Delta:$300m Fully Paid for Ughelli Power Plant
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Pan-African proprietary investment company Heirs Holdings majority owned Transcorp has completed the full financing for the $300-million Ughelli power plant in Delta State, Nigeria, More...
Delta to Prosecute Parents of ‘Out-of-School’ Children
LAGOS AGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education in Delta State, Patrick Muoboghare, has threatened to prosecute parents who allow their children roam the streets during school More...
Group Accuses Governors of Mismanaging N8.1tr Derivation Fund, Calls for EFCC Probe
By Theophilus Onojeghen Governors of Niger Delta oil producing states of Delta, Edo, Ondo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross-Rivers, Abia, Awka-Ibom and Imo have been accused of mismanaging 8.1 trillion naira meant for the More...
Delta: Two Escapee Ugwashi-Uku Prison Inmates Recaptured
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Two inmates who escaped from the Ogwashi-Uku Prison at different dates have been recaptured after massive man haunt and intelligence gathering by officers and men of the Delta State More...
Orubebe is Disgracing Himself, not E. K. Clark–Alhaji Isa Clark
Alhaji Isa Clark Alhaji Isa Clark is a Lagos based Lawyer, Coordinator of Delta South Senatorial Zone of Federal SURE-P Programme and a junior brother to Elder Statesman and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strong More...
Delta: Burutu People Petition Jonathan, Minister over Alleged Sale of Land
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Members of Burutu community in Delta State have petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan and the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, over the alleged More...
Anioma Group Blasts Delta Lawmakers over N1.2b US Leadership Capacity Training
Delta lawmakers receiving lecturer in US By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Board of Trustees and entire members of Anioma Voice Worldwide has expressed utter dismay, total disapproval and More...
Delta State: How Petroleum University Was Looted For Six Years
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)– The Acting Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Prof Albassan Bichi, has given a graphic detail of how the institution was looted for about six years. Lamenting More...
JTF Nabs 14 Suspected Crude Oil Thieves in Delta, Bayelsa
JTF patroling Niger Delta creeks LAGOS JUNE 24TH ( URHOBOTODAY) The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) code named Operation Pulo Shield has arrested of 13 persons in Delta and Rivers states over their alleged involvement More...
Ijaw Communities Renew Support for Orubebe, Express Dismay over Clark’s Attack
Elder Godsday Orubebe LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) Ijaws in Delta State on Wednesday renewed their support for the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe’s governorship ambition if he decides More...
REVEALED: How APC Plans to Win 2015 Presidency
NEWLY formed opposition political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has mapped out a formidable strategy to dislodge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power come 2015, Sunday Tribune can More...
Bayelsa Community, Agge to Get World Class Sea Port
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Seriake Dickson The hope of the people of Agge community seeing their community transform into an economic hub received a boost last week, following the presentation of the survey More...
Unbelievable: Security Agents Arrest ‘Pregnant Men’ In Asaba
Asaba vigilante security agents have arrested six “Pregnant men” who disguised as beggars to solicit for arms in Asaba and its environs. The vigilante group member, Emeka Igwele who confirmed the arrest of More...
Delta CP Accuses Militias of Retaining Arms Used in Warri War
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Ayodele Aduba says guns used by ethnic militias during the Warri fratricidal war are still in the hands More...
Produce Kidnap Kingpin or No Staff of Office, Uduaghan Tells Urhobo Monarch
Delta State Governor Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan Produce Kidnap Kingpin or No Staff of Office, Uduaghan Tells Urhobo Monarch Asaba—GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, has said that the state will explore “every More...
Tragedy: Brother Stabs Sister to Death over Dish of Indomie in Warri
Tragedy struck in the heart of Warri Tuesday May 28 when a secondary school dropout by the name Israel stabbed his elder sister, Tejiri to death over the elder sister’s refusal to give him a cooked Indomie noodles. Report More...
Uduaghan Blames NGF Crisis on External Forces
DElta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan The Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan on Saturday said the leadership crisis currently rocking the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has ‘lots of input from the More...
Delta State Governorship Hopeful Senator Okowa In Trouble Over Fraud
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa As the race for the 2015 Governorship election hots up in Delta State, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa who More...
Delta Police Smashes Five-Man Kidnap Gang in Warri …Confess to Kidnap of Owner of Daddy Bakery
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba WARRI 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)Operatives of the Delta State Special Security Patrol code-named Dragon 30, have smashed a five-man gang of armed robbers/kidnappers More...
Three Human Traffickers Sentence to 5yrs Each in Warri
A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State on Friday May 17 sentenced three persons, Alex Ehidiamen, Kingsley Uzoma and Ehijoba Favour to five years imprisonment each for deceitfully inducing their victims More...
National Dialogue Remains Nigeria’s Antidote to Disintegration–Urhobo Monarch
The Ovie of Umiaghwa-Abraka Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ochuko Ararile (rtd) LAGOS MAY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY) The Ovie of Umiaghwa-Abraka Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Air Vice Marshal Lucky Ochuko More...
JTF Destroys 748 Illegal Refineries, Arrests 498 suspects 51 Kidnappers
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, said on Tuesday that it had destroyed 748 illegal refineries in the region within the last four months. The JTF also disclosed that it arrested More...