Social Media, NGOs and the Niger Delta Struggle
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS APRIL 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-When Oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta after half a century of exploration by Shell-BP, and the nation joined the ranks of More...
Ijaw Monarch Urges Federal Govt To Complete East-West Road
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Federal Government has been urged to use the occasion of the dry season to complete the East-West road. Paramount ruler Seimbiri Kingdom, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State, More...
Oil Bunkering Activities In Niger Delta Region: Whose Fault?
By Young Erhiurhobo LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The above subject is timely as the menace of oil bunkering activities has become unbearable for the people of the Niger-Delta region and uncontrollable by the More...
Solutions To Herdsmen Problem In Niger Delta Region
By Young Erhiurhobo LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-It’s widely believed especially among Sociologists that, once you know the causes of a problem, then it’s very much easy to profer solutions or solve More...
Group Honours Shell For N’Delta Youth Development Programmes
L-R: Namibian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Humphrey Geiseb; General Manager External Relations of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), Igo Weli; and Founder and Country Director, More...
Reviewing National Human Right Commission’s Role in the Niger Delta
Oil polluted environment in Niger Delta region By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is a time-honoured suggestion that during a period of rapid economic growth, nations as well as corporate More...
NDDC Pays N70bn Mobilisation Fees On Abandoned Projects In N’Delta
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on abandoned Projects in the Niger Delta has discovered that 1,723 contractors collected N70.495 billion without mobilising to the More...
N’Delta:Shell Deploys State-Of-The-Art Cameras To Track Spills, Crude Theft
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s leading energy giant, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), has deployed state-of-the-art high definition cameras for quick detection More...
UPU Leader, Taiga Urges Support For Okumagba, Other Members Of New NDDC Board
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Olorogun (Dr.) Moses Oghenerume Taiga, President-General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide, has urged all Ethnic Nationalities in the Niger-Delta nay South-South Region to More...
Leaders Protest Protest NDDC Tenure Elongation, TaskS Buhari On Commission’s ACT
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Massive protest rocked the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Friday. Protesters took to the streets with placards, dancing and singing solidarity songs. They are protesting More...
N’Delta Amnesty: It’s Time To Check Mate Dokubo
Dokubo By Eyerin Bature It is on record that the Amnesty Programme was created by late President Yar ‘Adua’s administration for the development, education and empowerment of hostile Niger Delta youths so as More...
N-Delta Group Warns Against Using EFCC To Witch-Hunt Nigerian Investors
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A pro-Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Indigenous Entrepreneurs Forum, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, National Leader of All Progressives Congress APC, Ahmed Bola More...
Uduaghan Promises To Involve Youths In Security Of Oil Installations, Communities
Uduaghan LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has promised to involve youths in the security of oil installations as well as their communities. He equally promised More...
N-Delta Group Condemns New Plot To Blackmail Ibe-Kachikwu
Ibe-Kachikwu LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH(URHOBOTODAY)-A pro- Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Oil Communities Agenda NIDOCA, has advised persons being sponsored to smear the image and reputation of Minister of State for More...
Informant Reveals Why He Instigates Police Raid On E.K.Clark’s Residence
The informant, Ismail Yakubu, narrated how he instigated the raid on the residence of the elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, by armed policemen LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An informant, Ismail More...
Why I Dump PDP For APC-Uduaghan
Uduaghan LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan has formally announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives More...
How Amnesty Programme Aid Fuel Production To 2.2m Barrel Per Day
Amnesty Boss Dokubo By Barr. Mary Oyibocha –Agbajoh LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is on record that the unrest in the Niger Delta Region before 2008 has lead to the low production of oil in the region . This More...
Presidential Amnesty Programme: Empowering Niger Delta Youths With Quality Education
Prof. Charles Dokubo By Onesirosan Agbajoh LAGOS JULY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidential Amnesty programme for the people of Niger Delta today, has become a Success Story and a pointer to the fact that Nigerian More...
Niger Delta: No Trace Of $10b Infrastructure Fund-Stakeholders
Ibe-Kachikwu LAGOS JUNE 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Close to two years after the Federal Government launched the $10b Infrastructure Fund to stimulate development in the Niger Delta, there is no trace of the fund anywhere.In More...
Two Modular Refineries’ll Begin Operations In N’Delta Next Year
Ibe Kachikwu LAGOS MAY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Two modular refineries in the Niger Delta will commence operations in the next one year, the Federal Government announced on Wednesday. It also stated that a directive was More...
Nigerian Students, NUPENG Accuse FG Of Neglecting FUPRE
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)The Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE) in Delta State is being under-funded by the Federal Government. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), and the More...
Boko Haram: Ijaw Youths Kick Against Approval Of $1bn For Military
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaw of the Niger Delta have kicked against the Federal Government’s approval of $1 billion for the purchase of military equipment to combat Boko Haram in the North East. In More...
Buhari Fires Paul Boroh, Appoints Dokubo As New Amnesty Program Boss
Paul Boroh LAGOS MARCH 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo as the new Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for former Niger More...
Buhari Receives Olu Of Warri, Accuses Sagay Of Stepping On Toes
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari says Itse Sagay, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-corruption, is stepping on many toes in the bid to defend his administration. He More...
Energy Impact Investor, All On Seals Three Off-Grid Investments For Niger Delta
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Nigerian off-grid energy investment company, All On, has announced financial close with three firms for accelerated access to affordable and sustainable energy sources in the More...
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