Why Buhari Dumps $182m Halliburton Bribe Scandal Report?…Conspiracy of Retired Army Generals
(l-r) Ibrahim Babangida,Olusegun Obsanjo and Muhammadu Buhari By George Elijah Otumu LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari surely meant well for the Nigerian people. His integrity, More...
Residents of Goodluck Jonathan’s Community, Otuoke Laments Scarcity Of Potable Water
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Mr Elijah Ateki, the Chairman, Community Development Committee (CDC), Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa, has bemoaned the scarcity of potable water in More...
Jonathan Doesn’t Drink Alcohol-Abati, Disagree on Probe
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan is not a drunkard, neither does he drink alcohol except wine, during special occasions, his former Special Adviser on Media and More...
Why Buhari is Hunting Jonathan’s Men?
Buhari and Oshiomole LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has shed more light on the real reasons president Muhammadu Buhari is after ex-president Goodluck Jonathan’s men. The More...
Peace Committee Did not Plead for Jonathan -Bishop Kukah
Bishop Kukah LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In an interview with SaharaTV, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sokoto and member of the National Peace Committee, denied recent allegations More...
Nigerians Impatient for Oil Sector Anti-Graft Reforms
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment of a Harvard-educated lawyer to run the state oil company demonstrates his anti-corruption resolve — but only More...
They’re Back with Full Force: Boko Haram’s Return Under Buhari
Buhari By Fisayo Soyombo LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In less than three months of Buhari’s reign, the gory era of terrorism is back in Nigeria. This is not the Nigeria that Muhammadu Buhari promised More...
Ex-President Jonathan’s Aide Returns N1.5bn Loot to FG
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A close security aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan who was recently interrogated by security agents, had refunded to the Federal Government the sum of N1.5 billion he allegedly More...
Group Faults Restructuring of DESOPADEC after NDDC Pattern
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Centre for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP has faulted the restructuring of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC More...
Former Aide to Ex- President Jonathan Condemns Crackdown on ‘Baby Factories’
Reno Omokri LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, has expressed displeasure over crackdown on “baby factories” in the country, More...
Multibillion Naira Contract Scam Rocks NDDC
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is reeking of a multibillion naira scam involving the board and top management of the agency. Documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES show More...
US Congress Woman Plans to Lead Five Others to Push for Release of Chibok Girls
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (at podium) chats with congregants of The Word of Life Bible Church on Sunday, July 26, 2015 about the #BringBackOurGirls movement and to update South Florida’s Nigerian community More...
Phones No Longer Ring- Reuben Abati, Says No Condition is Permanent
Reuben Abati LAGOS JULY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As spokesman to President Goodluck Jonathan, my phones rang endlessly and became more than personal navigators within the social space. They defined my entire life; dusk More...
Kingsley Kuku Speaks from US, Says He’ll Aide EFCC Unravel Shady Deals in Amnesty Office
Kingsley Kuku LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Immediate past Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Kingsley Kuku has said that he is ready to assist the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission More...
Tompolo, MEND Leaders Regroup on Saturday in Bayelsa
Tompolo LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND and High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, yesterday, summoned commanders and leaders of More...
Urhobo Progress Union To Establish Pan Urhobo Bank, to Woo Dangote, Other Investors
LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The President General of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Chief Joe Orode Omene has said that the union was working on a proposal to establish a pan Urhobo Bank. Chief Omene disclosed More...
Obasanjo Accuses Jonathan, Soyinka of Attacking Him
Obasanjo (l) and Jonathan (r) LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Barely one week, after he defended his choice of successor in 2007, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pointedly accused former President Goodluck More...
Buhari, Obasanjo @ Cross Road: Former President Seeking Return to PDP
Obasanjo and Buhari LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-There are indications that Ex President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who publicly ripped his party’s membership card, is scheming to return to the party through the back More...
U.S. to Trace Nigerian Stolen Assets, Boost Military Assistant
US President Barack Obama LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The United States will offer to help Nigeria’s new leader track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and increase U.S. military assistance More...
N’Delta Activists Raise Alarm, Say Buhari Wants to Send Jonathan to Prison
Buhari and Jonathan LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A coalition of Niger-Delta activists under the aegis of Vanguards of Nigeria’s Democracy on Saturday said it has uncovered clandestine moves by President Muhammadu More...
Buhari Lied, Jonathan Generated Funds Used For Bailout – NLNG
President Muhammadu Buhari (l) and Ex-President Goodluck Jonahan LAGOS JULY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Managing Director of Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, Ltd, Babs Omotowa has insisted that the N1.2 trillion More...
Boko Haram Offers to Swap Chibok Girls for Detained Members
LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram is ready to free the more than 200 Chibok young women and girls kidnapped from a boarding school in 2014, the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday quoted an unnamed negotiator More...
Nigeria’s President , Buhari Opens the Door to Talks With Boko Whom?
Muhammadu Buhariari, By By Philip Obaji Jr LAGOS JULY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Buhari’s expressed openness to talk with the terrorists could be a sign of weakness, a prelude to intensified war, or both. ABUJA— More...
Nigerian Billionaires Yet To Fulfill Pledges to Terrorist Victims
LAGOS JULY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A large number of Nigeria’s wealthiest business leaders who pledged more than $400 million last year to support victims of terrorist attacks in Nigeria are yet to redeem their pledges. Last More...
Nigerians Condemn Buhari’s Lopsided Appointments, Advise Him to Respect Principle of Federal Character
Buhari LAGOS JULY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerians especially those from the Southern part of the country on Friday, expressed concern over the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari. They said the appointments More...