A Festschrift in Honour of Prof G.G. Darah at 70
Prof G.G. Darah LAGOS JULY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Gabriel Godini Darah, Professor of English at Delta State University, former Chairman of the Editorial Board of The Guardian, and eloquent public intellectual will turn More...
CONFAB: Panacea to Nigeria Total Independence
By Shaguolo Amos LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-If Nigeria as a national state must move forward there are fundamental issues our leaders and the citizens must address with all sense of sincerity with immediate More...
Lagos LG Boss, Adewale Calls for True Federalism, Says APC’ll Make the Change
Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Chairman, Comrade Ayodele Adewale LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (URHOBOTODAY0-The Executive Chairman of Amowo- Odofin Local Government, Comrade Ayodele Adewale has called for the practice of true More...
CONFAB Calls for Scrapping of State Independent Electoral Commission
LAGOS JULY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Conference today resolved to scrap the States Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC), recommending that its functions be transferred to the Independent National Electoral More...
Fear Grips FG over Absence of CONFAB delegates at Plenary Session
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Fact have emerged that the Federal Government may have been expressing fear over the absence of more than half of the delegates at the ongoing National Conference plenary sessions, More...
National Dialogue: A Panacea for Growth and Development
By Prof. Godini G. Darah Introduction: The National Conference convened in Abuja on March 17, 2014, is the 17th of such exercises in Nigeria since 1914 when Nigeria was amalgamated into a single country by the More...
National Dialogue: A Panacea for Growth and Development
By Prof. Godini G. Darah Introduction: The National Conference convened in Abuja on March 17, 2014, is the 17th of such exercises in Nigeria since 1914 when Nigeria was amalgamated into a single country by the More...
CONFAB Declares War on Gas Flaring
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Consideration of the report of the Committee on Energy was completed on Monday with a resolution by the Conference that the powers of the minister to grant exemption to gas flaring More...
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Clark Raises Alarm over N’Delta Environmental Degradation, Says the Region may Cease to Exist
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A National Conference delegate, Edwin Clark, has warned that unless something urgent is done to salvage the Niger Delta environment; the region might soon cease to More...
CONFAB Aim at Actualisation of Jonathan’s 2015 Election Plan-N’Delta Youths
Preident Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Niger Delta youth say National Conference shows an agenda for the actualization of the 2015 re-election plan of President Goodluck Jonathan. Some youth from More...
Another Delegate Slumps at CONFAB
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-For the second time, another delegate but this time a male delegate slumped on Tuesday at the ongoing national conference in Abuja. He is Abudlmumin Abubakar, a former Assistant Inspector More...
Confab Delegates Focus on True Federalism
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The call for restructuring of Nigeria into true federalism with the different geo-political zones serving as federating units received further boosts on Wednesday as different More...
CONFAB: Drama as Kutigi, Bakare Clash again over Religious Recitation
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman of the National Conference, Idris Kutigi, and Lagos-based pastor, Tunde Bakare, again clashed over the use of religious recitation during Tuesday’s plenary session. Mr. More...
CONFAB Delegate Caught Playing Scrabble during Deliberation
CONFAB delegate caught playing scrabble during deliberation LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A delegate at the ongoing national conference in Abuja was captured by the sharp lens of photojournalists playing scrabble More...
Confab: Delegates Seek Death Penalty for Corrupt Officials
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delegates at the ongoing national conference yesterday advocated death by hanging for corrupt officials to tackle the growing incidence of graft and large scale theft of public funds More...
Confab Delegates Canvass for New Constitution, Fiscal Federalism
LAGOS MARCH 2ND(URHOBOTODAY)-Delegates at the National Conference on Tuesday canvassed for fiscal federalism and a new constitution for the country. The delegates made the call at plenary while deliberating on More...
How Sleeping Delegate Died in Hotel Room-CONFAB Sec
Late Hamma Misau LAGOS MARCH 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Secretariat of the ongoing Nationa How Sleeping Delegate Died in Hotel Room- CONFAB Secl Conference has said that the death of one of the delegates, Hamma Misau, More...
Urhobo Nation and Her Three Core Enemies
By Godwin Etakibuebu LAGOS MAR CH 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE President inaugurated the National Conference in Abuja on Monday. By so doing, he has fulfilled another promise of “this nebulously packaged Transformation More...
CONFAB: Delegates Reject Move to Gag Media
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delegates to the National Conference on Tuesday rejected proposed powers of the leadership to revoke accreditation of any media that publishes “unfair and offensive” report. The More...
CONFAB: Darah Advocates Resource Control, Power Decentralisation
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Prof. Gordini Darah, a delegate representing Delta State at the National Conference has reminded his fellow members at the the ongoing National conference on the need for resource More...
Revisiting Urhobo Stand on National Conference
By Dr Ighorodje The UPU memorandum to the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference is profoundly thought provoking and illuminating. At page two, paragraph three, it stated: “Some states with population More...
Pastor Bakare Reacts to Islamic Group Attack, Says He is not against Islamic Religion
Pastor Tunde Bakare LAGOS MARCH 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The General Overseer of Later Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said his comment on the floor of the National Conference Tuesday that Chairman Idris Kutigi More...
Accusations, Complains, Demands Trail First Plenary Session of National CONFAB
CONFAB Chairman, Idris Kutigi LAGOS MARCH 19th (URHOBOTODAY)-Delegates Ita- Giwa, and Nuhu Sanusi, say many of the problems Nigeria is facing were caused by some of the same delegates to the National Conference More...
National Conference is the Urgent Need of the Time
Obarisis (Barr.) Ovie Omo-Agege By Obarisi (Barr.) Ovie Omo-Agege There is no doubt that Nigeria is a country that is so remarkably blessed with great material and human resources but is too structurally defective More...
Northern Elders Reject CONFAB, Declare Conference Illegitimate
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has dismissed the National Conference, which is planned to commence next week, saying it “lacks a constitutional basis or any form of legitimacy More...