Delta, Rivers, Edo, 9 Other States To Experience Flooding – NEMA, NHISA Warn
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Hydrological Services Agencies (NHISA) have warned that 12 states across the country would soon experience flooding More...
UPDATE: Death Toll in Boko Haram Twin Bomb Blast Rises to 56, Over 120 Wounded
Shekau Haram,Twin Bomb,Adamawa,Madagali,Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The death toll from Friday’s suicide bombing attacks in Madagali town, Adamawa state, has risen to 56, according to varios More...
Hungry Refugees in IDP’s Camp Accuse Nigerian Officials of Stealing Their Food
Starving refugees in IDP camp in Borno State LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian officials have been accused of stealing food from desperate people who are living in camps after fleeing the terrorist group More...
A Second Chibok Schoolgirl ‘Serah Luka’ Rescued
Second rescued Chibo girl Serah Luka’ LAGOS MAY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military has disclosed that another girl of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State abducted by the Boko Haram two years More...
Group Drags EFCC to Federal Character Commission over Lopsided Recruitment from North
Destiny Ugorji LAGOS MAY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Non-Governmental organization, Media Initiative against Injustice, Violence and Corruption-MIIVOC, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and More...
Appeal Court Nullifies Nyako’s Impeachment., Strikes Out Request to Return as Governor
Nyako LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Court of Appeal sitting in Yola, Adamawa State capital has on Thursday nullified the impeachment of former governor Murtala Nyako, saying the impeachment was premised on More...
Buhari Raises Alarm, Says Terrorists Returning to Embarrass Govt
Buhari LAGOS JAAURY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday raised the alarm that having lost the war to the nation’s armed forces, insurgents are desperately seeking ways of returning to the society More...
Nigeria Military Raises Alarm, Says Boko Haram Bombers Change Tactics, Dress Like Mad Persons
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, DHQ has alerted the general public over what it said is the new tactics of Boko Haram suicide bombers. A statement by the acting Director Defence More...
Scores Feared Dead as Two Deadly Explosives Rock Kano Market
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Two explosions, believed to be from improvised explosive devices, have gone off in Kano, a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent in the city is reporting. “Explosions have gone off at More...
Nigerian Military’s Victory Claim over Boko Haram is Fraudulent-US Diplomat
John Campbell Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has said that talks of victories by Nigerian troops against Boko Haram, must be taken with caution, even skepticism, especially with the difficulty in More...
Security: US,UK,Canada Warn Citizens to Stay Clear of Twenty Two States in Nigeria
David Cameon LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-In spite of the weakening of Boko Haram’s capacity to carry out large-scale attacks against civilians and soldiers by Nigerian troops in the North-East, the United More...
UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon to Visit Nigeria on Sunday
UN Secreatry-General,Ban Ki-Moon expected in Nigeria on Sunday LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria will play host to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who will be in the country from tomorrow, More...
Chibok Girls are Either Married Off or Sold into Slavery, Rescued Women Revealed
Chibok girls LAGOS MAY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram is fracturing as shortages of weapons and fuel foment tensions between its foot soldiers and leaders, women rescued from the Islamist jihadi fighters by More...
MASSOB Insists Jega Must Go, Threatens to Resist Election in the South
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has demanded the immediate removal of Chairman the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru More...
Nigerian Army Re-Captures More Communities from Boko Haram
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military on Friday said it has recaptured two more communities from Boko Haram militants in the North Eastern part of Nigeria after intense fighting. The Defence Headquarters More...
4 Chibok Girls Walk into Freedom after Wandering for 3 Weeks in the Forest
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)– Four of the over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls forcefully abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram have managed to escape from a camp in Cameroun, after almost six months since More...
BREAKING NEWS: Nigerian Air Force Plane Missing In Adamawa
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters has declared an Air Force plane,an Alpha Jet (NAF 466) to be precise, missing in Adamawa State,northeast Nigeria. Director Defence Information,Major More...
Ribadu Dumps APC, Joins PDP
Ribadu LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined the Peoples Democratic More...
NYSC Suspends Orientation Programmes in Six States Over Ebola
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Thursday announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programmes of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation Course in six states More...
Yobe: Blast Rips through Football Viewing Centre in Damaturu
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. The blast at the Crossfire More...
Tragedy: Blast Kills Dozens of Football Fans, Fun Seekers at Adamawa
Typical bomb blast scene LAGOS JUNE 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-A powerful explosion Sunday evening rocked the commercial border town of Mubi town in Mubi South Local Government area of Adamawa State with sources among local More...
Youth Corpers Barred from Trouble Adamawa,Borno, Yobo States
LAGOS MAY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE Director- General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Johnson Olawumi, disclosed, yesterday, that the agency had put a stop to sending graduates to Adamawa, More...
Onuesoke Lambasts Nyako over Genocide Memo to Northern Governors
Hon Sunny Onuesoke By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS APRIL 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant in 2007 general election, Chief Sunny Onuesoke slammed Adamawa State Governor, More...
Boko Haram Invades Adamawa Villages, Casualties Unknown
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Unknown gunmen on Wednesday night raided three villages in Madagali and Michika local governments in Adamawa state, residents and officials have said. According to the chairman More...
Few Hours after FG Claims of Winning War against Terrorism, Boko Haram Attack Bama Again
Boko Haram leader, Shekarau LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY0)-Few hours after an aide to President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide boasted that Nigerian military is better equipped and motivated to fight Boko Haram More...