Delta: Security Agents Allegedly Open Fire On Abraka Residents Protesting Against Incessant Kidnappings
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Security agents allegedly opened fire on unarmed residents protesting the never-ending kidnapping in Abraka community, Ethiope East Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday. Vanguard More...
Oborevwori Threatens To Fire Under Performing Commissioners
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Sheriff Oborevwori, governor of Delta state, says he will drop underperforming commissioners from his cabinet. Oborevwori spoke on Monday during the inauguration of the newly constructed More...
Delta: Firefighters Helpless As Fire Razes Ex-JFM Building In Effurun
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An afternoon fire has razed parts of the former JFM building in Effurun, Delta state, with fears of a fast spread to other buildings within the area. Details of the cause of the More...
Delta:706 Ballot Boxes, Generators, Other Items Destroyed As Fire Razes INEC Office Ika
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed a fire outbreak in its office at Owa-Oyibu Headquarters of Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State. During 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...
Cooking Gas Explosion Razes Multiple Shops In Igbudu Market, Warri, Delta
LAGOS JULY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Not less than 20 shops were gutted by fire as a cooking gas cylinder used by an operator of a local canteen exploded on Wednesday morning at the popular Nupe line in Igbudu Market, More...
Fire Razes Popular Cinema House In Asaba
LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A popular cinema house in Asaba, Delta state capital, was yesterday gutted by fire. The fire at Cartage Cinema located on Okpanam road, Oshimili North local government area, fire started More...
Traders Make Futile Efforts To Salvage Their Goods As Fire Razes Shops In Ekpan Roundabout
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Several shops were on Friday night razed down in a fire incident along the popular Complex Road by the Ekpan Roundabout in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State. Many More...
Fire Destroys Million Of Naira Goods In Sapele
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A devastating inferno tore through a row of stores located at Okirighre, just opposite the Sapele Main Garage, reducing five businesses to ashes and incurring massive losses worth More...
Traders Lose Million As Fire Guts Water Side Area Of Sapele Main
LAGOS MAY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was a sad day for traders in Sapele Market as traders lament loss of goods worth millions of naira to an early morning fire outbreak. Eye witness account had it that the fire started More...
Traders Count Loses As Fire Razes Igbudu Market, Warri
LAGOS MMAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some shops at the popular Igbudu Market along the Bazunu axis in Warri South Local Government Area have been gutted by fire. The cause of the fire could not be verified at the time More...
Polls: Okowa Fire Six Political Aides Over Alleged Anti-Party Activities
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has terminated the appointment of six of his political aides. The affected More...
Fire Razes Delta College Of Education On Christmas Day
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A section of the Works Department building, Campus 1 of the Delta State College of Education, Mosogar, has been razed by fire. Witnesses said that the inferno which occurred on More...
Fire Guts Newly Procured Warri-Itakpe Standard Train Gauge
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-One of the newly procured Warri-Itakpe standard gauge train coaches was on Tuesday evening gutted by fire. This is even as a video trending online showed Nigerian Railway Workers More...
Fire Razes Federal Secretariat, Destroys Delta NYSC Office In Asaba
File Photo LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Property worth millions of naira and vital documents were yesterday destroyed by an early morning inferno that gutted the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) office at the More...
Gas Plant Explosion Kill One, Scores Roasted, Houses Razed In Agbor
Fire fighters trying to bring the fire under control LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Apprehension, Friday night enveloped Agbor, headquarters of Ika South Local Government Area, as a gas plant, Osadebe Gas Plant 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...
Mysterious Fire Razes Residence Of Okowa’s Aide In Ughelli
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A mysterious fire that started on Saturday morning razed down the residence of Governor Okowa’s Special Assistant in Ughelli. Simply identified as Hon Egbo aka Last Mugu, the SA More...
Fire Razes Asaba Church During Service
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The building which houses a new generation Church in Asaba, Delta state, Charismatic Renewal Ministries Inc. (CRM), aka Transformation Faith Centre, yesterday went up in flames More...
Fire Razes DESOPADEC Project Located In Evwreni
By Young Erhuirhoro LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A full completed but yet to commission vocational and skill acquisition centre built by Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC), an More...
Gas Explosion Averted As Fire Engulfs Heritage Energy Facility In Warri
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A gas explosion has been reportedly averted as fire engulfed a hydrocarbon facility operated by Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (HEOSL), in Egbokodo community of Warri More...
Inferno Razes Aladja Grammar School Building In Delta State
File photo LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Barely 24 hours after a building was gutted by fire at Third Marine Gate in the heart of Warri, another building, a secondary school, was on Friday engulfed by fire at More...
Fire Razes Asaba Multi-Million Naira Asaba Timber Market
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A multi-million naira timber market in Asaba, Delta State, was razed by fire at the weekend. The market is located just behind the Chiedu Okoh Plaza, along the Onitsha/Asaba Expressway More...
Horror: Mother Loses Three Children In Sapele Inferno
File photo LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-A mysterious fire outbreak in a Delta state community has roasted three children of the same parents. Property worth several millions of Naira were also destroyed by More...
Delta: Fire Wreak Havoc In Ogbe-Ijoh Market, Destroys Million Naira Goods
File Photo LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The economic stay of traders and shop owners at Ogbe-Ijoh market and Concrete Jetty Waterside are in ruins as they lose goods worth more than millions of naira to a fire More...