A Delta State High Court sitting at Oghara has restrained Emmanuel Beggi and eight other defendants from parading or holding themselves as members of the Block Executive Committee of Ogbudugbudu National Council.

Delta State chapter of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has raised alarm over the recent appointments and swearing-in of 16 new magistrates into the magistracy arm of the state judiciary.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State yesterday described the defection of six local government council chairmen of the party to Action Congress (AC) as “good riddance to bad rubbish”.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has urged Nigerians to support President Umaru Yar’Adua’s administration to enable him continue to preside over a united democratic Nigeria.

SECURITY has been fortified at the Federal Government-owned Independent Power Project (IPP) at Kwale/Okpai in Delta State, following threats by aggrieved Ndokwa natives to disrupt the project over alleged refusal of the National Agip Oil Compnay (NAOC) to step down electricity to the people.