Onuesoke: Senate Approved PIB Bill Is A Fraud On People Of Niger-Delta
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS MAY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described the Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB) recently approved by the House of Senate as fraud More...
‘Shell Contributes $29bn to Nigerian Purse Between 2012–2016’
L-R: Campaign Implementation Advisor, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), Mrs. Darbuni Maikori; Communications Manager, Shell Nigeria, Mrs. Sola Abulu and Corporate Media Relations Manager, Mr. More...
N’Delta: Succour As Buhari Releases N30bn To Ex-Militants. Plans To Release N5bn More
Buhari LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)- There seems to be relief as the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari released an additional N30 billion to step-up the Amnesty Programme in the oil rich but impoverished More...
Niger-Delta: Ex-Militants Disrupt NDDC Programme
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some ex-agitators in the Niger Delta on Tuesday disrupted a hearing organised by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to investigate allegations of corruption and racketeering More...
N’Delta: FG Orders Contractors to Return to Site Or Face Prosecution
Vice President Yemi Osibanjors,Yemi Osibanjo,EFCC LAGOS MARCH 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government has issued a new set of directives in its bid to accelerate the implementation of the Buhari administration’s More...
Mr. President Meeting with Niger- Delta Region Stakeholders: Hope For Minorities?
Vice President Osinbajo and some Niger Delta leaders during one of his peace meetings…… By Samuel Orovwuje LAGOS MARCH 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The various fine points and strategic engagements by the Acting More...
JTF Intensifies Raid on Sponsors of Crude Oil Theft, Destroys 80 Illegal Refineries
By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa. Worried by rampant oil theft in the Niger Delta, troops of joint operation Delta Safe have intensified raids operation against crude oil theft as 80 illegal refineries were destroyed More...
N’Delta: Buhari Orders Army To Return ‘Egbesu Spiritual’ Sword
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate return of the Egbesu golden sword seized by the Nigerian Army last year to Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South Local Government More...
NIMASA: N’Delta Group Slams Dakuku Peterside For Refusing To Fund Maritime University
Dr Dakuku Peterside LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change (NDIMRC) has slammed the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration More...
N’Delta Amnesty Beneficiaries to Kick Off First Ever Automobile Assembly Plant In Nigeria
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Niger Delta Amnesty beneficiaries are part of workers expected to kick off a propose first class automobile industry in Bayelsa State. Bayelsa State Government, Presidential More...
Goodluck Jonathan: True, Fiscal Federalism Is The Only Option To Niger-Delta Crisis
Former President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the only option that will solve the agitation in the Niger Delta is true and fiscal federalism as practiced More...
N’Delta: Boroh, Entourage Storm Tompolo’s Community Ahead of Vice President’s Visit
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In his efforts to prepare for the Vice President visit to Niger Delta, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, More...
Nigeria Vice President, Osinbajo to Lead FG Fact-Finding Team to N’Delta Areas
Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osibanjo LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidency has constituted a fact-finding team, headed by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to traverse the beleaguered area 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...
Attack On Oil Facilities: Buhari Begs N’Delta Militants For Negotiation
Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday appealed to the Niger Delta militants destroying oil installations in the region to sheath their swords and come for negotiation with 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...
Omo-Agege Under Attack over Comment on FG Non-Development of Niger Delta
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Senator representing Delta Central senatorial district, Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has come under attack by a group under the aegis of Niger-Delta More...
N’Delta: Army Officers Fingered In Oil Rackets, Extortion of Truck Owners
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Events surrounding a recent seizure of three fuel laden Mack tankers by army men of 3rd Battalion stationed at Warri, Delta State, their consequent alleged attempt at extorting More...
Ex-Gov. Attah Slams NDDC, S-South Governors for Underdevelopment In N/Delta
Victor Attah LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Erstwhile Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, has berated the Niger Delta Development Commission for the poor state and underdevelopment of the Niger More...
How Buhari’s Aide, Paul Boro Defrauds N’Delta Amnesty Students $.7m
Niger Delta Amnesty Boss, Paul Boroh LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Facts have begun to emerge on how the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) and Special Adviser to the President on Niger More...
Okowa Warns against Use of Military as Panacea to Niger Delta Crisis
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has warned against the use of military might in solving the lingering militancy crisis in the Niger Delta region. Okowa said this when he More...
Onuesoke Attacks Masari for Criticising Jonathan
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has reiterated that former President Goodluck Jonathan was 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...
Olu of Warri Distances Itsekiri Nation From Clark Stakeholders’ Meeting
Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, on Thursday distanced the Itsekiri nation from the Chief Edwin Clark-led pan Niger Delta coastal states stakeholders’ More...
Urhobo Militants Declare ‘Operation Crocodile Tears’, Blow Up Oil Pipeline
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At a time when Niger Delta Avengers have declared an end to attacks in the region, an Urhobo militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM, has on Tuesday blown up More...
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