FIRS Moves to Alleviate Drop in Government Revenue
Sunday Ogungbesan LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), an Agency saddle with the responsibility of generating revenue for the Federal Government of Nigeria with the mandate More...
Workers Loose Job over Asaba Airport Downgrade
Asaba Airport LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The federal government order for the downgrade of Asaba Airport has started taking its toll on workers as firms running the airport has started laying off some of their More...
Delta: FG Down Grade Asaba Airport over Safety Concerns
Asaba Airport LAGOS MAY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government has downgraded the Asaba Airport over the failure of the Delta State Government to put in place measures that would guarantee the safety and security More...
Bola Tinubu Linked to Drug-trafficking Cartel, Forfeits $.5m to US Govt
APC Chieftain, Bola Tinubu LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. More...
PRONACO Faults FG on CONFAB Resolution
LAGOS MARCH 19TH 9URHOBOTODAY)-Pro National Conference Organisation, PRONACO has carpeted Federal Government’s decision to implement some aspects of the resolutions of the national confab through constitution More...
FG Slashes Electricity Tariff By Over 50%
LAGOS MARCH 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)– If report reaching our newsroom is anything to go by, it means electricity consumers have every course heave a sigh of relief as the federal government of Nigeria has reduced electricity More...
FG Slashes Petrol Pump Price
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government on Sunday announced a reduction in the pump price of petrol by N10 from N97 to N87 per litre. The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, More...
FG Slashes Business Registration Cost For SMEs by 60 Percent
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government on Tuesday said it had reduced the costs of registering Small and Medium Scale Enterprises with the Corporate Affairs Commission More...
What Uduaghan Told Controversial Journalist, Fejiro Oliver about 2015 Delta Governor?
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan guessing who will be the next governor of Delta State LAGOS JULY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was on a very sunny day and PHCN guys refused to give us their light, and I was observing More...
Cecillia Ibru Drags FG to Court over Seizure of Oceanic Bank
Mrs Cecilia Ibru LAGOS JUNE 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday adjourned till 10 July to hear the suit instituted by former managing director of defunct More...
Fear Grips FG over Absence of CONFAB delegates at Plenary Session
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Fact have emerged that the Federal Government may have been expressing fear over the absence of more than half of the delegates at the ongoing National Conference plenary sessions, More...
Onuesoke Urges FG, Delta Govt to Focus on Mitigation effects of Climate Change
Hon Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Founder of Onuesoke Foundation, Hon Sunny Onuesoke has appealed to Federal and Delta State government on the need to focus on factors that will mitigate against More...
FG is Committing Genocide in Northern Nigeria- Nyako Alerts Northern Governors
Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has written a memo to the Northern Governors Forum titled, “On On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in ‘Northern Nigeria’. In the memo More...
NDDC: N’Delta Monarchs Drag FG To Court Over N500bn Rip Off
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The Federal Government has been dragged to court over alleged N500billion rip off. Traditional rulers from the oil producing states of the Niger Delta who dragged the Federal More...
Court Awards Sanusi N50m Damages, Orders Release of His International Passport
Lamido Sanusi LAGOS MARCH 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services from arresting or harassing the suspended Governor of the Central More...
Bishop Kukah Carpets FG, Says N7bn National Conference Bill is a Waste
Bishop Kukah LAGOS FEBRUAY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) Renowned cleric and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, has described the proposed N7billion meant for the forthcoming national conference as More...
Wasting Spree: Obasanjo Squanders N250m on Charles Taylor, Jonathan Spends N4tr without NASS Approval
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan accused of wasting Nigerian resources LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)– A few days after former president Olusegun Obasanjo daughter, Senator Iyabo More...
Urhobo Group Hails Introduction of National Confab
Comrade Sunny Basikoro By Theophilus Onojeghen The proposed National Conference by the Federal Government of Nigeria has been described as one the good things to have happened in the history of country, claiming More...
President Jonathan Applauds Edwin Clark Initiative of University of Technology
(L-R) Chief Edwin Clark and President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan heaped praise on foremost educator and political icon, Edwin Clark, who has commenced plans to More...
Delta State Forfeits Ibori’s $15 Million to Federal Government
Chief James Ibori LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has finally declared that the $15 million bribe money offered to the pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, More...
Delta Bye-Election: Urhobo Monarch Backs Emerhor, Says He’ll Liberate Urhobos
Olorogun O'tega Emerhor (middle), the Ovie of Udu Kingdom HRH Barristand his wife (standing next to him) when the Emerhor Campa By oghenekevwe Laba Urhobo Monarch, The Ovie of Udu kingdom, HRH, Barrister E.B.O. More...
Anxious Wait for FG, Delta State as Court Decides Beneficiary of Ibori’s $15m
James Ibori LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20th (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court in Abuja will today decide whether the $15 million allegedly abandoned by a former Delta State governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, should be forfeited More...
ASUU Strike and Government Relentless War against Education
By Eneruvie Enakoko It is now about three months that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on Strike, yet the government has refused to listen to the Union. Rather than engage in good faith More...
ASUU Strike: Students Give FG, ASUU 7-Day Ultimatum, Threaten to Declare “Operation Occupy Nigeria”
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peeved by almost two-month old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), yesterday issued a one-week ultimatum More...
Delta:FG to set up $16b petrochemical plant at Koko FTZ
LAGOS JULY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-THE setting up of Petrochemical plant and Gas processing facilities to be cited at the Koko Free Trade Zone FTZ, capable of generating 16 billion dollars investment is in the pipeline, More...