Onuesoke Calls For Location Of Foreign Visa Offices In Other Parts Of Nigeria
LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain and former Delta State Gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has appealed to foreign embassies in Nigeria to locate visa offices in More...
Buhari Excludes Delta, Lagos, Borno From National Cash Transfer Of Covid-19
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Lagos, Borno, Delta states have been excluded from the National Cash Transfer for COVID-19, while the North West zone gets the biggest share.The National Cash Transfer Office (NCTO) 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...
Chibok Girls Revealed Role Played By Politicians in Their Disappearance
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The 21 recently released Chibok girls have told a clergy man of how politicians played a major role in their disappearance for over two years. The girls have revealed details of More...
Hungry Refugees in IDP’s Camp Accuse Nigerian Officials of Stealing Their Food
Starving refugees in IDP camp in Borno State LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian officials have been accused of stealing food from desperate people who are living in camps after fleeing the terrorist group More...
Group Drags EFCC to Federal Character Commission over Lopsided Recruitment from North
Destiny Ugorji LAGOS MAY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Non-Governmental organization, Media Initiative against Injustice, Violence and Corruption-MIIVOC, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and More...
Buhari Raises Alarm, Says Terrorists Returning to Embarrass Govt
Buhari LAGOS JAAURY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday raised the alarm that having lost the war to the nation’s armed forces, insurgents are desperately seeking ways of returning to the society More...
Boko Haram: Trading Bomb Maker for Chibok Girls
By Philip Obaji Jr. LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY) — Ever since Muhammadu Buhari took office last May as Nigeria’s fifth democratically elected president, he has made the war against insurgency in the country’s More...
December Deadline: Military Forms Special Brigade to Fight Boko Haram in Borno State
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military on Monday unveiled a new task force specifically placed in the country’s northeastern Borno state to combat terrorist group Boko Haram. Lt. Gen. Tukur More...
Pilot Dies as Nigerian Air Force Fighter Jet Crashes in Adamawa
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Nigerian Air Force (NAF801) F7-Ni fighter jet returning to the base from an interdicted mission crashed due to bad weather, an official statement said Saturday night. A statement More...
Bornu Blast: Residents Dispute 54 Official Casualties, Say Actual Dead Figure were 85
Boko Haram leader Shekau LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)- – Locals in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on Monday said at least 85 people were killed in a series of bombings blamed on Boko Haram, disputing More...
Nigerian Military’s Victory Claim over Boko Haram is Fraudulent-US Diplomat
John Campbell Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has said that talks of victories by Nigerian troops against Boko Haram, must be taken with caution, even skepticism, especially with the difficulty in More...
800 Nigerians Killed in 100 Days of Buhari’s Presidency- Report
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Buharimeter, a platform monitoring the implementation of the electoral promises of President Muhammadu Buhari, has reported that about 800 Nigerians were murdered by the extremist More...
Security: US,UK,Canada Warn Citizens to Stay Clear of Twenty Two States in Nigeria
David Cameon LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-In spite of the weakening of Boko Haram’s capacity to carry out large-scale attacks against civilians and soldiers by Nigerian troops in the North-East, the United More...
UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon to Visit Nigeria on Sunday
UN Secreatry-General,Ban Ki-Moon expected in Nigeria on Sunday LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria will play host to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who will be in the country from tomorrow, More...
Borno, Yobe Governors Raise Alarm, Says Boko Haram is in Possession of Five Local Govt Areas
LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram Islamists are still holding on to some territories in Nigeria’s troubled northeast, state governors from the region said on Thursday, after the military claimed More...
Boko Haram Militants Take Over Damaturu-Maiduguri Road
LAGOS JULY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Reports reaching PREMIUM TIMES say Boko Haram militants have taken over the highway linking Maiduguri and Damaturu, capitals of Borno and Yobe states respectively. A police officer More...
Buhari’s First Blunder as Nigeria’s President
President Muhammau Buhari LAGOS MAY 30TH URHOBOTODAY)-A political analyst, Mr. Ifeduba ThankGod has criticised the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate the central command of the military to Maiduguri, More...
Aftermath of Boko Haram Attack, Nigeria Military Imposes 24-Hour Curfew in Maiduguri
LAGOS MAY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital following Wednesday’s attempted attack by the Boko Haram insurgents on the city. The More...
MASSOB Insists Jega Must Go, Threatens to Resist Election in the South
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has demanded the immediate removal of Chairman the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru More...
Maiduguri Attack: President’s Team Trapped
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-—Some security personnel, journalists and the medical team, who accompanied President Goodluck Jonathan on his campaign tour of Maiduguri, Borno State, were still trapped in Maiduguri, More...
NYSC Suspends Orientation Programmes in Six States Over Ebola
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Thursday announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programmes of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation Course in six states More...
Exposed: How Senator Ndume Funds Boko Haram and Death of Shekau
Boko Haram Leader, Shekau LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-New leads are emerging on the involvement of Senator Ali Ndume representing Borno South Senatorial District at the Nigerian Senate with the Islamic terror More...
Suspected Boko Haram Gunmen Abduct 20 Women in Community Near Chibok
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected Islamist gunmen abducted about 20 women from a nomadic settlement, according to Bloomberg News, near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls More...
Boko Haram Fighters in Nigerian Army Uniforms Slaughter Hundreds of Borno Villagers
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (URHOBOTODAY) — When men wearing military fatigues and carrying weapons showed up in pickup trucks, villagers thought Nigerian soldiers had finally come to protect them from Boko Haram. But it More...