Buhari Anti-Graft Campaign Is Selective-Ijaw Youths
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The umbrella body of Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), said on Wednesday that they are ready to support the anti-corruption and restructuring campaigns embarked upon More...
Buhari, Obasanjo @ Cross Road: Former President Seeking Return to PDP
Obasanjo and Buhari LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-There are indications that Ex President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who publicly ripped his party’s membership card, is scheming to return to the party through the back More...
N’Delta Militants on Rampage, Invade Customs Base in Akwa Ibom, Kill One, Seize Rifles
LAGOS JULY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Heavily armed men suspected to be Niger Delta militants on Monday invaded the Nigerian Customs Service Base in Oron, Akwa Ibom State, killing an officer and carting away 10 rifles. The More...
Nigerian Air Force Declares War against Oil Thieves Kills 350 in Akwa Ibom Creeks
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-It has been confirmed that Nigeria Air Force, under the directives of the Buhari-led administration, raided Ikot Obiokut, a border community in Cross River state for reasons not yet More...
PDP Raises Alarm, Alleges APC Plots to Take Over Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers
LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, raised alarm that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was plotting to take over Akwa Ibom, Delta and Rivers More...
Gov Akpabio Collapses, Rushed to UK Hospital
Godswill Akpabio LAGOS MARCH 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Reports reaching the stables of elombah.com indicates that the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godwill Akpabio has reportedly collapsed and was rushed to a hospital in the More...
Desperate Politicians Bribe Voters for Multiple Permanent Voter Cards
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Desperate politicians have resorted to bribing and luring voters with gifts to encourage them to collect their Permanent Voter Cards for next week’s election. The Independent More...
Tompolo and Okowa: Between a Militant and a Decadent Political Order
Delta State PDP Governorship candidate, senator Ifeanyi Okowa By Mamuzo Otobo LAGOS 22ND ( URHOBOTODAY)-The strong consensus in Delta State and even Nigeria is that the state whose creation in 1991 elicited an More...
2015 : First Lady’s Plot To Impose Govs on Delta, Other States May Threatens Jonathan’s Chances
Dame Patience Jonathan LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Indications emerged on Sunday in Abuja that the ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan, to seek re-election in the 2015 general election may after all be 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...
Akwa-Ibom: Journalist Missing after Abduction by Alleged Armed Operatives
LAGOS JULY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Armed men, suspected to be government operatives, on Tuesday seized a senior editor of a popular Uyo-based newspaper widely regarded for its critical views of the Akwa Ibom State government. Thomas More...
Confab Delegates Focus on True Federalism
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The call for restructuring of Nigeria into true federalism with the different geo-political zones serving as federating units received further boosts on Wednesday as different More...
East-West Road to Swallow Extra N30bn
East-West Road LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government needs N30 billion to complete the East West road project. The Supervising Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Darius Ishaku, said this when he More...
Police Slam 10-Count Charge on Hospitalised The Sun Editor,Ebere Wabara
Hospitalised The Sun Editor, Mr Ebere Wabara By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS APRIL 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Abia State Police Command on Monday continued its action against the Associate Editor of The Sun, Mr. Ebere Wabara, More...
A Non-Performing Governor and his Inordinate Senatorial Ambition
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)’Ambition is the last refuge of the failure’. – Oscar Wilde Believe me when I say I write this with pain, real pain that More...
Jonathan Nominates Chairman, MD For NDDC, PenCom, FIRS, Law Reform Commission
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)– President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday nominated a Chairman and Managing Director for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a letter to the Senate for their confirmation, More...
Why US did not Prosecute Akpabio’s Boy over Money Laundering Offence
Above is the picture of the money seized at BWI Airport, Baltimore, Maryland, USA from Mr Nse Ntuen, Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and executive chairman of More...
2015: Tension in Akwa Ibom as Missing SSG, Umana, Reportedly Gets 48hrs Order to Resign
Akwa Ibom SSG Umana-Okon Barely five days after he made public his ambition to run for the office of the governor in 2015 the Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State Government, Umana Umana, has been reportedly given 48 More...
Rivers’ Crisis: House Leader Faces Attempted Murder Charge, as PDP Elders Call for Amaechi Resignation
LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As investigators continue to interrogate the House Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, indications emerged yesterday that he may be charged for attempted murder. Informed More...
Electrician Recovers Akpabio’s Missing $250,000 in Air Condition, Gets N1m reward
Godswill Akpabio LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Bundles of mint-fresh dollars, valued at over $250,000 (about N40 million), which reportedly disappeared late last month from Governor Godswill Akpabio’s bedroom More...
Electrician Recovers Akpabio’s Missing $250,000 in Air Condition, Gets N1m reward
Gov Godswill Akpabio LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Bundles of mint-fresh dollars, valued at over $250,000 (about N40 million), which reportedly disappeared late last month from Governor Godswill Akpabio’s bedroom More...
United Nation, Orubebe Map Out Action Plan for Development of Niger Delta
Minister of Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs Elder Godsday Orubebe By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS JULY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs under the leadership of Elder Godsday Orubebe in collaboration More...
Three Stewards Fired Over Alleged Missing $250,000 Akpabio’s Loot
Akwa Ibom Governor Godswill Akpabio LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY) Three stewards working in the Akwa Ibom state governor’s lodge in Asokoro, Abuja was on Friday summarily dismissed by the governor, Godswill More...
Jonathan, Soyinka, E.K.Clark, Ciroma, Others to Deliberate on Nigeria Future
By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) Eminent leaders of thought , statesmen and top politicians from across the six geo political zones of the country are set to gather together next week at Le’Meridian More...
PDP Makes U-Turn on Amaechi, to Settle Out of Court
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi LAGOS JUNE 22ND (URHOBOTODAY) Strong indications emerged yesterday that the lingering political problem between the Governor of Rivers State and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ More...