James Onanefe Ibori

In Abuja the story is of the rise and fall and rise again of James Ibori former Governor of oil-rich Delta State sentenced to 13 years in Britain for fraud and money laundering in 2012...

Ibori was convicted in Britain having been extradited from Dubai in 2012 and sentenced to 13 years in jail after pleading guilty in a London Crown Court to 10 charges of fraud and money-laundering but was released after serving less than half his sentence (AC Vol 53 No 9 Star-struck James Ibori)...

Welcome back to the corridors of power James Ibori...

The Niger Delta's de facto leader in the absence of former governor of Delta State the ex-convict James Ibori Wike's convening power will be crucial in achieving any gains for the cause of resource control in the region over the next three years of his tenure...

The government highlighted HSBC's links to laundering funds for several disgraced officials including the late military ruler General Sani Abacha in the 1990s former Delta State Governor James Ibori convicted in London in 2012 for corruption and unnamed serving Senators...

Ibori is backAnother member of that class is James Ibori the former Delta State Governor jailed in Britain in 2012 for fraud and money-laundering offences involving nearly £50 million (AC Vol 54 No 21 Ibori treasure hunt to go on)...

Both Lamorde and Magu worked closely with London's Metropolitan Police on the prosecution of James Onanefe Ibori former Governor of Delta State and now in gaol in Britain for money laundering...

The process of deciding how much of ex-Delta State Governor James Ibori's assets the Crown will confiscate will now continue in what promises to be high courtroom drama in the new year...

Southwark Crown Court witnessed a bizarre sight in late September when the former Governor of Delta State James Onanefe Ibori argued that property he had already admitted owning was not really his...

Ibori was sentenced to 13 years in gaol for money-laundering and fraud last year (AC Vol 53 No 9 Star-struck James Ibori)...

Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC set off a storm of controversy about the Nigerian oil company Oando when she stated according to Reuters ‘the Crown will assert that Oando is a company where James Ibori has hidden assets'...

Ex-Governor of Delta State James Ibori could be back in Nigeria as early as late 2016...

Having pleaded guilty to ten money-laundering charges and obtaining a money transfer by deception and fraud James Onanefe Ibori the former Governor of Delta State will be sentenced on 16 and 17 April at London’s Southwark Crown Court (AC Vol 52 No 16 Governors on top and on trial & The strange case of the ex-Governors)...

He in turn was a man who did little to deflect the impression that his job was to shield from prosecution James Ibori ex-Governor of Delta State and a major contributor to President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s presidential campaign...