Converting Petrol Generators To Gas Dangerous, Risk Explosion-Delta Fire Service Warns
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is not yet uhuru for those converting their generating sets from premium motor spirit (petrol) to gas, as they risk explosion, director of Delta State fire service, Mr Eugene More...
Nigeria Governors Should Please Interfere In Rising Cost Of Gas, Onuesoke Begs
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has appealed to the thirty six states Governors of Nigeria to interfere in the incessant increase of domestic cooking More...
60 Bayelsa Communities Present Oil Spill Evidence To Environmental Panel
By Amos Okioma LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 60 communities and groups have presented evidence of oil-related devastation to the Bayelsa State Oil and Environmental Commission (BSOEC) chaired by the More...
‘Shell Contributes $29bn to Nigerian Purse Between 2012–2016’
L-R: Campaign Implementation Advisor, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), Mrs. Darbuni Maikori; Communications Manager, Shell Nigeria, Mrs. Sola Abulu and Corporate Media Relations Manager, Mr. More...
Consumers Groan as FG Hikes Cost of Cooking Gas
LAGOS JABUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Consumers of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) also known as cooking gas in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday decried an abrupt increase in the cost of re-filling the More...
Ijaw Community Raises Alarm Over Poisonous Air Pollution from Shell Gas Facility
By Amos Okioma LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents and indigenes of Tombia Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have raised the alarm over suspected poisonous air pollution allegedly emanating More...
NIMASA Vows to Enforce Safety Standard in Oil and Gas Sector
Dr Dakuku Peterside LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has assured stakeholders of it’s resolve to ensure that safety standards are not compromised More...
Research on Alternative Energy Instead of Oil, Onuesoke Advises FG
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) Chieftain and Delta State PDP Governorship aspirant in 2007 general election, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has advised the Federal Government More...
Transcorp Suspends N320bn Power plant Due to Gas Scarcity
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Transnational Corporation of Nigeria, Transcorp Plc has suspended plans to build one of the nation’s biggest power plants as local gas shortage makes it difficult to obtain fuel More...
Nigerians’ll Soon Experience the Benefits of My Reforms in the Oil Industry-Allison-Madueke
Mrs Deziani Allison-Madueke If you will recall, Urhobotoday has publish part one and two of series of interview conducted on the former Minister of Ministry of Petroleum, Mrs. Deziane Allison-Madueke. In the last More...
Nigerians Expect a Lot from You, Obasanjo Tells Buhari
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in group picture with APC Leaders LAGOS APRIL 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the President-elect Muhammadu Buhari to realize that Nigerians are expecting More...
Gas City Project: Ijaws, Itsekiris Sink Differences, Welcome Ground-Breaking Ceremony
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaws and Itsekiris Wednesday in Asaba resolved their differences over the Gas City Project and appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to fix a date for the ground-breaking ceremony. Rising More...
CONFAB: What has Urhobos Done Wrong to Jonathan?
Margi By Urhobo Conscientious Youths LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY) We wish to condemn in strong terms the near exclusion of the Urhobo people from the proposed National Conference due to commence on the 17th of More...
Delta: Warri Refinery Re-Opens this Week
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), which was recently shut down, following a fire outbreak, would resume operations this week. The Warri Depot Manager of the More...
Shell Gas Line Rupture Sparks Health Hazard, Panick in Niger Delta Community
A leakage from Multinational oil giant shell gas pipeline at Oloma community in Bonny Local Government area of Rivers state is said to have sparked up serious health worries for locals, including injuries sustained More...
Delta: Urhobo Youths Lament Neglect by Oil Companies, Threatens to Shut Down Oil Facilities
By Oghenekevwe Laba Urhobo youths youths in Delta State under the aegis of Udu Youth Council (UYC) has lamented neglect and marginalization by oil companies operating in Utorogun Gas Plant Phase 1 and 2 and the More...