Ibori Allegedly Signs Pact With Tinubu, Nominates Four Four Federal Appointments
Obor (Right) with Fayose and Tinubu during the President-Elect visit to Port Harcourt LAGOS MAY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Chief James Ibori has concluded arrangements to take over More...
Derivation: Delta State Gets Large Share Of Oil Revenue
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Oil-producing states in Nigeria received a whopping sum of N970.2 billion as part of the 13% oil derivative funds in 2022, which is N521.5 billion higher than the N448.7 billion shared More...
CREDAB: South-South Group Resident In Lagos Seeks Greater Cooperation
L-R: Olorogun Goodie Ibru and his wife, Chairman, Sheraton Hotels and Towers; Mr. Sam Egube, Lagos Commissioner for Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget; High Chief Lucky Oyakhere, National Co-ordinator, CREDAB 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...
Tompolo Leads Thousands Of Ijaw Indigenes For The Spiritual Cleansing Of N’Delta
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Thousands of Ijaw people from all over Delta, Bayelsa, Edo and Ondo states converged on Oporoza town, the ancestral headquarters of Gbaramotu Kingdom in the Warri South Local Government More...
South-South Traditional Council Of Chiefs Lagos Dedicates The Year 2020 To Sanwo-Olu
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-South-South Traditional Council of Chiefs Lagos State (SSTCCLS) has dedicated the out going year to Lagos State Governor, His Excellency Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu as More...
N’Delta Leaders Condemn ICPC Interference In Interrogation Of NDDC Staff
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Niger Delta leaders and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) may be heading for showdown over the interrogation of senior management More...
N’Delta Ex-Militants Urge Buhari To Appoint An Urhobo As Cordinator Of Amnesty Programme
LAGOS MA Y 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)- No fewer than one thousand Ex-militants across the Niger-Delta Region have made an appeal and request to the President and Commander -in- Chief of the Arm Forces of Nigeria, Muhammadu More...
S/South Govs Shun Delta Security Summit As Journalists Lament Neglect By Okowa’s Aide
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governors of South-South region were absent at the Regional Police Security summit 2019, with only host Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state and his counterpart, Mr. Godwin More...
‘Presidency Appointments Into NDDC Board Are In Order’
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former member of the House of Representatives, Chief Nduese Essien, has said that the appointments made by the Presidency into the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission More...
Gunmen Abducts Ijaw Monarch’s Mother, Sister
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The mother of the Pere of Kabowei Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Barr. Shadrach Erebulu, Adou III, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday. The mother of the More...
Osu R’ Urhobo Of Lagos Emerges Chair Of S/South Traditional Council Of Chiefs
Chairman of South/South Traditonal Council of Chiefs, Lagos State, Chief Vincent Ahwin LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman of Urhobo Traditional Council of Chief Lagos State, Chief Vincent Ahwin, OSU More...
Court Orders Interim Forfeiture Of Assets And Property Trace To Ngozi Olejeme
Ngozi Olejeme LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu, has ordered the interim forfeiture of assets and properties traced to a former chairman of the Nigeria More...
Sports Festival: Team Delta Dominates Swimming Events, Leads Medal Table
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Team Delta to the 19th National Sports Festival (NSF) in Abuja on Sunday won seven gold medals while Balyesa clinched three silver medals on Day 2 of the swimming competition. The More...
Delta, Rivers, Edo, 9 Other States To Experience Flooding – NEMA, NHISA Warn
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Hydrological Services Agencies (NHISA) have warned that 12 states across the country would soon experience flooding More...
Three Ughelli Women Arrested For Selling Donkey and Vulture Meat In Bayelsa
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Three women from Ughelli, Delta state were apprehended in Yenagoa, by members of the Bayelsa state Vigilante Network led by Godwin Avidi for selling donkey and vulture as meat 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...
Bayelsa: Isaac Boro College Of Education To Be Upgraded To University Status
Seriake Dickson By Amos Okioma LAGOS APRIL 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Isaac Jasper Boro College of Education, Sagbama, Bayelsa State is to be upgraded to a degree awarding institution by automatically becoming a University More...
Soldier, Engineer In Trouble for Alleged Abduction Of A Lady In Warri
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Bayelsa Police have arrested two suspects, a serving soldier and an engineer, for allegedly kidnapping a lady in Warri, Delta on April 4. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that More...
Bayelsa: Electricity Distribution Company Blames Consumers Over Low Power Outage
By Amos Okioma LAGOS APRIL 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) has blamed customers over low power outage in Bayelsa state. The Head, Customers Services, Dr. Godwin Orovwiroro More...
Ibori Weeps At Alamieyesegha’s Graveside
Ibori (Centre) at Alamaseigha geave side By Amos Okioma LAGOS APRIL 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The former governor of Delta State ,Chief James Onanefe Ibori could not hold his emotions as he wept profusely at the graveside More...
Man, 43, Commits Suicide in Bayelsa
By Amos Okioma There was pandemonium in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital as a 43 years man, simply identify as Benbede Kitchen aka GK Benibo committed suicide, leaving behind eighty years old mother, wife and nine More...
Bayelsa Women Journalists Say ‘No’ To Gender Discrimination, Girl Child Violation
By Aherhoke Okioma,Yenagoa LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As Nigerians join the rest of the world to celebrate international women’s day , the Nigerian Association of Women Journalist, NAWOJ, has called on 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...
Buhari Urges Niger Delta Indigenes Embrace Peace and focus on Agriculture
Buhari Amos Okioma, Yenagoa LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the people of the Niger Delta to embrace peace and focus on agriculture for sustainable economic development More...