US Congress Woman Plans to Lead Five Others to Push for Release of Chibok Girls
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (at podium) chats with congregants of The Word of Life Bible Church on Sunday, July 26, 2015 about the #BringBackOurGirls movement and to update South Florida’s Nigerian community More...
Borno, Yobe Governors Raise Alarm, Says Boko Haram is in Possession of Five Local Govt Areas
LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram Islamists are still holding on to some territories in Nigeria’s troubled northeast, state governors from the region said on Thursday, after the military claimed More...
Buhari Returns Home Without U.S. Arms Deal
Buhari back to Nigeria without US arms deal LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned home from a Washington visit with no agreement from the United States to sell weapons. More...
Buhari Slams US for Indirectly Boosting Boko Haram Strenght
Buhari and Obama LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Two days after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told an audience in Washington, D.C., that a refusal More...
Boko Haram’ll Be Defeated within 18 Months or Less- Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari (l) and US Secretary of States John Kerry during press briefing LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday a multinational African force will be More...
Bloody Sallah as Multiple Blasts Kill 64, Injured 75 in Gombe, Damaturu
LAGOS JULY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian officials say suicide bombs have killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in the northeastern towns of Gombe and Damaturu, scaring people into staying home during the More...
Muhammadu Buhari Sacks Military Chiefs
LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the army, navy and air force chiefs, his spokesman has told the BBC. Mr Buhari is expected to announce their replacements soon. This More...
Boko Haram Fighters, Soldier Killed in Failed Prison Attack in Niger
LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on the prison in the southern Niger town of Diffa late on Saturday, military sources said, in an apparent bid to free fellow members More...
Amaechi, Pastor Bakare, Farouk Adamu, Five Governors on Buhari’s 18-Man Delegation to the US
Buhari LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Five State Governors including those of Oyo State, Imo State, Edo State and two others will accompany President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States when he meets President More...
Boko Haram Militants Take Over Damaturu-Maiduguri Road
LAGOS JULY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Reports reaching PREMIUM TIMES say Boko Haram militants have taken over the highway linking Maiduguri and Damaturu, capitals of Borno and Yobe states respectively. A police officer More...
Boko Haram Offers to Swap Chibok Girls for Detained Members
LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram is ready to free the more than 200 Chibok young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in 2014, the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday quoted an unnamed negotiator More...
Death Threat: Boko Haram Declares ‘Fatwa’ on THISDAY Features Editor, Adeola Akinremi
LAGOS JULY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have declared ‘fatwal’ on THISDAY newspaper Feature Editor, Adeola Akinremi threatening to kill him for writing a story against the sect. The More...
Nigeria’s President , Buhari Opens the Door to Talks With Boko Whom?
Muhammadu Buhariari, By By Philip Obaji Jr LAGOS JULY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Buhari’s expressed openness to talk with the terrorists could be a sign of weakness, a prelude to intensified war, or both. ABUJA— More...
Bomb Blast Kills 20 in Sabon-Gari,Zaria
LAGOS JULY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Tuesday bombed Sabon Gari area of Zaria in Kaduna state, killing no fewer than 20 people. Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai confirmed the attack More...
Boko Haram Massacre 150 Muslim Worshippers in North Eastern Villages
LAGOS JULY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) – Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed nearly 150 people in northeastern Nigerian villages, mowing down men and children while they prayed in mosques and shooting women More...
Buhari Goes From Nigeria’s Change Champion to ‘Baba Go Slow’
Buhari LAGOS JULY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took office a month ago on a wave of hope that he would quickly deal with a deepening economic crisis and an Islamist insurgency in the north. More...
Buhari’s Priority is Genocide-for-Oil, not Boko Haram
Buhari By Prof Chinweizu LAGOS JUNE 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Buhari’s priority is Genocide-for-oil, not Boko Haram, or corruption or the fuel, power shortages etc. that he claimed. In his Inaugural speech on May 29, 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...
63 Killed as Sack of Abandoned Boko Haram Bombs Exploded
Shekau LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A sack of home-made bombs discovered at an abandoned Boko Haram camp exploded, killing 63 people in northeast Nigeria, civilian self-defense fighters said Wednesday. An Associated More...
Military Bows to Buhari, Moves Command, Control Centre to Maiduguri Tomorrow
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Following President Muhammad Buhari’s directives to military to move its command centre to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital fight Boko Haram sect, the authorities of the Nigerian More...
Buhari To Announce Youth Empowerment Program To Tackle Unemployment, Insecurity and ‘Social Ills’
Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS JUNE 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will soon announce a comprehensive youth empowerment program to tackle unemployment, insecurity and other More...
Suicide Bomber Kill 50 in Maiduguri Butcher’s Market
Shekau LAGOS JUNE 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-A bomb blast hit a busy market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing as many as 50 people, according to eyewitnesses. A man blew himself up at More...
Buhari’s First Blunder as Nigeria’s President
President Muhammau Buhari LAGOS MAY 30TH URHOBOTODAY)-A political analyst, Mr. Ifeduba ThankGod has criticised the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to relocate the central command of the military to Maiduguri, More...
UNICEF Laments Use of Children as Suicide Bombers, Says Boko Haram Conflict Uprooted 743,000 Children
Displaced children in IDP camp in Northern Nigeria LAGOS MAY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)- As the world celebrate children’s day today, the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF) has lamented the use of children as suicide More...
Onuesoke Advises Buhari to Concentrate on Implementation of Campaign Promises
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS MAY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has appealed to President-Elect, Muhammadu Buhari to talk less and concentrate on how More...