Ex-Eagle Winger, Okenla to Launch Biggest Cultural Carnival in Africa
Folorunsho Okenla LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government through the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has given former green Eagles winger Folorunsho Okenla the mandate to run the biggest cultural More...
Precious Chikwendu: The First Ever Africa to Win United Nations Beauty Pageant
Miss Precious Chikwendu with her crown By Adedayo Adejobi LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Miss Precious Chikwendu was Nigeria’s representative at the Miss United Nations World Beauty pageant in 2014. Not only More...
50 Refugees Suffocate to Death in a Truck in Austria
Investigators search a truck on the shoulder of the A4 highway near Parndorf, Austria, on Aug. 27, 2015. LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY) — As many as 50 refugees were found dead in a parked lorry in Austria More...
SuperSports 9, African Football Channel Now on GOtv Plus
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)- GOtv has announce the addition of SuperSport 9 (SS9) to series of its channels. It has gone live on GOtv Plus channel 35 since Thursday, 13 August at 11:00 CAT. SuperSport More...
Ford Motor to Start Assembly in Nigeria
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Ford Motor Company will start assembling its best-selling Ford Ranger pickup truck in Nigeria by the fourth quarter, as it expands in Africa and the Middle East, the U.S. More...
Airtel Nigeria Hits 30 million Subscriber Milestones
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Bharti Airtel, the world’s third largest telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Africa and Asia, today announced a significant milestone More...
Ibori’s Case Echoes in Singapore as Cameron Warns against Bringing Dirty Money to Uk
James Ibori LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Foreign fraudsters and corrupt officials have been warned by David Cameron that London is “not a place to stash your dodgy cash”. The Prime Minister has promised More...
Etisalat Announces Entries for £15,000 Prize for Literature 2015
LAGOS JULY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat has announced the call for entries for the 2015 Etisalat Prize. The prize is the first ever Pan More...
Advent of Urhobo ‘Igbe’ as First Monotheistic Religion in Nigeria
Igbe worshippers dancing at Ogwa By Mathias Iroro Orhero The advent of judeo-christian monotheistic religious groups in Nigeria such as Christianity and Islam has done great damage to the knowledge of some of our More...
U.S. to Trace Nigerian Stolen Assets, Boost Military Assistant
US President Barack Obama LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The United States will offer to help Nigeria’s new leader track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and increase U.S. military assistance More...
Nigeria Leads Africa’s Smart Phone Market with Samsung,Tecno, Apple Lead as Vendors
LAGOS JULY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria was in the lead of Africa smart phone in the first quarter of 2015, latest figure released by Global Technology Consulting Firm, International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed. Nigeria More...
Boko Haram Gunmen Kill 42, Set Houses Ablaze and Loot Shops in Borno Villages
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead at least 42 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria, with no let-up in sight to the Islamist group’s targeting of civilians. The More...
Angry Buhari Cries Out, Says Nigeria Treasury ‘Virtually Empty’
Buhari LAGOS JUNE 22 URHOBOTODAY) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday slammed the state of the country’s finances, claiming his predecessor had left Africa’s biggest economy More...
FG Grants Provisional License to Edwin Clark University
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS MAY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The federal government Thursday granted provisional license to newly approved private university of Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, Delta State. Edwin Clark University More...
Nigeria Borrows Money to Pay Government Salaries-Okonjo-Iweala
Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Africa’s richest economy is borrowing money to pay salaries as it struggles through a “difficult cash crunch” brought on by halved oil prices, Nigeria’s More...
Goodluck Jonathan Re-election Could Cause Violence Among Northern Muslims
By Morgan Winsor LAGOS MARCH 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-With northern states rallying behind primary challenger Muhammadu Bahari, President Goodluck Jonathan and his long-ruling People’s Democratic Party are expected More...
Why Urhobos Must Vote for Jonathan, Okowa?- Onuesoke
President Goodluck Jonathan and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As the date of the 2015 general election come closer, Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in 20071 More...
Okagbare’s Success is One of the Gains of my Administration-Uduaghan
From left; Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Mrs. Funke Egbomode, Blessing Okagbare and Mr. Kunle Solaja during the presentation of the Sun Newspaper award letter to Okagbare in Asaba, Wednesday. LAGOS 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...
UK to Return £6.8m of Ibori Loot to Nigeria
Chief James Ibori LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Kingdom government is to return an additional 6.8 million pounds of the confiscated loot of former Delta Governor, James Ibori, to Nigeria. The UK Metropolitan More...
MTN, Alcatel to Boost Connectivity with 100G Fiber-Optic Data Network
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-MTN Nigeria, which covers more than almost 90 percent of Nigeria’s land mass will in collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent deploy 100G network that re-uses existing 10G optical More...
Calls for Entries for 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)- Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company has announced the 2014 Flash Fiction Prize category of the Etisalat Prize for literature. This award category which is in More...
Ebola: Handshake, Symbol of Peace, Now Means of Death
John Dania LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter was in a village situated near the More...
Niger Delta Region ‘Epicentre of Electoral Fraud’-Investigators
LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reportedly claimed that the country’s Niger Delta – also referred to as the “South South” region – More...
FBI Set to Join Hunt for Chibok Schoolgirls
Chibok girls LAGOS MAY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Agents from the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), possibly from the New York field office, will reportedly join a US team heading to Nigeria to More...