneficiary of Ibori’s $15m
James Ibori LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20th (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court in Abuja will today decide whether the $15 million allegedly abandoned by a former Delta State governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, should be forfeited More...
Attack on Commissioner: Police Declare Uduaghan’S Aide Wanted
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ikechukwu Aduba LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY_-The Delta State Police Command has launched a manhunt for an aide of Governor EmPTEMBER manuel Uduaghan following an alleged More...
Thieves worse than Ibori Walking Free in Nigeria- Nuhu Ribadu
Chief James Ibori LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Delta state governor, and convicted money launderer, James Ibori, was never Nigeria’s worst plunderer of state wealth. He may only have been less smart. More...
Jonathan is too Weak, a Total Disappointment – Asari Dokubo
Asari Dokubo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The President of the defunct Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahedeen Asari- Dokubo, once again took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan, stating that More...
Delta Indigenes Appeal for the Release of Ibori from UK Prison
Chief James Onanefe Ibori LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Prominent Delta State personalities have appealed to the Federal Government to facilitate the release of former Delta State Governor Chief Onanefe Ibori presently More...
Ibori, Uduaghan and N133b Abandoned Projects in Delta State
LAGOS JULY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Projects Status Overview by the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has revealed how his predecessor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, abandoned over 418 road projects, valued at More...
Ibori Mourns Ewherido from UK Prison, Says He was Forthright, Dependable
LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)- Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, has described the late Senator Pius Ewherido as forthright, unassuming, highly focused and truly dependable. Ibori in a statement by his media More...
You Cannot Claim Ibori’s $15m Bribe Money, FG Tells Uduaghan
James Ibori LAGOS JULY 11 (URHOBOTODAY)- The Federal Government on Wednesday gave reasons why the Delta State Government should not claim the $15m said to have been received by the Economic and Financial Crimes More...
UK Police Officer Ibori Accused of Corruption is Cleared
DC Peter Clarke and DC John McDonald spearheaded the global corruption investigations that put James Ibori in jail LAGOS JULY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-John McDonald, a British police officer with the Proceeds of Crime More...
Ibori, Ex-London Lawyer in Fresh Trouble over Alleged Perversion of Justice
(L-R) Chief James Ibori and hia former London Lawyer Bhadresh Gohil LAGOS JULY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY) Former Governor James Onanefe Ibori, who is currently serving a 13-year jail sentence in the UK, is in fresh legal More...
Ewherido: The Political Tremor on Ground
Late Senator Pius Ewherido LAGOS JULT 2ND (URHOBOTODAY) Senator Pius Ewherido who died last Sunday at 50 was a phenomenal politician whose exit from the political platform would indisputably alter the political More...
Corruption: E.K. Clark’s Group Drags Orubebe Before EFCC
(L-R) Elder Godsday Orubebe and Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS JUNE 20TH (URHOBOTODAY) The political troubles for Godsday Orubebe, Nigeria’s Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, appear to be intensifying as a coalition of More...
Ogboru: The Journey So Far
Chief Great Ovadje Ogboru addressing crowd of supporters On June 21 2013, the Supreme Court is expected to give its judgement on the prolonged legal battle over the last governorship election in Delta State. The More...