Blackout: FG Plans To take Over BEDC, Sack Management — INVESTIGATION
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Barely a month after the takeover of Kaduna DisCo over a N10 billion debts, the federal government has concluded plans to take over Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, More...
Ilaje Stakeholders Urge Court To Bar Buhari From Inaugurating NDDC Board
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Stakeholders in the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State have asked the Federal High Court (FHC) to stop President Muhammadu Buhari from inaugurating the Niger Delta Development More...
First Nigeria Finance Minister Okotie-Eboh’s Grandson Declares For Senate In Ondo State
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tola Awosika, a grandson of Nigeria’s first finance minister, Festus Okotie-Eboh, has declared his intention to run for the Senate to represent Ondo Central Senatorial district More...
Security Operatives Kill Suspected Sea Pirate, Gang Members In Warri
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A suspected pirate leader ,whose name was given as Mutu Mone, alias MK and “several” members of his gang, have been reportedly killed, in the deep creeks of Abigborodo, Warri More...
TB Joshua’s Death Is Shocking=Ifeanyi Okowa
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa on Monday described the death of the Founder Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN) Prophet TB Joshua as shocking. TB Joshua died on Saturday More...
Tompolo Leads Thousands Of Ijaw Indigenes For The Spiritual Cleansing Of N’Delta
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Thousands of Ijaw people from all over Delta, Bayelsa, Edo and Ondo states converged on Oporoza town, the ancestral headquarters of Gbaramotu Kingdom in the Warri South Local Government More...
BEDC Concludes Plans To Roll Out 90,870 Prepaid Meters In Delta, Three Other States
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) has concluded plans to roll out no fewer than 90,870 meters in Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti States in the first quarter More...
Crisis Looms Between Ilaje,Ijaw Communities Over Discovery Of Oil In Ondo, Delta Borderline
Rotimi Akeredolu (Governor of Ondo State) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Governor of Delta State) LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Crisis is brewing between the Ilaje community of Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State and More...
Shell Donates Modern Geophysical Equipment Accesseries to OAU
L-R: General Manager, Exploration, Shell Petroleum Development Company ofNigeria (SPDC), Mr. Daniel Agbaire; Occupant of the SPDC Professorial Chairin Geology at OAU, Professor (Mrs.) Mary Olowokere; Acting Vice More...
Cracks Deepen as APC Tinubu and His Loyalists Shun Ondo Campaign Rally
Tinubuinubu,APC,Campaign,Ondo State LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tinubu has handed his party the cold shoulder just before Ondo settles for its next Governor. There’ll be no prizes for guessing why? Tinubu More...
Jimoh Ibrahim Declares Self Ondo PDP Gov Candidate, Accuses INEC Official of Demanding $1m Bribe
Jimoh Ibrahim LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Factional candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ondo State governorship election, Jimoh Ibrahim, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, More...
Ondo: Hungry Nigerians Butcher Stranded Giant Whale in Ilaje
LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A huge Whale made the greatest mistake of its life by getting stranded on the shores of Enu-Ama beach, in Ilaje area of Ondo state as hungry residet of the community bounced on More...
Okada Rider Absconds With 19 Years Old Female Student
Moyinoluwa LAGOS JULY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A resident of Owo Local Government in Ondo State, Mr. Bola Abdulkareem at the weekend explained how his 19 year-old child, Moyinoluwa was kidnapped by a yet to be identified More...
Horror as Lifeless Bodies of Husband, Wife Found Dead in Sitting Room
Mr Solomon Arase LAGOS APRIL 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A man, Mr. Femi Oguntunwase, and his wife, Modupe,were found dead in their house in the new site area of Oba Ile town in the Akure North Local Government Area of More...
Killers Of Former FUTA Vice Chancellor to Die By Hanging
The two killer of former FUTA Vice Chancellor LAGOS JANUARY 20H (URHOBOTODAY)-An Ondo State High Court in Akure has sentenced two domestic staff members of late Prof. Albert Ilemobade a former Vice-Chancellor of More...
Presidency Warns Fayose against Unguarded Out Burst on Federal Allocation
Bbuhari and Fayose LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidency has reacted to the recent comment of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose pertaining to September’s federal allocation of N389 billion, by More...
Ondo Police Foils Bank Robbery Attempt through Underground Tunnel (PHOTOS)
The underground tunnel LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ondo State Police Command has foiled a robbery attempt on United Bank Africa (UBA) located in Akure, capital of Ondo State. Urhobotoday an online medium More...
At Last, Olu Falae Admits Paying Ransom to His Abductors
Olu Falae LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Olu Falae, on Monday confessed that his family paid ransom to his abductors before he was freed on Thursday. He said More...
EXPOSED; Buhari’s Ministerial List Leaked?
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite concerted efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to keep the list of his would-be ministers close to his chest, the list has become leaked, with a portal authoritatively More...
Masquerades Invade Church in Ondo State, Flog Pastors, Worshipers
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)A Church service was reportedly disrupted by four masquerades who flogged the pastors and the worshipers in Epinmi Akoko area of Ondo state. One of the masquerades, Tunde Arohunmolase More...
Police Nab 4 Ikorodu Banks’ Robbers with Bundles of Naira Notes…Acquire JEEPS, Landed Property
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Four members of the robbery gang, which unleashed terror on two commercial banks in the Ipakodo, Ikorodu area of Lagos two weeks ago, have been arrested by the police. Our More...
Delta: Is Ogboru Contemplating Dumping Labour Party for APC?
Chief Great Ogboru LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Information reaching URHOBOTODAY has revealed that four time governorship candidate in Delta State, Chief Great Ogboru may decide to dump Labour Party to All Progressive More...
Ondo Law Makers Sack Deputy Governor, Ali Olanusi
Ali Olanusi LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ondo State Deputy Governor, Ali Olanusi, was impeached on Monday morning by members of the state House of Assembly.? Twenty two of the 26 members of the Assembly supported More...
Afenifere Endorses Jonathan ……Reinstate Commitment to Implement CONFAB’s Decision
President Goodluck Jonathan coasting on…….PDP,Seinde Arogbofo,CONFAB LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, in Akure, on Tuesday night endorsed the second term presidential More...
Toyota Donates Vehicles in Support of Nigerian Educational Dev
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Toyota South Africa Motors recently donated nine vehicles to Toyota Nigeria Limited for the sole purpose of augmenting education and training in this area. This donation is in More...