Armed Robbers, Cultists On Rampage In Delta State
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The activities of armed bandits and cultists have gone out of hand as they go under brood daylight to carry out their activities. In Ughelli, the administrative headquarter of More...
Okonji, Ogodo, Ogboru Trade Allegations As Delta APC Crisis Deepens
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (RHOBOTODAY)-Crisis rocking Delta State All Progressive Congress is becoming unabated as Chieftains of the party continue to accuse each other about the dwindling fate of the party in the state. The More...
NAFDAC Intercepts Five Trucks Loaded With Fake Drugs In Abraka Market
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has arrested and confiscated three vehicles laden with suspected fake and substandard drugs in Delta. Deputy More...
Police Arrest Two Over Alleged Abduction 18 Expatriates In Escravos
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Hafiz Mohammed Inuwa Tuesday said the Police have arrested two suspected kidnappers; for the alleged kidnapping of eighteen (18) expatriates More...
Asaba Demolitions; Between Economic Survival and City Beautification
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-‘The goal of government should be to improve the life chances of the citizens-German Sociologist, Ralf Dahrendorf The unprecedented spate of unrelenting More...
Drunken Man Found Dead With Missing Head In Asaba
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was confusion on Saturday following the discovering of the body of an unidentified drunk man without his head in Asaba, Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State. It More...
Experts In Delta Investment Summit Highlights Opportunities In Agriculture
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The expert who spoke at the just concluded Delta Agribusiness Finance and Investment summit held in Asaba urged investors to take advantage of agricultural opportunities in Delta More...
Gunmen Kill Delta Works Director, Onochie In His Uncompleted Building
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Staff of the Delta Ministry of Works, Asaba, were thrown into mourning following the alleged assassination of one of the directors, J O Onochie by gunmen suspected to be assassins. At More...
Remodeling Of Delta State Appeal Court Structure Swallows Whooping N800m
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Government has disclosed that N800 million has been expended in the remodeling of the Court of Appeal (Asaba Division) complex at the state capital. The Federal Government More...
NDDC Donates Lassa Fever Kits, Drugs To Support Delta Govt Efforts
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has donated Lassa fever protective kits and drugs to support the Delta State government in its efforts to check the menace of the disease More...
Delta Opposition Party Laments Economic, Social Hardships In Asaba, Environs
LAGOS JANUARY24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta State Chapter, has actually resented what it referred to as the unquantifiable economic and social hardships caused on the locals and traders More...
Fear Grips Deltans As Lassa Fever Kills Woman, Two Others Quarantined
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-SaharaReporters reports that residents of Asaba, capital of Delta State, are currently living in fear following an outbreak of Lassa Fever, which has killed a woman and left two More...
Ex-Commissioner Protest Okowa’s Plan To Convert Mariam Babangida’s Building To Appeal Court
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former commissioner for women affairs in Delta State, Queen Betty Efekodha has raised an alarm over the plan to convert the Mariam Babaginda Women Development Center that was built More...
Clash Between Lawyers, Police Disrupt Trial Of Suspects Of Ritual Murder Of Elozino
LAGOS JANAUARY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Proceedings at the Delta State High Court, Asaba were temporarily disrupted as a result of a melee between lawyers and escort policemen on the convoy of the Commissioner of Police, More...
Gas Explosion Razes 20 Flats, Property, Valuables In Asaba
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 20 flats in a building and the property of the occupants were burnt when gas exploded at the popular Bonsaac area in Asaba, Delta State. This came barely three weeks More...
Delta Line Driver Flees After Crushing Pregnant Woman To Death
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A pregnant woman was on Saturday crushed to death by a Delta Line Hiace bus along the Onitsha-Asaba expressway by Coker Junction, in Oshimili South L.G.A, Delta State. The incident More...
Asaba Mob Beats Suspected Mad Man Over Alleged Attempt To Rape Market Woman
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY-A man suspected to be insane attacked a market woman at a popular Ogbeogonogo market in Asaba, Delta state on Sunday. It was gathered that the suspect allegedly committed the rape More...
Delta Pensioners Protest Against Composition Of Pension Committee
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Association of Contributory Retirees has kicked against the inclusion of Prof. Sylvester Monye and Dr. Kingsley Emu, two prominent aides of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in More...
10 Roasted To Death In Ghastly Delta Auto-Crash
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A ghastly auto crash which occurred along Asaba- Benin Expressway around Issele Azagba/Akwukwu Igbo on Tuesday night has claimed the life a driver, his conductor, four – year More...
3000 Suspended Delta Civil Servants Protest As Okowa Recalls 450 State Workers
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was protest in Asaba, the Delta State capital, on Monday by over 3,000 suspended civil servants following the recall of 450 workers by the state government last weekend. The More...
Delta Govt Uncovers 273 Ghost Workers On State Payroll
As part of the activities to commemorate the Delta State Public Service Week, civil servants in the state participated in a ‘Walk for Health’ LAGOS DECEMBE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Government on Monday More...
Delta Govt. Faults FG Delay In Inauguration Of New NDDC Board
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Government has cautioned the Federal Government against her attempt to no neutralize the Niger Delta Commission ( NDDC), saying that the attempt might jeopardize More...
Catholic Priest Slumps And Dies During Novelty Match With Colleagues In Asaba
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Catholic priest has reportedly slumped and died while he was playing a football match with colleagues. A Daily Post report has shown that a priest of the Catholic Church, Rev. More...
Delta Police Declare Driver Missing With Company Truck, Goods
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have begun search for a middle aged man identified as Okeke Patrick Tochukwu who was said to have disappeared mysteriously with his More...
S/South Govs Shun Delta Security Summit As Journalists Lament Neglect By Okowa’s Aide
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governors of South-South region were absent at the Regional Police Security summit 2019, with only host Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state and his counterpart, Mr. Godwin More...