Okowa: No Plan To Join APC
Okowa LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said that contrary to speculation that he planned to move to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), he would remain a solid More...
Suspected Islamic Fundermentalists Set Abuja Redeemed Chirch Ablaze, Cart Away Property
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The renewed wave of religious intolerance was on Monday re-enacted in Abuja when arsonists, suspected to be Islamic fundamentalists, set ablaze a building belonging to the More...
EFCC Recovers $9.2m In Former -NNPC Director’s Home
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday told a committee of the House of Representatives that $9.2 million and 750,000 More...
HURIWA Urges Civil Societies to Shun Protest Against Uduaghan, Describes Co-ordinators as “Blackmailers”
Uduaghan LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A frontline pro-democracy and Non-Governmental Organization, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has raised the alarm over some mushroom but politically motivated More...
Nigeria Police Storm Premium Times Abuja Office, Arrest Publisher, Journalist
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigeria police have raided PREMIUM TIMES head office in Abuja, and arrested the newspaper’s publisher. The publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, was arrested alongside the paper’s More...
Police Arrest Ali Modu Sheriff’s Media Aide
Sheriff LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Inuwa Bwala, publisher of the National Trail Newspaper and media aide to Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, was arrested on Tuesday evening in Abuja. Eyewitnesses said police officers More...
Ordeal of National Mirror Correspondent in Den of Kidnappers
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Correspondent with NATIONAL MIRROR Newspapers in Abuja narrates his encounter with armed robbers on Friday. Excerpts! On Friday January 6, my vehicle broke down along Ife-Ilesha More...
Consumers Groan as FG Hikes Cost of Cooking Gas
LAGOS JABUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Consumers of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) also known as cooking gas in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday decried an abrupt increase in the cost of re-filling the More...
Be Warn: Catfish Intake Is Dangerous to Health-Expert
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Abuja-based medical expert has warned that excessive consumption of catfish could increase the chances of developing cardiovascular diseases. Dr Arikawe Adeolu, a medical practitioner More...
Motorcycle Spare Parts Dealer Arrested with Cocaine Worth £3.5m Hidden in Shoes at Abuja Airport
Shies containing cocaine LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja have discovered parcels of whitish substance More...
Kidnappers of God is Good Motors’s Three Female Passengers Demand N5m Ransom
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Abductors of three female passengers of God Is Good Motors have demanded for ransom of N5m before their abductors will be release. Information shared via Ms. Obot’s phone More...
West African Leaders Insist Gambia’s President, Jammeh Must Step Down
ECOWAS’ Leaders LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS must ensure The Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh steps down because he lost an election, the bloc’s chairwoman More...
About to Wed Man Drinks Insecticide Over Freezing of MMM Account
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A soon-to-wed man simply identified as Adakole is currently between life and death after allegedly taking insecticide following the alleged crash of Ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mondial More...
Rep Seeks Relocation of NDLEA Headquarters, Laments Poor Funding of the Anti-Drug Agency
ndlea chairman muhammad abdallah, rt hon eucharia azodo, hon akinyede awodumila and hon kehinde agboola LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman House of Representative Committee on Narcotic Drug and Financial More...
Legislative Aide to Deputy Speaker of House of Rep Dies in National Assembly
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Senior Legislative Assistant with the National Assembly, Mr Abubakar Doki on Monday collapsed and died in the National Assembly premises. The deceased who was said to be in his More...
UPU Executives Expose How Joe Omene Defrauds Urhobo Progress Union Billion of Naira (SEE DOCUMENT)
President General of Urhobo Progress Union, Chief Joe Omene LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Revelation has just emerged that President General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) (Worldwide) Chief Joe Omene is reported More...
Ondo PDP: Jegede Defeats Jimoh Ibrahim at Appeal Court
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The court of appeal has finally laid to rest issues regarding the authentic candidate for Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State. The court, therefore, ordered that Mr. More...
Ondo PDP Flagbeaer:Mimiko, Jegede Wins At Supreme Court
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Supreme Court this morning ruled that the Court of Appeal should as a matter of expeditious, hear the suit filed by Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, the factional PDP candidate against More...
NDLEA Interrogates Four NAHCO Staff Over Illegal Export of 144kg of Hard Drug From Abuja Airport
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja have commenced the interrogation of the Chief Security Supervisor More...
How Driver Collaborates With Others to Kidnap and Murder His Madam
The driver and other suspects LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-She was really nice to me. She did not owe me any salary. She even went to my village one time and gave my father money. I have been driving her for More...
Why Foreign Investors Rush to Nigeria Despite Economic Recession?
Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun By Olawale Rasheed, LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)– Lodged in various hotels ,#Abuja are many #expatriates and #foreign investors .Negotiations proceed rapidly with More...
Isoko North Council Chairman, Egbabor, Fifteen Others Bag Best Chairmen Award in Nigeria
Hon Emmanuel Egbabor receiving the award from Bayo Ojo at the event By Barth Ndego LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman of Isoko North Local Government Council, Hon Emmanuel Egbabor has among 15 other chairmen More...
DSS Invasion of Judges’ Houses is Desecration of Judiciary -Onuesoke
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described recent arrest of Judges and Magistrates by Department of State Service (DSS) More...
Nigeria Secret Police Bow to Pressure, Release Arrested Judges
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The State Security Service has released all the judges arrested during a nationwide sweep between Friday and Saturday. Sources in the agency said all the seven judges were released More...
Nigeria’s State Security Service Goes Berserk, Clampdown on Judges in Different States
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An overnight assault on senior judges across the country by the State Security Service has resulted in the arrest of a Federal High Court judge and alleged brutalisation of a sitting More...