2019: Hundreds Of Ijaw, Itsekiri Youths In Warri Rally Support For Okowa, Otuaro
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Hundreds of Ijaw and Itsekiri youths from Warri South-West council area of Delta state have vowed their resolve to return the Dr Ifeanyi Okowa/Barr. Kingsley Otuaro-led administration More...
2019: Isoko, Itsekiri Vow To Vote Out James Manager.. Describe Him As Sit Tight Mugabe
James Manager LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Isoko Monitoring Group (IMG), a pressure group in Isoko, Delta State, has expressed displeasure over the “continuous stay of Senator James Manager, an Ijaw, More...
Army Denies Killing Nine Aladja Indigenes Despite Provocation
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Army 6 Division has denied the allegations that soldiers from the 3 Battalion in Effurun shot dead nine persons in Aladja community during its renewed clash with Ogbe-Ijoh More...
Ijaw, Itsekiri Youths Clash Over Delta South Senatorial Seat
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As pressure mounts ahead of 2019 general elections, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Western Zone, has lambasted Itsekiri, who are currently agitating for power rotation/sharing More...
2019: Delta Ijaw APC Unites, Endorses Buhari’s Re-election
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The seemingly slit disunity among the Ijaw leaders and chieftains of All Progressives Congress APC, in Delta State, have been resolved with a determination to ensure and promote More...
Trouble Looms As Urhobo Youths Order Ijaw Indigenes To Vacate Udu Community
LAGOS MAY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A war might be looming in Delta State as the members of Ighele-Urhobo (Youth Wing of Urhobo) Udu Local Government Chapter today gave all Ijaw indigenes resident in Udu land fourteen More...
Uduaghan: Am Not Going To The Senate Serve Itsekiri Alone, But The Whole Delta
Uduaghan LAGOS MAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The immediate-past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has reiterated the fact that he has the capacity to give good representation to Delta South Senatorial District More...
Ijaw, Itsekiri Youths Advises FG Not To Play Politics With Dredging Of Warri Port
LAGOS APRIL16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaw and Itsekiri youths have advised the federal government not to play politics with the Warri Port dredging contract. The youths who commended Federal Government for the approval More...
Ijaw Group Cries Out Over Military Harassment Of Kinsmen In Warri
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Niger Delta Group under the auspices of the Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, has accused the Nigerian Military of harassing indigenes and residents of Beneath Community More...
Gunmen Kill Ex- Delta Marine School Provost, Johnson Dittimi In E.K. Clark’s Village
Johnson Dittimi LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (URHOBODAY)-Suspected assassins, at about 8pm on Thursday night of December 7 shot dead the pioneer provost of the Delta State School of Marine Technology, DESOMATEC, Dr. Johnson More...
Okowa Brokers Peace Between Warring Urhobo, Ijaw Communities
LAGOS JULY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State governor Ifeayin Okowa has sued for peace between warring Aladja and Gbaramatu communities. He called for an emergency meeting between the two communities. He called More...
Okowa Receives Committee’s Report on Aladja/Ogbe-Ijoh Crisis, Sues for Peaceful Co-Existence
Prof Abednego presenting the reports to Gov. Okowa By Barth Ndego LAGOS MARCH 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has received reports from the committee set up to resolve the land dispute More...
Newly Elected UPU President General, Taiga Promises to Build Bridges Across Ethnic Lines
Olorogun Moses Taiga LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Newly elected President General of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Chief Moses Taiga, has vowed to build bridges of unity across all ethnic nationalities in Delta More...
MEND Joins ‘Wailing Wailers’, Passes Vote of No Confidence on Buhari
Buhari LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta [MEND] has joined the popular ‘wailing wailers’ and has currently passed a vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu More...
JUST IN: Delta APC Leader, Senator Frances Okpozo Passes On
Senator Frnacis Okpozo LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Second Republic senator and chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, Senator Francis Spanner Okpozo is dead. Details of his death were still sketchy as More...
Ijaw Community Raises Alarm Over Poisonous Air Pollution from Shell Gas Facility
By Amos Okioma LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents and indigenes of Tombia Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have raised the alarm over suspected poisonous air pollution allegedly emanating More...
Ijaw/Urhobo Crisis: Ijaw Youth Council Sue for Peace
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Foremost sociocultural group in the Niger Delta, the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC Worldwide have appealed to the Urhobo youth leadership over a 14 days ultimatum handed out for Ijaws More...
Delta: Seven Missing, Houses Set Ablaze as Ijaw, Urhobo Communities Clash Escalates
Delta CP Zanna Ibrahim LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Seven residents were reportedly abducted and houses torched in Ayama, Udu council area, Delta state as the community’s clash with neighboring Isaba, Warri More...
Urhobo Youths Summit and Matters Arising in Niger Delta
By Sunny Awhefeada LAGOS OCTOBER 26TTH (URHOBOTODAY)-Come Saturday 29 October 2016, Urhobo youths will gather in Warri for the Urhobo youth summit organized by the youth wing of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU). More...
Urhobo Progress Union Inaugurates New Executive Members in Bayelsa State
By Amos Okioma LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Urhobos resident in Bayelsa State under the aegis of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has sworn in new executive members to run their affairs for the next three More...
Delta Police Avert Crisis Between Urhobo, Ijaw Youths in Warri
IGP Idris LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Just few weeks after peace was brokered between warring Urhobo and Ijaw youths in Warri, Delta State, another bloody ethnic crisis was averted in Warri between youths of More...
Ijaw, Urhobo Communities Sign Peace Pact over Ownership of Dsiputed Ogbe-Ijoh Market
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Agbassa and Ogbe-Ijoh Communities in Warri South Local Government Area, Tuesday signed a peace pact pending the determination of the Delta State Government on the ownership of the More...
Sad:Four Dead in Boat Mishap on Trip to Tompolo Father’s Funeral
Tompolo’s father corpse arrived in Gbaramatu LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Four people were feared dead in Warri River on Friday in a boat mishap involving the funeral party to the burial of late Thomas More...
Operation Crocodile Smile: Food, Transportation Crises Hit Delta, Bayelsa
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)—Several riverine communities, including Oporoza and Ogulagha in Delta State, and Ezetu, Aggeh and others in Bayelsa State, have been struck by food and transportation crises More...
Militancy: Itsekiri, Ijaw Groups Differ over Talks with FG
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-An Ijaw group, Niger Delta Security Watch Organisation, NDSWO, has differed with the Warri Study Group, WSG, an Itsekiri group, over the latter’s denunciation of the purported More...
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