Delta: Six Die, Three Missing After Naval Gunboat Capsizes In Escravos
LAGOS JULY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Six persons, including a naval commander (name withheld) two youth corps members (name withheld) performing their primary assignment at NNS Delta, Warri Naval Base, were confirmed dead More...
Fuel Scarcity Traced To Vessels Stuck At Collapsed Escravos Breakwater In Delta
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Amid a short supply or non-availability of premium motor spirit, commonly known as petrol, in the country, eight vessels, including four laden with the product, are stuck at the More...
Delta: One Dead, 18 Hospitalised As Explosion Rocks Oil Rig At Escravos
LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-One person is feared dead, and no fewer than 18 staff of Brittania-U Company have been hospitalized following an explosion that rocked its FSO (MT ULTIMATE) rig at Escravos, Warri More...
‘Prolonged Delay By FG, Delta Govt May Result In Nigeria Losing $27bn Investment In Escravos’
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The lead promoter of the Escravos Seaport Industrial Complex project in Delta State, Mercury Maritime Concession Company, has said that Nigeria may lose $27.29bn investment in the More...
Chief Of Defence Staff Storms Warri, Warns Oil Thieves In Delta, Says No Hiding Place
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa has issued a warning to crude oil thieves, stating that there is no hiding place for them in the Delta region . The warning comes More...
Delta Presents C Of O Of 3,747 Hectares Of Land To Nigeria Navy
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Government, Tuesday, presented Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) for 3,747 hectares of land to the Nigerian Navy for its forward operation base in Escravos, Warri South More...
Nigeria Navy Reacts To Arrest Of Vessel Over Suspected Crude Oil Theft In Delta
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Authorities of the Nigerian Navy (NN) have reacted to news reports in some mainstream and online media, concerning the arrest of Motor Tanker (MT)PRAISEL, by a private security More...
Delta: 10 Crew Members Members Missing As Floating Oil Vessel Explodes In Excravos
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-A Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel with a capacity to process up to 22,000 barrels of oil per day, inject up to 40,000 barrels of water per day and store More...
Warri Port: NPA Sets To Dredge Escravos Channel As More Vessels Run Aground
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Following the shallow depth of the Escravos channel, a development that has reduced the number of vessels calling at the Warri port, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has commenced More...
Pirates Attack Vessel Off Escravos, Abduct Ten Seafarers
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ten seafarers were kidnapped yesterday from the general cargo vessel Milan while underway some 14 nautical miles off the Pennington Offshore Terminal in Nigeria. The vessel was More...
Fire Razes Jack-Up Barge In Escravos
LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A vessel belonging to a yet-to-be identified oil and gas company, located in Escravos, Warri South-West council area of Delta state, has been engulfed in flames. A video portraying 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...
Urhobo Group Calls For The Revitalization Of Moribund Delta Ports
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Urhobo Renaissance Movement (URM) has urged the Federal Government to revive the moribund ports in Warri, Sapele, Burutu, Koko, Forcados and Escravos in Delta State. In a statement More...
Niger Delta Avengers Strike Again, Blow Up Escravos Electricity Feed Pipeline
LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Niger Delta militants have struck again blowing up a major electricity feed pipeline located in the Escravos area of Delta State. The attack was announced by the Niger Delta Avengers More...
Expect More Attacks, New N’Delta Militant Group Tells FG
LAGOS MAY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of militants in the Niger Delta has declared that there will be more attacks and killings at major oil stations to cripple the economy until the Federal Government addresses More...
Nigeria Military Besiege N’Delta as Attack on Oil Installation Enter Day 3
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Attacks on oil installations in Delta State entered the third day, yesterday, as militants blew-up major crude oil and gas pipelines to the Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, Tank More...
Delta: Stay Clear of Escravos, Neglected Stakeholders Warn Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The recent bloody crisis that engulfed some Delta state riverine communities following the controversial $16 billion Gas City Project, which is located More...
PIB: N’Delta Graduates Rally Support For Diezani in Escravos
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)– A group of graduates under the auspices of Graduates Association of the Niger Delta (GAND) has staged a solidarity rally in defence of the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani-Allison More...
Delta: Fresh Gun Battle Threatens Ugborodo Peace Deal
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Fierce fighting between rival youth groups in Ugborodo, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, is threatening the peace deal in community, THEWILL can report. This More...
3 Corpses Recovered after Warri Shooting…As Delta Govt Denies Shooting
LAGOS JANURAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Sporadic shooting in oil rich Ugborodo Community in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have left three persons dead and others allegedly reported missing. This More...
Delta: One Dead, as Renew Crisis Rocks Itsekiri Community of Ugborodo
Mr Benson Dube spiritual head of Ogborode community (Centre on white) with agrieved members of Ogborode community LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At least one person was reported killed in a renewed hostility More...
Miracle: Warri Sailor Survives Two Days Under Sea In Shipwreck Air Bubble
Harrison Okene After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the More...
Delta State: Chevron Vessel Capsize in Escravos
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture, has confirmed that Jascon #4 vessel belonging to its contractor, West African Ventures Limited, has capsized and sank in the early hours More...