JUST IN: Soldiers Kill Notorious Lagos Militant Kingpin In Ondo
LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected leader of a militant group involved in the series of kidnap cases in Ikorodu and Epe areas of Lagos has been shot dead by soldiers. The suspect simply identified as OC was More...
You Cannot Kill Rev King, Falana Tells Ambode
Rev King LAGOS APRIL 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has asked Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State to commute the death penalty passed on death row inmates in the state to life More...
Journalists Protest ‘Brutal’ Assassination of Colleague In Bayelsa
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Journalists at Radio Bayelsa on Tuesday marched round Yenagoa to protest against the killing of their colleague, Famous Giobaro, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. The protesters, More...
Militants On rampage In Lagos, Kill Scores of Soldiers, Police in Ikorodu
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Militants are on rampage in Lagos killing scores of soldiers and police in Ikorodu area. The militants struck overnight at Woodland Estate area, Ishawo in Ikorodu. Urhobotoday source More...
Policemen Pull Uniform, Flee As Robbers Kill Money Depositor in Asaba Bank
IGP Idris LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tragedy struck today as unknown gunmen shot a middle-aged man who came to deposit money in a bank at Asaba, Delta state. The bank customer who died while being rushed More...
Lagos: Ethnic Crisis Erupts in Igando as Hausa Trader Kills Yoruba Driver Over N30
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Riot started on Monday, January 30, on Mojeed street, Igando Lagos, when a 40-year-old Hausa trader, Ibrahim Adamu, allegedly killed a bus driver, Lekan Adeleke. Residents and family More...
Boko Haram Strikes Borno village, Abducts Seven Women, Kill Three Residents
Shekau LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members on Monday abducted about seven women and killed three other persons when they attacked a village in the southern part of Borno State, More...
Collapsed Mast, Sign Post Kill Three in Port Harcourt
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Three people, including a teenage girl and her little brother, died yesterday when a telecommunications mast and a signage pole fell at the Mile 3 axis of Port Harcourt. The structures More...
Early Morning University of Maiduguri Blast Kill Professor, Others, Injure 17
LAGOS JANURU 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The twin bomb blasts from suicide bombers which occurred in the early hours of Monday at the University of Maiduguri Mosque, Borno State has claimed the lives of a Professor, four More...
European Union Demands Immediate Release of Nnamdi Kanu, Investigation of Killing of Biafran Members
Nnamdi Kanu LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The demand for unconditional release of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, received an international boost Tuesday with the European More...
How Cultist Lover Kills Final Year Delta Polytechnic Student
Murdered female student ….Julia LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tragedy struck the Ogwashi-Uku community of Delta State on Tuesday as a final year female student of the Delta State Polytechnic, simply identified More...
Delta Police Kill Four Armed Robbers in Warri Daylight Gun Battle
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than four suspected armed robbers were reportedly killed yesterday afternoon during a gun duel with Delta police in Warri, Delta State. According to report monitored More...
Fear Grips Deltans as Lassa Fever Kills Doctor With 32 People on Surveillance
LAGOS AUGST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Ministry of Health has confirmed one person dead and 32 others on surveillance following the reported case of Lassa fever. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas More...
Motorcycle Suicide Bomber Kills 4, Injures 24 in Cameroon Market
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed three people and wounded 24 at a market in north Cameroon, where armed group Boko Haram has been waging an armed rebellion since 2009, authorities More...
MEND Still Plotting to Assassinate Me, Jonathan Cries Out
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOTODAY)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is still plotting to assassinate him, just as he denied More...
Easter Tragedy: Pakistan Blast Kills 65, Injures 300 People
Vikas Swarup, spokesman for India’s External Affairs ministry, tweeted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi telephoned Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif to express his deep condolences. He said Modi “underlined More...
Delta: Enraged Family Kill Man for Killing His Brother in Ughelli
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Usman Alkali LAGOS MARCH 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A man identified as Opipi Ajomo, who allegedly killed his younger brother, Eravwokpo Ajomo, over sharing of their father’s plot of More...
Man Kills Mum Two Days After Finishing 30-Year Murder Sentence
Steven Pratt LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) — A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing his mother two days after he completed a 30-year prison sentence for killing a neighbor. Steven Pratt pleaded guilty More...
Boko Haram Burns Children Alive in Saturday Night Attack in Borno State
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria’s More...
Police Kill 99 Criminals in Delta, Bayelsa, Edo States in 2015
Solomon Arase LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 99 suspected criminals were killed in gun battles with officers of the Nigeria Police at several locations in Edo, Bayelsa and Delta States from January More...
Tension in Bayelsa as Gunmen Kill APC Chieftain
Arase LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tension heightened Thursday among among members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following the killing of Diseye Dickson, the deputy More...
Unknown Gunmen Kill Four Policemen in Delta State
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The news of the broad daylight murders caused serious pandemonium and mourning at the Delta State police command where policemen were seen in groups discussing More...
Again, Boko Haram Kills Thirty Traders in a Village Market of Borno State
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At least about 30 traders are reported to have been killed in a deadly bomb explosion at a local market in Borno State on Friday, according to a local vigilante speaking to SaharaReporters. A More...
Delta: Residents Desert Ogwashi-Uku as Policewoman Kills Policeman
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS JULY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A female Police Sergeant, simply identified as Helen, has killed her husband in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State. The victim, identified More...
Delta: Kerosene Explosion Kills 3-Year Old Girl in Ozoro, Expectant Mother Unconscious
LAGOS JULY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A kerosene explosion has killed a three-year-old girl at Ozoro in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State. An expectant mother, who was hit in the explosion, was in coma yesterday More...
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