Fire Razes Federal Secretariat, Destroys Delta NYSC Office In Asaba
File Photo LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Property worth millions of naira and vital documents were yesterday destroyed by an early morning inferno that gutted the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) office at the More...
Delta Police Boss Furious Over Cult Killings, Gives DPOs, Others Matching Order
LAGOS JULY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In order to curb the rising cases of cult clashes resulting in several killings, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ali Ari on Thursday summoned all Divisional Police More...
Young Men Flee From Asaba As Suspected Cultists In reprisal Attack Kill Six
LAGOS JULY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Six persons were killed between Monday and Tuesday morning, in Asaba, Delta State capital, in what is suspected to be renewed cult-related clashes. The alleged killing of the six More...
Gunmen Shot Dead Former Oshimili NULGE Chairman In Asaba
LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State was on Monday shot dead. The official popularly More...
Urhobo Priest, Ex-Council Scribe, One Other Arrested Over Alleged Murder Of Two
LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Police have arrested Chief Sam Mukoro, Okaka the 10th and former Secretary of Udu Local Government Council, Hon. Ejovwo Yarhere with one Chief Gabriel Sikprako. Mukoro was picked More...
Tension As Delta Police Allegedly Shoot Man Dead, Label Him Armed Robber
LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was tension in Asaba, Delta State, on Thursday, following the killing of a yet-to-be-identified man by the police at the DLA Road, Asaba. PUNCH Metro gathered that some men, suspected More...
Delta: Absence Of Accused Persons Stalled Trial Of Suspected Killers Of Ubulu-Uku’s Monarch
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hearing in the trial of four persons in the alleged murder of the Obi of the Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, late Akaeze Ofolue III, was stalled, More...
Tragedy Averted As United Nigeria Airline Plane Experience Battery Failure In Asaba Int’l Airport
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tragedy was averted on Monday, June 28, 2020, after a plane belonging to United Nigeria Airlines developed a battery fault just before takeoff. About 60 passengers on board the Lagos More...
Delta Police Nab Native Doctor With Two Human Skulls, Three Men With Fresh Human Blood
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Operatives of Delta State Police command has arrested a 60-years-old native doctor, Godfrey Akpudje with two human skulls in Urhobo community of Ekpan Ovu, Delta State. The arrest More...
Delta Police Demobilize Notorious Armed Robber, Declare Manhunt For Fleeing Colleague
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Operatives of Delta Police Command has shot dead most wanted dead armed robber in Amukpe, Sapele after a heavy gun duel between the police and a notorious armed robbery syndicate. The More...
Isoko Lawmaker, Kenneth Ogba Slumps, Dies After Church Service In Irri
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The member representing Isoko South Constituency 1 in the Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Kenneth Ogba is dead. He died at about 7pm, Sunday. The circumstances which led to his More...
Delta Vendor Arrested For Selling Biafra Newspaper Sad Narrates Ordeal In Police Cell
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A newspaper vendor in Asaba, Delta State, Mr Patrick Onwanaha, who spent 13 days in police detention and was recently granted bail by a court, narrates his ordeal to MATTHEW OCHEI More...
Delta Governor Appoints More Special Advisers
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has approved the appointment of two more special advisers. The two special advisers are Hon. Pascal Adigwe and Hon. Samuel Mariere. Secretary to More...
Nobody Can Put Me On Coalition Course With Ibori, Uduaghan, Okowa Vows
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday said he would not be distracted by some highly placed members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, who attempts More...
Vehicles Submerged In Mud As Flood Ravages Asaba (PHOTOS)
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The heavy downpour has left owners of vehicles and tricycles downcast as mud water entered their engines at Nnebisi road, Asaba. Saloon cars could be seen totally submerged in the More...
Man Who Claim Jihadists Plant Explosive In Asaba New Secretariat Is Talking ‘Garbage’-Police
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Police Command has debunked the claim of Mr Obinobe who claimed to have discovered some Jihadists planting explosives in the new secretariat building in Asaba, Delta More...
Delta Tenants Lament High Cost Of House Rent, Call For Govt. Intervention
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Government has been called upon to look into the constant and indiscriminate house rent increment by landlords, especially in the state capital territory areas of Asaba More...
2023: Justice Ofesi Emerges Chairman Of Delta Icon
Delta State Goernor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa (left) swearing in Justice Vincent Ofesi as the Chairman of Delta Icon in Asaba recently… LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ahead of the 2023 governorship election in More...
MEND Threatens War Against Fulanis Should There Be Any Attack In Delta State
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Sequel to the threat letter written to Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa by suspected Fulani Terrorist to attack Asaba and Agbor if the Governor did not withdraw his support More...
Ignore Alleged Fulani Jihadist Attack Threat, Police Tell Delta Residence
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Police Command has urged people of Delta State to ignore letter purportedly written by Fulani Jihadist spread in Asaba threatening to attack Asaba and Agbor towns of Delta More...
Ban On Open Grazing: Fulani Jihadists Write Okowa, Threaten To Attack Asaba, Agbor
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Confusion pervaded Asaba, Delta State after residents discovered a threat letter giving Governor Ifeanyi Okowa a 72-hour ultimatum to withdraw his support for the ban on open grazing More...
House Of Reps Passes Bill For Establishment Of Fed University of Technology, Asaba
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The House of Representatives has passed the bill for an act to establish the Federal University of Technology, Asaba, Delta State. The bill, sponsored by the Minority Leader of the More...
Delta Lawmakers Set To Outlaw Open Grazing In The State
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Sherrif Oborevwori, yesterday, hinted that open grazing of cattle will soon be outlawed in the state following moves by the lawmakers More...
Despite South-South Govs Ban, Open Grazing Persists In Delta Communities
LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was rampaging grazing of some cow along the Asaba / Ughelli Road by Ogwashi-Uku area that almost caused traffic logjam. Some headsmen were seen with scores of adult cows and calves More...
Why Nigeria Needs New Constitution, Not Amendment – Ifeanyi Okowa
LAGOS MAY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that Nigeria needed a new constitution and not an amendment to accommodate emerging issues of good governance and greater interest More...