2023:Ede Dafinone Joins Delta Central Senatorial Race, Promises To Put Urhobo First
LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Okakuro Ede Omueya Dafinone has declared his intention to contest for the position of Delta Central Senatorial position in 2023 under All Progressive Congress (APC) party. Dafinone who More...
Warri Urhobos Urge INEC To Ignore Itsekiris Call For Reverse Of Current 12 Wards Structure To 10
Chief Westham Adehor JP and Olorogun Victor Okumagba JP addressing the Journalists in Abuja on why INEC should not yeild to Itsekiri People agitation to reverse back from 12 to the Oppressive and Unjust 10 ward More...
2023: Urhobos Resident In Bayelsa Travel En Mass To Delta For Registration, Collection Of Voters Cards
By Amos Odeh. LAGOS MARCH 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ahead of the 2023 Governorship election in Delta State, the Urhobo Community in Bayelsa State has started mobilizing its members to their various communities to register More...
Growing Up As An Urhobo Man
By Akpesiri Emorhokpor LAGOS MARCH 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-We grew up with the mindset that most of my relatives were witches & wizards. Those in the village all have witchcraft. This is what my environment More...
The Position Of Women In Urhobo, Isoko Rural Communities
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-I’m writing this piece to celebrate and commemorate this year’s “International Women’s Day” as established by the UNESCO, an arm of the United Nations More...
Delta 2023: Not Urhobo And Not Okowa Governor
By Basil Okoh LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Urhobo caucus of the PDP in Delta State made an egregious political misstep by setting out, contrary to good counsel, to implement a damaging ethnic political More...
Urhobo Indigenes Cry Out As Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Take Over Their Community
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents of Port-Avwon, a community in Uwheru Kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, who fled the town following invasion recently, by suspected herdsmen, More...
Delta Gov. 2023: Urhobo Deserve A Fresh Face
By Basil Okoh LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Kenneth Gbagi just issued his own curses and judgement on the candidates from ethnic groups other than Urhobo to govern Delta State from 2023. He called their ambition More...
Taboos Urhobo Married Women Must Avoid
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Urhobo the fifth major tribe in Nigeria is located in Delta Central of Delta State. The tribe is known over its strict cultural life style which include strict cultural More...
Delta Govt Enforces Measure For Lasting Peace Between Warring Urhobo, Ijaw Communities
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Government of Delta State on Thursday, 16th December, 2021 commenced the demarcation of the disputed land between Aladja in Udu Local Government Area and Ogbe Ijoh in Warri More...
2023: Okowa Makes U Turn On Ijaw Candidate, Re-Affirms Commitment To Urhobo
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state has reversed his earlier decision to pick his successor from the Ijaw in the Delta South zone, a move that pitched him against power blocs More...
Delta: Five Feared Dead In Renewed Crisis Between Urhobo and Ijaw Communities
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than five persons were reported to have lost their lives when Urhobo community of Aladja and their neighbouring Ijaw community of Ogbeh-Ijaw clashed in a renewed battled.. Though More...
Delta 2023 Guber: Okowa Seals Urhobo Hope, Debunks Rotation Agreement
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The look of things to come in the Delta State 2023 governorship election is gradually unfolding and clearer as the general election year inches closer. First, the thorny issue More...
Waado City: Concept Of Urhobo Megacity From Warri Is Dead On Arrival
By Dr. Emmanuel Ojameruaye LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-On this forum, there has been a suggestion to create an Urhobo mega city from Warri City as a way of resolving the age-long controversy over the ownership More...
Urhobo, Benin Bond Strengthened As Urhobotoday Publisher Gives Out Daughter
The new couple. LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was a display of class, culture and fashion on Sunday as family, friends and well-wishers thronged out in their numbers to celebrate with the families of Veteran More...
Delta 2023 And The Need To Retain Rotational Governorship
By Johnson Tamarakuro LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-DELTA State was greeted by misgivings when it was created in 1991 by the General Ibrahim Babangida administration. The many ethnic groups which constituted the More...
Delta Gov 2023: Storm Gathers As Search For Okowa’s Successor Heightens
LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ahead of the 2023 governorship election, the storms are already gathering in the multi-ethnic and oil rich Delta State, particularly within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This More...
Delta 2023: Lawyers Lead In The Scramble To Replace Okowa
LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-YEAR 2023 is far-flung to many people, but to politicians, principally governorship contenders in Delta State, who want to take over from incumbent Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, More...
Urhobo Monarch’s Daughter Emerges First Black Mayor In Ireland
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A United Kingdom-based Nigerian Princess, Mrs. Uruemu Omeru-Adejinmi, has made history, with her election as the new Cathaoirleach of Longford Municipal District in Ireland. She is More...
Delta Tribe Where Husband, Children Would Die If The Wife Commits Adultery
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-This particular tradition is common with Isoko and Urhobo people of Delta state. Where the adulterous ways of a wife results in the kids of the marriage falling ill, sometimes resulting More...
The Power Of ‘Okugbe’
By Francis Ewherido LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As a chartered insurance practitioner, the enormous power of Okugbe (unity, togetherness and pulling of resources together) naturally resonates with me. How do More...
Delta Gov. 2023: On Zoning We Stand
By Edward Ogheneakpobo LAGOS APRIL 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in power in Delta State since 1999. There were no magical powers to winning all the gubernatorial elections. The More...
Ibori Loot: Delta Group, ‘No Sidon Look’ Storm Asaba, Accuses Okowa Of Conniving With FG
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of ‘Sidon Look’ recently stormed Asaba, Delta State while protesting against the Federal government plan to use former Delta Governor, Chief James Ibori More...
Urhobo Community In Lagos Mourns Prof Peter Ekeh, Calls For His Immortalisation
Prof Ekeh LAGOS MARCH 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Members of Urhobo Community in Lagos have joined others in Urhobo nation,the academic sector in Nigeria and abroad in mourning the demise of a renowned Urhobo scholar, writer More...
Urhobo Must Produce Delta Governor In 2023-Olorogun Moses Taiga
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As 2023 general election approaches, the President-General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide, Olorogun Moses Taiga has assured Urhobo Nation that it will work with all More...