Obasanjo Denies Reports of His Present in PDP Meeting, Says Its Ploy to Score Cheap Political Gains
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday denied media reports suggesting he attended an event convened by his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party. in Abuja saying it More...
‘Obasanjo Not for PDP Meeting, But Zero Hunger Programme’
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja on Friday to attend a meeting of Zero Hunger in Africa-Nigeria chapter and not a meeting of the Peoples Democratic More...
JUST IN: Uninvited Obasanjo Storms Venue of PDP Convention Committee Inauguration
FORMER PRESIDENT/FORMER CHAIRMAN PDP BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (M), SIGHTED AT THE SHEHU MUSA YAR’ADUA CENTRE, VENUE OF THE INAUGURATION OF PDP NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE IN ABUJA ON FRIDAY More...
Revealed: What Obasanjo Discusses With Buhari During His Visit to Presidential Villa
Nuhari and Obasanjo President Muhammadu Buhari and Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, on Monday held a private meeting at the presidential villa in Abuja. The former president arrived at the villa about 12:50pm, More...
JUST IN: Buhari, Obasanjo Currently in Crucial Closed Door Meeting
Buhari and Obasanjo LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo are currently in a crucial close meeting at the Presidential Villa. The two met behind closed doors More...
I Received $2m From Abacha Through Gwarzo- Jerry Rawlings
Jerry Rawlings of Ghana LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Jerry John Rawlings has rejected claims that he received $5 million from former Nigerian President Sani Abacha. Mr. Rawlings while speaking More...
Buhari Meets Jonathan over Niger Delta Avengers
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari met with his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday night at the presidential villa. Report says the meeting is likely to be about the Niger Delta Avengers. More...
Urhobo Group Faults Uvwie Monarch, Omo-Agege for Misleading Senate on Location of FUPRE
FUPRE LAGOS JUNE 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Urhobo Mandate and Equity Forum, UMEF, has said the Federal University of Petroleum Resources FUPRE is sited in Ugbomro, and not Effurun, as is being erroneously portrayed. The More...
One Year Ago, Buhari Promises to Change Nigeria
Buhari LAGOS APRIL 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-When Nigerians rouse from sleep on April 1, they will again head for filling stations to join the now de rigueur queues for Premium Motor Spirit. This is no big news; queueing More...
EFCC Is Now a Toothless Bulldog Under Magu – Obasanjo
Obasanjo LAGOS MARCH 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday lamented that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has become a toothless bulldog. He said the anti-graft agency More...
Buhari Change Mantra and Ranting of Critics
Buhari By Akporhobo Tataunu LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-“We returned to our places, these kingdoms. But no longer ease here in the old dispensation”. _ Professor Chinua Achebe. From whatever locale you More...
Buhari’s Anti Corruption War Should Start from Himself-Obasanjo
Buhari and Obasanjo LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to begin his anti-corruption crusade with himself, the vice president, the Senate More...
Fashola to Re-Introduce Toll Gate on Nigeria Highways
Fashola LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the Federal Government will re-introduce highway tolling to raise additional funds to finance road infrastructure More...
Nigeria Will Soon Explode – Obasanjo
Obasanjo By Dr. Wumi Akintide LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-When Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo says that Nigeria is going to explode, you better believe him. If any of you reading this does not take More...
Ex-Biafran War-Lord, Achuzia Slams Obasanjo, Says He is Not in a Position to Call Agitators ‘Miscreants’
Obasanjo LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ex-Biafra leader and Ikemba of Asaba, Delta State, Chief Joseph Achuzia, has faulted former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for describing pro-Biafra agitators as miscreants, More...
Pro-Biafra Agitators are Miscreants – Obasanjo
Obasanjo LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described pro-Biafra agitators as miscreants who should be ignored. Speaking in an exclusive interview with our correspondents at More...
Goodluck Jonathan Writes a Formal Letter to Obasanjo
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has written to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, seeking the latter’s blessing for his next public engagement: the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, More...
Clark, the Father, Jonathan, the Son
By Reuben Abati LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-I HAVE tried delaying the writing of this piece in the honest expectation that someone probably misquoted Chief E.K. Clark, when he reportedly publicly disowned More...
Fela Son, Femi Kuti Charges Buhari on Ministerial Nominees, Says He is Deceiving Nigerians
Femi Kuti speaking with journalists during this year’s Felabration ceremony in Ikeja, the Lagos state capital LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-First son of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, late afrobeat legend, Femi Kuti More...
Buhari Makes ‘U’ Turn, Renounces Appointing Himself as Petroleum Minister
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will leave the post of petroleum minister in Africa’s biggest oil producer vacant after signaling that he would take the position, More...
Two NDLEA Officials ‘Abscond’ with 74.4kg of Seized Drugs
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 38TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Two officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement ?Agency, NDLEA, have been declared wanted after absconding with narcotics last month. Daniel Goska, ?a Superintendent of Narcotics, More...
Is Buhari and APC Really Ready To Change Nigeria?
By Niran Adedokun LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is true that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has just spent a negligible four of its 48 months term. I understand that this period represents More...
6 Questions Begging for Answers over Buhari’s Relocation of Villa Chapel, Mosque
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As controversy continues to trail the purported relocation of the Aso Villa Chapel and perhaps the Villa Mosque by President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians have continued to express More...
Presidency Lied; Buhari Indeed Stopped Worship in Aso Vila Chapel -ELOMBAH
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite denials by top officials of the administration, the Presidency indeed moved against Christian religious activities within the precincts of the Aso Rock presidential villa, More...
Senate Begins Probe on Waste of Power Funds Under Obasanjo till Date
Obsanjo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Senate will on Tuesday begin investigation into alleged unwholesome practices in the power sector from the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo till More...