Angry Villagers Force Chevron to Shut Down Warri Tank Farm
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Angry elders, leaders, youths and women of Ugborodo, an Itsekiri community, who laid siege to the tank farms located in their community since Tuesday have forced Chevron Nigeria More...
Tension in Delta Waterways as Tompolo ‘Stops’ Okowa’s Aide from Executing Contract Work at EPZ Site
Tompolo LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Fresh tension is mounting in the Delta Waterways as ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), Saturday, allegedly deployed some ex-militants to stop More...
Ugborodo Project: Police Reopens $1b Fraud Investigation against Uduaghan, Okowa, Others
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan (l) and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa (r) LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi-Lagos of Nigeria, has reopened an alleged $1 billion More...
Delta Community Raises Alarm over Military Invasion, Intimidation
Soldiers invading Ugborodo community of Delta State LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The people of Ugborodo community in Delta State, South-South Nigeria have raised the alarm over the Military invasion and rough More...
Ijaw Group Claims Responsibility for Dibi Oil Platform Explosion, Threatens to Blow Up the Entire Flow Station
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group under the aegis of Egbama Radical Group has claimed responsibility for the early Wednesday morning explosion that rocked a major line at the Dibi platform in Warri North Local 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...
Fraudster Absconds after Duping 50 Job Seekers in Delta over Ugborodo EPZ Project
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)—A man simply identified as Wisdom, is now on the run, for allegedly defrauding over 50 job seekers, who jumped at his offer of mouthwatering jobs at the yet to take-off Federal More...
$6m EPZ Project: Ugborodo Leaders Disown Ovouzerie Macaulay Led Peace Committee
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) – Indications emerged at the weekend that the peace deal between the Ugborodo community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State and the State Government over More...
Uduaghan and The ‘Missing’ $6m Chevron’s Ugborodo Fund?
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan By Ifeanyi Izeze LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Is it not shameful and disheartening that for over four years now, the slow progress of work at the site of what was supposed More...
Ugborodo Elders Disagree with Uduaghan over Safety of Alleged Missing $6m
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) — THE lingering Ugborodo crisis took a twist, yesterday, with the Council of Elders of the community, disagreeing with Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, that the More...
Olu of Warri Disowns Ayomike on Ugborodo Missing $6m…Money Intact, Says Uduaghan, Ecobank
Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)– The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse II on Tuesday disowned Pa Johnson Ayomike over his controversial role in the Ugborodo crisis, describing him More...
Itsekiri Leader Blame Uduaghan over Alleged Missing $6m Ugborodo Fund
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-LEADER of the Itsekiri Leaders of Thought, Pa Johnson Ayomike, Monday alleged that the $6 million sent by Chevron in the United States as contribution towards the development of More...
Delta: Gunmen Kidnap 9-Year-Old, Ayiri’s Niece in Ugborodo
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY) – A nine-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped, Sunday, in Warri, Delta State allegedly in connection with the crisis in More...
3 Corpses Recovered after Warri Shooting…As Delta Govt Denies Shooting
LAGOS JANURAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Sporadic shooting in oil rich Ugborodo Community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have left three persons dead and others allegedly reported missing. This More...
Uduaghan Debunks Report of Heavy Shooting, Killing in Warri Communities
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)– The Delta State Government has accused “enemies of progress” of feeding the media with reports of shootings and killings in the Ugborodo More...
How Delta Waterways Security Committee is battling oil theft in Delta
Flames from an illegal refinary refining crude oil to diesel at Warri South LGA of Delta State By Ochuko Bukororo Like a smoldering fire, oil theft under the guise of illegal oil bunkery has become an industry More...
Deltans in Diaspora Pledges Support for Ayiri’s Water Way Security Committee
Chief Ayiri Emami LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of Deltans residing in South Africa under the aegis of Comrades in South Africa (CSA) have pledged its commitment and loyalty to the Chief Ayiri Emami led More...
Delta: Itsekiri Leaders Say Ugborodo Community is Peaceful for EPZ Investment
Itsekiri Monarch As against speculations of a purported crisis said to be rocking Ugborodo community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, indigenes and community heads of Madangho, Ajaudaibo, More...
Delta State: I’m Innocent of Renewed Crisis in Itsekiri Community-Ayiri Cousin, Kiki
Three of the suspected oil thieves handed over to JTF Ogorodo youths LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (URHCousin to Delta Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Stalwart Chief Emami Ayiri and Ugborodo National Youth Financial Secretary, More...