Okuama Crisis: Soldiers Invade E.K.Clark Country Home In Kiagbodo By Land, Air
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin has disclosed that Soldiers invaded and raided his country home, Kiagbodo, Delta State by land and More...
Militants Blow Up Afiesere Flow Station Over Surveillance Contact Awarded To Omo-Agege’s Junior Brother
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Petroleum Development Company, NPDC has been forced to switch off its Afiesere flow station. The development, according to sources, was a sequel to the bombing that took More...
Militants Accuse Okowa Of Mismanaging 13% Derivation Funds, Threatens Return To Creeks
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A militant group, the Creek Dragons yesterday accused the Delta State Government of mismanaging of 13 percent derivation funds and relegating Ijaws to the background. The group said More...
How Amnesty Programme Aid Fuel Production To 2.2m Barrel Per Day
Amnesty Boss Dokubo By Barr. Mary Oyibocha –Agbajoh LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is on record that the unrest in the Niger Delta Region before 2008 has lead to the low production of oil in the region . This More...
Tension In Niger Delta As Soldiers, Suspected Militants Clash…4 Killed
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)- There is palpable tension in Oluasiri community in Nembe local government area of Bayelsa state as Nigerian Army and militants clash. Meanwhile the people of Oluasiri have cried out More...
Four Soldiers, Militants Killed As Army Begin Manhunt Of Killers Of Beheaded Soldier
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Four soldiers and some militants have been reportedly killed in a bloody clash between militants and soldiers in an ongoing military operation to fish out those behind More...
Suspected Militants Overwhelmed Police, Kidnap Two Principals, Six Students In Lagos School
Worried parents at the school premise LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)- For the umpteenth time, gunmen suspected to be militants yesterday morning invaded the Lagos State Model College, Igbo Nla, Epe, abducting two More...
Militants On rampage In Lagos, Kill Scores of Soldiers, Police in Ikorodu
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Militants are on rampage in Lagos killing scores of soldiers and police in Ikorodu area. The militants struck overnight at Woodland Estate area, Ishawo in Ikorodu. Urhobotoday source More...
Nigeria Vice President, Osinbajo to Lead FG Fact-Finding Team to N’Delta Areas
Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osibanjo LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidency has constituted a fact-finding team, headed by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to traverse the beleaguered area More...
Attack On Oil Facilities: Buhari Begs N’Delta Militants For Negotiation
Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday appealed to the Niger Delta militants destroying oil installations in the region to sheath their swords and come for negotiation with More...
JUST IN: Suspected Militants Raid Lagos School, Kidnap Principals, Students
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Report filtering in from House of Representatives, says kidnappers, on Thursday morning, stormed Lagos State Model College, Igbo Nla in Epe, Lagos. The assailants, suspected to be More...
Inspector General of Police Visits Lagos, to Deploy Gunboats, Other Maritime Assets Against Militants
Lagos State Governor, Ambode (r) welcoming Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim to Lagos LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Following unabated activitees of of pipeline vandals and insecurity in Lagos State, the More...
Military Dispels Rumour of Killing Innocent People as Offensive Against Lagos, Ogun Militants Continues
LAGOS JULY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigeria military has dispelled rumour of killing innocent people as offensive against pipeline oil thieves operating at Ishawo, Igando and Igbolomu areas of Ikorodu in Lagos, More...
Suspected Militants Kidnap Redeemed Pastor During Church Service in Lagos
General Overseer of Redeemed Pastor Adeboye LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was confusion in a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God at Santos bus stop in the Isawo, Ikorodu, Lagos State, on Sunday More...
Massive Spill as Avengers Bomb Shell Facilities Near Warri
,Shell,Oil Spill,Soldier LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The dreaded militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, have once again blown up crude oil trunkline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria More...
Residents Flee Lagos Community as Suspected Militants Abducted Monarch, Woman, Kill 2
Oba Goriola Oseni LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents living in Iba Community in Lagos are leaving the community in droves for fear being abducted by suspected militants whom Urhobotoday gathered kidnapped More...
Police Abort Militants Invasion of Lagos, Arrest Two with Cache of Ammunition
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni LAGOS JULY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Lagos State Police command has aborted invasion of Lagos communities b suspected militants arresting two suspected militants More...
Lagos Attack: Police Begins Aggressive Manhunt for Suspected Militants
IGP Ibrahim Idris LAGOS JUNE 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Lagos State Police Command has commenced aggressive manhunt for suspected militants who invaded Igbolomu and Ishawo community in Ikorodu last Friday and unleashed More...
New Militant Group Threatens to Bomb Third Mainland Bridge, Bonga Oil field, Onitsha–Asaba Bridge
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A new militant group, the Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta (ADFND) has vowed to bomb the Bonga Oil Field, Third Mainland Bridge and the Onitsha – Asaba bridge among others More...
Militants Invade Ogun Community, Kill 15
One of the victim LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Imushin community in the Ogijo area of Ogun State has been thrown into mourning after no fewer than 15 residents were reportedly killed on Friday evening by armed More...
Buhari Makes ‘U Turn’ Cancels Trip to Niger Delta over Assassination Threat
Buhari LAGOS JUNE 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari scheduled one-day trip to Ogoniland, Rivers state Senegal for the flag off of Niger Delta clean up has been canceled. A Presidential source told SaharaReporters More...
Niger Delta Avengers Threaten More Attacks on Oil Installations, Demand Release of Kanu
LAGOS MAY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The renewed attacks on oil and gas facilities in the Niger Delta region may in no way be nearing an end following the recent threat by the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). The group has More...
I’m Ready to Face EFCC-Tompolo
Tompolo LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) a former militant leader, has said that he is ready to face the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prove his innocence. Tompolo, More...
Ex-Bayelsa Speaker, LG Chairman, Others Escape Death as Suspected Militants Attack Ijaw Community
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-All hell was let loose in Ekeremor today less than 24 hours to the rescheduled elections in certain constituencies in Bayelsa as suspected militants took over the community, unleashing 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...