Subsidy: Price Hits N520 in Edo, Delta, Motorists Lament As Drivers Hike Fare By 100%
LAGOS MAY 31ST (URHOBTODAY)-Fuel pump price is now between N400 and N500 in Edo and Delta, as long queues on Tuesday morning, resurfaced in the few filling stations opened for business. The News Agency of Nigeria More...
Delta: Woman Whose 11-Year-Old Son Died In Drum In Asaba Petitions AIG
IGP Alkali Baba LAGOS MARCH 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A civilian staff of the Nigerian Police Force, Christy Zaniatu Garuba, has petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of police (AIG), in charge of Zone 5, Benin city, More...
Shell Appeals Against Judgment Abolishing Gas Flaring In Urhobo Community
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has filed an appeal challenging the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, which ordered the company More...
How To Prepare Delicious Urhobo Owoh Soup
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Owoh Soup is a classic native soup that is common with Urhobo indigenes in Delta State of southern part of Nigeria. Owoh soup is also prepare by the Benin people More...
Origin And Socio-Economical Life Style Of Isoko People
Credit: Bella Naija By Frank Chukwu LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The political lifestyle and structure of the Isoko people is built around age groups, political sets, religious groups and family. However, just More...
Panic In Urhobo Community Over Alleged Murder Of Wedding Guest By Vigilante
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A man identified as Izoma Gadafe has been reportedly shot to death by vigilante. The incident occurred in Okpara Community, Ethiope-East Local Government Area of Delta State. The 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...
Itsekiri People Protest Against Police Interference In Olu Of Warri Crisis
LAGS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Itsekiri people on Friday stormed the Zone 5 Police command in Benin to protest continued police involvement in the crisis rocking the Olu of Warri stool. Armed with placards More...
A Brief Walk Into The History Of Urhobo Ethnic Group Of Nigeria
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Urhobo people are major inhabitants of Delta State, bounded by the Isoko people to the South East; by the Itsekiris to the West; by the Ijaws to the South, and by the Ukwuani More...
Six-Year-Old Girl Abducted In Abraka Found Roaming In Benin Street
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-six-year-old girl, simply identified as Courage, who was kidnapped in Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, has been found in Benin City, Edo State, after More...
How Unenurhie Was Relegated To The Background In Urhobo Nation
By Young Erhiurhoro LAGOS MAY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Without doubt, since the pro-independence political testings of Nigeria’s democracy till date, there had been social injustice, political marginalization, More...
Delta Governor: Okowa, Ogboru Get Final Judgment Today
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta state governor and candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa would know his fate tomorrow whether he is the authentic winner of the February 2019 More...
Anaughe Confirms Court Declaration Of Oharisi As Winner Of Ughelli North Constituency II Election
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moses Anaughe has confirmed that the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State has confirmed Hon. Eric Oharisi of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Ughelli More...
Warri Medical Doctor Warns On Dangers Of Drinking Cold Water
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Warri-based Pediatrician, Dr Ovo Ogbinaka, on Tuesday in Benin cautioned against excessive consumption of cold water due to its adverse effects on human health. Ogbinaka, More...
How ‘Special Panel’ Of Appeal Court Rescued Omo-Agege To Position Him For DSP Position
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Fresh facts emerged at the weekend how a specially assembled panel of the Court of Appeal Justices was imposed on the Benin Division of the Federal Court of Appeal with a mandate to More...
Ogboru Suffers Another Defeat As A’Court Strikes Out Candidacy Nullification Appeal
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State today struck out Chief Great Ogboru’s joinder appeal challenging the Asaba High court judgment of March 18th, 2019 which nullified More...
Odion’Rode Of Evwreni Kingdom Celebrates Marriage In Grand Style
By Young Erhiurhoro LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was celebration of royalties of mixed cultures between Evwreni Kingdom and Benin Kingdom as the Odion’Rode of Evwreni Kingdom, His Highness, Ebruphiyor More...
EFCC Recovers $9.2m In Former -NNPC Director’s Home
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday told a committee of the House of Representatives that $9.2 million and 750,000 More...
Two Nigerian Army Personnel Indicted in kidnap of CBN Governor’s Wife
Margret Emefiele LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Two Nigerian Army personnel have been indicted in the kidnap saga of the wife of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. A report monitored in Premium Times had 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...
Residents Panic Over Heavy Military Presence in Warri
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was a widespread apprehension among residents of Warri and its environs in Delta State on Monday, following the deployment of troops and equipment in the ongoing military training More...
Adieu Stephen Keshi
Stephen Keshi LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Nigerian football icon Stephen Okechukwu Keshi died suddenly in the early hours of Wednesday in Benin City, Edo state. The former international football player and coach More...
Delta Gov Election :Appeal Court President Denies Report of Sack of Five Judges
President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa [above], has refuted an online report that she sacked a five-man More...
Delta:Retired Civil Servant, Wife Nab Writing WASSCE for Their Children in Asaba
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-One Fredrick Omorieve, a retired federal civil servant and his wife, Evelyn Omorieve, have been arrested by officers of the Delta State Police Command in Asaba, More...
World Bank Ranks Nigeria as One of World’s Worst Business Destinations
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite improving five steps on its ranking last year, Nigeria emerged one of the worst business destinations, the 2015 World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking has showed. Nigeria More...