Ijaw Group Cries Out Over Military Harassment Of Kinsmen In Warri
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Niger Delta Group under the auspices of the Ijaw Peoples Development Initiative, IPDI, has accused the Nigerian Military of harassing indigenes and residents of Beneath Community More...
Gunmen Kill Ex- Delta Marine School Provost, Johnson Dittimi In E.K. Clark’s Village
Johnson Dittimi LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (URHOBODAY)-Suspected assassins, at about 8pm on Thursday night of December 7 shot dead the pioneer provost of the Delta State School of Marine Technology, DESOMATEC, Dr. Johnson 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...
Okowa Receives Committee’s Report on Aladja/Ogbe-Ijoh Crisis, Sues for Peaceful Co-Existence
Prof Abednego presenting the reports to Gov. Okowa By Barth Ndego LAGOS MARCH 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has received reports from the committee set up to resolve the land dispute More...
Newly Elected UPU President General, Taiga Promises to Build Bridges Across Ethnic Lines
Olorogun Moses Taiga LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Newly elected President General of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Chief Moses Taiga, has vowed to build bridges of unity across all ethnic nationalities in Delta More...
MEND Joins ‘Wailing Wailers’, Passes Vote of No Confidence on Buhari
Buhari LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta [MEND] has joined the popular ‘wailing wailers’ and has currently passed a vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu More...
JUST IN: Delta APC Leader, Senator Frances Okpozo Passes On
Senator Frnacis Okpozo LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Second Republic senator and chieftain of All Progressive Congress, APC, Senator Francis Spanner Okpozo is dead. Details of his death were still sketchy as 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...
Ijaw/Urhobo Crisis: Ijaw Youth Council Sue for Peace
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Foremost sociocultural group in the Niger Delta, the Ijaw Youth Council, IYC Worldwide have appealed to the Urhobo youth leadership over a 14 days ultimatum handed out for Ijaws More...
Delta: Seven Missing, Houses Set Ablaze as Ijaw, Urhobo Communities Clash Escalates
Delta CP Zanna Ibrahim LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Seven residents were reportedly abducted and houses torched in Ayama, Udu council area, Delta state as the community’s clash with neighboring Isaba, Warri More...
Urhobo Youths Summit and Matters Arising in Niger Delta
By Sunny Awhefeada LAGOS OCTOBER 26TTH (URHOBOTODAY)-Come Saturday 29 October 2016, Urhobo youths will gather in Warri for the Urhobo youth summit organized by the youth wing of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU). More...
Urhobo Progress Union Inaugurates New Executive Members in Bayelsa State
By Amos Okioma LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Urhobos resident in Bayelsa State under the aegis of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has sworn in new executive members to run their affairs for the next three More...
Delta Police Avert Crisis Between Urhobo, Ijaw Youths in Warri
IGP Idris LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Just few weeks after peace was brokered between warring Urhobo and Ijaw youths in Warri, Delta State, another bloody ethnic crisis was averted in Warri between youths of More...
Ijaw, Urhobo Communities Sign Peace Pact over Ownership of Dsiputed Ogbe-Ijoh Market
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Agbassa and Ogbe-Ijoh Communities in Warri South Local Government Area, Tuesday signed a peace pact pending the determination of the Delta State Government on the ownership of the More...
Sad:Four Dead in Boat Mishap on Trip to Tompolo Father’s Funeral
Tompolo’s father corpse arrived in Gbaramatu LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Four people were feared dead in Warri River on Friday in a boat mishap involving the funeral party to the burial of late Thomas 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...
Militancy: Itsekiri, Ijaw Groups Differ over Talks with FG
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-An Ijaw group, Niger Delta Security Watch Organisation, NDSWO, has differed with the Warri Study Group, WSG, an Itsekiri group, over the latter’s denunciation of the purported More...
Celebration of Delta @ 25 And Ifeanyi Okowa’s Blunder
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa (Centre) during the celebration of Delta @ 25 recently at Asaba, Delta State By Fejiro Oliver LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The celebration of Delta at 25 may have come and More...
Itsekiri Urge FG to Deal with Those Fronting For Militants as Dialogue Group
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government has been advised to be cautious of those parading themselves as Niger Delta stakeholders pressuring it to dialogue with them and those stoking the insurgency More...
Ex- DESOPADEC Commissioner Hails Leaders’ Decision to Back Clark in Resolving N’Delta Crisis
Sir Keny Okolugbo LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A public affairs analyst and former Commissioner with the Delta State Oil Producing Communities Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Ken Okolugbo, has praised the More...
Oil Producing Communities Raise Alarm, Says Okowa is Killing DESOPADEC
Delta State Governor, Ddr Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Oil producing communities in Delta State on Sunday raised an alarm that the state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, is working underground to ground More...
Urhobo Political Movement Passes Vote of Confidence on Buhari, Says His Govt. Ends Era of Impunity
President Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Urhobo organization under the aegis of Urhobo Political Movement (UPM) has passed vote of confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government saying More...
Military Dispels Rumour of Killing Innocent People as Offensive Against Lagos, Ogun Militants Continues
LAGOS JULY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigeria military has dispelled rumour of killing innocent people as offensive against pipeline oil thieves operating at Ishawo, Igando and Igbolomu areas of Ikorodu in Lagos, 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...
Nigeria Army Bows to Pressure, Releases Detained Tompolo’s Associates
LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The 3rd Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Effurun on Thursday night bowed to pressure from groups and ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias “Tomopolo” with the release More...