Boko Haram Are Living With Us, Released Abducted Isoko North Council Vice Chair Alerts Deltans
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Kidnapped Vice Chairman of Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Frank Esiwo Ozue, has regained freedom after four days in captivity. Ozue was kidnapped last More...
Nigerians Are Yet To Feel Impacts Of Buhari’s APC Campaign Promises-Onuesoke
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain and Former Delta State Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has observed that five years into the eight years administration of President More...
Clark Reveals Boko Haram Sent Ex-President Jonathan Letter To Covert To Islam
LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Vanguard newspaper has reported that Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has said Boko Haram sect audaciously sent a message to Dr Goodluck Jonathan when he was President to covert More...
North -East Insecurity: 20,000 Nigerian Take Refuge In Niger
LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTOAY)-Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced no fewer than 20,000 refugees to flee to neighboring Niger since April, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. It voiced concern More...
Delta: Obasanjo Storms Oleh, Raises Alarm Over Insecurity
Obasanjo LAGOS MAY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo stormed Oleh, Delta state yesterday where raised alarm of Boko Haram and herdsmen acts of violence that have enveloped the nation. Obasanjo More...
Boko Haram Attacks Military Post, Kills 11 Soldiers, Seizes Amoured Career, Gun Truck
LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram fighters killed 11 troops and seized weapons in a raid on a military post in the latest such attack in northeast Nigeria, residents and a military source said on Sunday. Gunmen 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...
Children’s Day: Oluremi Tinubu Commends FG On Rescue of 82 Chibok Girls
Senator Oluremi Tinubu LAGOS MAY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos Central Senatorial District has said the recent rescue of 82 of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls is a proof of the commitment More...
Nigeria Govt Pays 2m Euros Ransom For Release Of 82 Chibok Girls-BBC
President Muhammadu Buhari addressing the released 82 Chibok school girls LAGOS MAY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The release of the 82 girls came with a price. Five senior Boko Haram militants were moved from a high security More...
Boko Haram Releases Video Of Purported Chibok Girls
File Photo LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram released a video late on Friday claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of a recent swap deal with the Nigerian government. In More...
Boko Haram: Eighty Abducted Chibok Girls Regain Freedom
LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than eighty schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 were reported to have been released by their abductors. An Online newspaper in Nigeria reported on Saturday, quoting More...
Boko Haram Raid Nigeria Town, Loot Food Supplies, Set Houses Ablaze
Boko Haram’s insurgency has triggered a major food emergency in northeastern Nigeria (AFP Photo/STEFAN HEUNIS) LAGOS MARCH 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)– Boko Haram Islamists have raided a town in restive northeast More...
Nigeria Govt Advises Citizens Against Traveling to U.S. ‘Until Immigration Policy is Clear’
President Buhari LAGOS MARCH 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian government has advised its citizens to suspend any non-urgent travel to the USA until “there is clarity on the new immigration policy,” according to More...
Nigeria Military Save Young Female Suicide Bomber, Kill Another
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian troops on Tuesday saved the life of a young woman strapped with explosives and killed another suicide bomber, apparently primed by Boko Haram Islamic extremists to attack More...
Boko Haram Strikes Borno village, Abducts Seven Women, Kill Three Residents
Shekau LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members on Monday abducted about seven women and killed three other persons when they attacked a village in the southern part of Borno State, More...
46 ‘Severely Injured’ People Remain at Nigeria Bombing Scene-Red Cross
In this image supplied by MSF, smoke rises from a burnt out shelter at a camp for displaced people in Rann, Nigeria, Tuesday Jan. 17, 2017. Relief volunteers are believed to be among the more than 100 dead after More...
Scores Feared Dead as Nigerian Jet Drops Bomb on IDP Camp
File Photo of IDP Camp LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Several people are feared dead after a military plane mistakenly dropped a bomb inside the Rann IDP camp in Borno State. The Rann IDP camp in Kala-balge Local More...
OPC Commends DSS over Arrest of Boko Haram Suspects in Lagos, Warns Saboteurs
OPC Leader, Gani Adams LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Oodua People’s Congress has commended the Department of State Services for its vigilance, which led to the arrest of suspected Boko Haram members in More...
Nigeria Army Orders Preparation for 800 Troops for Gambia
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY) — A Nigerian army memo orders officers to prepare a battalion of 800 troops for a possible military intervention in Gambia, where the longtime leader has refused to accept his More...
Cameroon Uses Witchcraft to Fight Boko Haram, ISIS
Boko Haram LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In the war on terror, guns and bombs just haven’t been enough. So Cameroon is trying spells and curses too. About a year ago, Cameroonian President Paul Biya urged citizens More...
Nigerian Army Gun Down Three Female Suicide Bombers at Adamawa
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Three female suicide bombers were on Wednesday shot dead in Bakin Dutse, Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, officials have said. The officials said the three girls More...
Shekau Appears in New Video, Debunks Nigerian Army Claim of Crushing Boko Haram
Bok Haram Leader,Abubakar Shekau LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a new video to debunk Nigeria’s government claims that the group has been crushed and flushed More...
UPDATE: Death Toll in Boko Haram Twin Bomb Blast Rises to 56, Over 120 Wounded
Shekau Haram,Twin Bomb,Adamawa,Madagali,Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The death toll from Friday’s suicide bombing attacks in Madagali town, Adamawa state, has risen to 56, according to varios More...
Why Over 100 Chibok School Girls May Not Return
In this photo released by the Nigeria State House, Chibok schoolgirls recently freed from Boko Haram captivity are seen during a meeting with Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. More...
Conflicting Reports Trail Release of Nigeria’s Chibok Girls
In this photo released by the Nigeria State House, Chibok schoolgirls recently freed from Boko Haram captivity are seen during a meeting with Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. More...