EIDB Int’l To Finance $27.29bn Escravos Seaport Project
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu got a boost to the Marine and Blue economy initiative as the EDIB International Limited of Hong Kong More...
Delta Polls: INEC Confirms Supplementary Elections In Two LGAs
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Confirmation has been received from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that supplementary elections for the governorship and House of Assembly will take place in More...
2023: Tinubu Presidency Will Ensure Abandoned EPZ Project Becomes Reality – Omo-Agege
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Deputy President of the Senate and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said the now-abandoned Export More...
Okowa Brokers Peace Between Warring Urhobo, Ijaw Communities
LAGOS JULY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State governor Ifeayin Okowa has sued for peace between warring Aladja and Gbaramatu communities. He called for an emergency meeting between the two communities. He called More...
N’Delta: Boroh, Entourage Storm Tompolo’s Community Ahead of Vice President’s Visit
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In his efforts to prepare for the Vice President visit to Niger Delta, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, More...
Tompolo’s Father Dies at 84, Weeks after Alleged Military Brutality
Thomas Osen Ekpemupolo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The father of a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (also known as Tompolo), is dead, the Gbaramatu Voice, a community newspaper in Gbaramatu Kingdom, More...
Operation Crocodile Smile: Food, Transportation Crises Hit Delta, Bayelsa
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)—Several riverine communities, including Oporoza and Ogulagha in Delta State, and Ezetu, Aggeh and others in Bayelsa State, have been struck by food and transportation crises More...
E.K. Clark Insists FG, Militants Dialogue Will Be Fruitless Without Ijaw Leaders
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS JULY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaw national leader Chief Edwin Clark said on Saturday that any dialogue between the Federal Government and militants in the Niger Delta would not yield result More...
Tompolo Contacts Delta Deputy Gov, Says He’s Being Tempted To Return To Militancy
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), who is currently been hunted by security agents over allegations of fraud leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes 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...
Tension in Delta Waterways as Tompolo ‘Stops’ Okowa’s Aide from Executing Contract Work at EPZ Site
Tompolo LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Fresh tension is mounting in the Delta Waterways as ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), Saturday, allegedly deployed some ex-militants to stop More...
EPZ Saga: My Take is on Justice, Equity and Fairness- Tompolo
Tompolo LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-So much has been said about the $16 Billion Export Processing zone(EPZ)which is meant to galvanize Nigeria’s economic growth through adequate gas processing and supply, More...
$16bn EPZ Saga: Tompolo’s Boys Abduct Journalists, Others On Delta Waterways
TOMPOLO LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The crisis trailing the botched groundbreaking of the $16billion EPZ Delta City Gas Project in Delta State by President Goodluck Jonathan, Sunday, took a dramatic twist More...
“One Million Tompolos Cannot Threaten Or Intimidate Us,” Keyamo Tells Jonathan
Festus Keyamo LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Following claims of continued threats from former Niger Delta militant Tompolo against the Ugbodoro community in Warri, Delta State, human rights attorney Festus Keyamo More...