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Justice Abang Okon of the Federal High Court, Warri Division has granted bail to the Delta Take-It-Back Coordinator, Ighorhiohwunu Aghogho, after spending 10 months in prison.   The Court in a bench ruling on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, granted the unopposed oral application made by the counsel for the defendant, Kunle Edun Esq.   Addressing the court, Edun submitted that he had just been briefed on the matter and he intended to make two oral applications.  

Despite a series of intervention programmes against the malaria epidemic in recent times, Nigeria is apparently not winning the war against the deadly scourge, with an estimated sum of N2.04 trillion still routinely spent on treatments yearly.

Warri Wolves and Delta Queens FC of Asaba have emerged champions of the 2023 Delta State Football Association (DFA) Cup finals.

Police in Anambra State have arrested five members of a robbery syndicate, whose member was earlier nabbed with a Beretta pistol belonging to the police, last week.The…

Acting national chairman of Labour Party (LP), Lamidi Apapa, yesterday, said the party would vigorously pursue, to the end, the case instituted by its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

The Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party has called on all arms of Nigeria’s judiciary, including tribunals and courts to ignore a letter from the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the party. According to the party, the letter is seeking the withdrawal of pending cases in the Election Petition Tribunals including that of the presidential candidate, Peter Obi challenging the victory of the ‘President-elect’, Bola Tinubu in the February 25 election. Shortly after the presidential election,...

Labour Party (LP) has called on all election petition tribunals to disregard letters by its suspended National Legal Adviser, Mr Samuel Akingbade, withdrawing all the party’s petitions. The party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr Obiora Ifoh, stated on Tuesday in Abuja that the presidential election petition tribunal in particular should dismiss the letter. He called

April 24,2023. Daily, the evil intention of the breakaway faction of the Labour Party, led by the suspended Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa continues to manifest and just this morning, our legal team was confronted by the stark revelation that these men have advanced their plot by approaching all the tribunals where our numerous candidates |

THE factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Lamidi Apapa, on Monday, distanced himself from claims of planning to withdraw the suit instituted by his party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against Bola Tinubu’s victory at the 2023 presidential election.   It will be recalled that Obi filed a suit against Tinubu at the Presidential […]

***Party fingers Lamidi Apapa for illegal act By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau The Labour Party (LP) has alerted Nigerians on a plot by its suspended Deputy National Chairman, Lamidi Apapa to illegally withdraw all pending matters before the various election tribunals including that of its Presidential candidate, Peter Obi. A statement signed by the