By Austin Ogwuda, Asaba OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a banker with one of the new generation banks in Asaba, Delta State for allegedly inflating the payroll of the state government with ghost workers. The banker (names withheld) allegedly works with the bank which the Delta government contracted out […]
UGHELLI—THREE armed youths, weekend, disrupted the Delta State monthly environ-mental sanitation exercise in the Ughelli North Local Government Area. They dismantled a mobile court and chased away two unarmed police officers attached to the court. The invasion of the mobile court in the outskirt of Ekiugbo-Ughelli metropolis on the East-West Road by the youths, forced […]
Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan By Adibe Emenyonu The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Thursday struck out the appeal filed by Chief Great Ogboru of Democratic People’s Party (DPP) against the decision of the lower tribunal which upheld the declaration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as the winner of the governorship re-run election held January 6, 2011 […]
Following threats by Islamic sect, Boko Haram to attack Lagos, Delta, Anambra and other cities in the southern part of the country, a nation wide security alert was put in place yesterday especially in Lagos, Asaba and Jos. The sect, according to new intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces, had also perfected plans to […]
The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin yesterday upheld the decision of the lower tribunal, which affirmed the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) declaration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the January 6 Delta State governorship rerun election. The court presided over by Justice Raphael Agbo therefore dismissed […]
LONDON – A Southwark crown court in London has ordered former Governor James Ibori of Delta State to be remanded in prison till February 13, 2012 when his trial will commence in a 14-count charge relating to money laundering preferred against him. The trial was originally fixed for November, but Ibori’s counsel, Mr. Benjamin Aina, […]
ABUJA— New intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces, yesterday, showed that following a round-the-clock alert in all military formations across the country to prepare for possible Boko Haram bombings, the group has perfected plans to use Federal Government, states, or Services Registration (Plate) numbers as a decoy to gain access to federal and military […]
The police in Delta State have rescued a senior member of staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Godwin Ngbeken, who was kidnapped nine days ago in Warri. Two suspects were arrested, while the sum of N1.627 million was recovered from the kidnappers in their hideout, behind the office of a company in Warri. The […]
The Delta State police command has arrested 14 suspects over kidnapping, robbery and murder offences. Parading the suspects before newsmen in Asaba, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mamman Tsafe, said eight of the suspects were arrested for kidna-pping, five for robbery and one for murder. He said items recovered from them included vehi-cles, fire arms […]
The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Delta state has insisted that anything less than N19,000 would not be accepted as minimum wage for workers, even as the union was yet to enter into negotiations with the state government on the N18,000 national minimum wage. Daily Sun learnt that Delta State was among […]
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