Extortion: Delta Lawmakers Call For Dismantling Of Police, DSS, JTF, Other Illegal Road Blocks
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State House of Assembly has frowned at the increasing prevalence of illegal roadblocks and extortion of commuters and traders on roads in the state. The lawmakers, in More...
Soldiers Invade Burutu Community In Search Of Kidnappers, Set Houses Ablaze
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Military Joint Task Force, JTF, yesterday, invaded Bolou-Tubegbe community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, reportedly in search of kidnappers. Men of the 222 More...
Arrested Notorious N’Delta Militant Kingpin, Karowei Dies In JTF Custody
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Arrested notorious Niger Delta militant Peregbakumo Oyawerikumo, alias Karowei who was arrested on Thursdaywas alleged to have died in the custody of Joint Military Task Force More...
Delta: Two Killed In Gun Duel As JTF Nab Kidnap Kingpin In Sapele
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The joint military patrol team attached to the 19 battalion of the Nigeria Army in Sapele, Delta State has arrested a kidnap kingpin identified as Robinson Okotie. While the Okotie’s More...
JTF Arrests Rivers Community Leader For Shutting AGIP’s 11 Oil Wells
By Amos Okioma LAGOS MARCH 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Mr Chikeobi Alali, a community leader in Ogba Ndoni Egbema Local Government Area of Rivers has been arrested for allegedly disrupting production at an oilfield operated More...
Top Commander of N’Delta Greenland Justice Mandate Nab With His Four Foot Soldiers
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A top commander of the Urhobo/Isoko militant group, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), has been nabbed by the operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the oil-rich More...
Reps to Investigate Destruction of ”Illegal” Refineries by JTF in Niger Delta
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The House of Representatives on Tuesday commenced investigation into activities of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta. NAN reports that the house is investigating More...
Delta: 3 Die, Others Injured, Arms Recovered as JTF, Militants Clash in Burutu Community
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Three persons were confirmed killed while several others sustained injuries when the Joint Task Force (Operation Pulo Shield) engaged suspected militants in a gun duel in Delta More...
Gunmen in Army Uniform Kidnap Ex-Bayelsa State First Lady
Ex-Bayelsa First Llady Martha Ibinabo LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Gunmen in army uniform have kidnapped the former acting First Lady of Bayelsa State, Mrs. Martha Binabo. Martha, the wife of a former acting Governor More...
Again Female Suicide Bomber Kills 25 In Maiduguri Market
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At least 25 people have been killed in the latest suicide bombing in Maiduguri, a local source told SaharaReporters. A female suicide bomber was seen entering the largest northeast More...
Boko Haram Linked With Illegal Trade Of Human Organs – GPA
Shekau LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (The Global Prolife Alliance Council on Health and Society is alleging that Nigeria’s Terrorists Group Boko Haram are also in the business of harvesting human organs just like ISIS are More...
Explosion Rocks Kano Again
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An explosion has occurred in Kano, Kano State again. The bomb went off on Friday evening in Hotoro, near the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation mega filling station in the More...
JTF Intercepts Sewage Truck Laden with Stolen Crude Oil in Delta
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Joint Military Task Force has intercepted sewage truck laden with about 12, 000 litres of substances suspected to be stolen crude along Ibada Amukpe community in Sapele Council More...
Gunmen Attack Bayelsa’s Community, Kidnap Worker, Move Cash, Food stuff
JTF Patrol boat in search of gunmen LAGOS JUNE 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some unknown gunmen reportedly attacked Zion community of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, in Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria on Saturday, 28 More...
Heavy Shooting as Boko Haram Fighters and Soldiers Clash over Control of Maiduguri
Boko Haram Leader LAGOS MARCH 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Reports from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, indicated that the town is in turmoil as there is heavy fighting between soldiers and Boko Haram fighters for the More...
Delta: Fresh Gun Battle Threatens Ugborodo Peace Deal
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Fierce fighting between rival youth groups in Ugborodo, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, is threatening the peace deal in community, THEWILL can report. This More...
Gunmen Kidnap Jonathan’s Septuagenarian Cousin in Otuoke
President Goodluck Jonthan LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A first cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Inengite Nitabai has been kidnapped by gunmen numbering about 10, who broke his house in Otuoke, More...
Rivers: Alleged Aides of Sekibo, Evans Bipi Arrested With Arms
Hon Evans Bipi LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) yesterday in Rivers State arrested six youths bearing seven AK47 rifles around Ekporo Road on their way to Ogu. Among them was Daniel More...
Group Raises Alarm over Militarisation of Urhoboland, Demands Withdrawal of JTF
LAGOS JUANUARY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)—THE Urhobo Nationalists Movement, UNM, has decried what it alleged to be the heavy militarisation of Urhobo nation by security agents. National Chairman of UNM, Mr Mumakai Unagha, More...
Delta: JTF Denies Looting Kokori Community, Appeals for Cooperation
Commander, 3 Battalion Warri, Lieutenant Colonel Ifeanyi Otu LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY) -Residents of Kokori in Delta state have been called upon to cooperate with the troops of Sector 1, Operation Pulo More...
New Report Shows JTF Neck-Deep in Niger Delta Oil Theft
A vessel mv sea express laden with some 2,500 tones of crude impounded by joint task force in the niger delta, Operation Pulo Shield at Okuboto creek in Bayelsa state. In addition to providing security cover for More...
Group Petitions Defence HQ over Soldiers Extortion, Harassment of Indigenes in Bayelsa
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)- The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in Bayelsa State has petitioned the Nigerian Army Defence Headquarters over alleged misconduct and extortion by some soldiers in the state. The More...
JTF Smashes Robbery Gang, Arrest Oil Thieves in Niger Delta
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta said on Thursday that it had captured a gang of sea robbers in the waterways in Rivers State. The JTF Media Coordinator, Lt.-Col. More...
Fracas in Rivers House of Assembly as Amaechi Foils Attempt to Impeach Speaker
LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY) The Rivers State House of Assembly was this afternoon (local time) thrown into chaos as a few anti-Governor Rotimi Amaechi legislators and militants, who are alleged supporters of More...
Warri North crisis: Gunmen Flee as JTF, police Go on Their Trail
Warring youths are on the run LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY) Members of Egbema Radical Group, ERG, principally hoodlums and ex-militants, who killed about 12 Itsekiri persons and razed three communities in Warri North More...