Nigeria Commissions Experts to Tackle Massive Tomato Scarcity
LAGOS MAY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, on Tuesday said his office had commissioned experts to look into the massive tomato scarcity that has hit the More...
Why Dangote Suspends Production Of Tomato Paste in Newly Commissioned $20m Factory
Dangote LAGOS MAY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Dangote Tomato Processing Factory, a newly commissioned company owned by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has suspended its operations due to the unavailability of its More...
ELECTION FALLOUT: PDP Rejects Results in Kano, Six Other States
INEC Boss Prof Atahiru Jega LAGOS MARCH 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday called on INEC to cancel the results in Kano, Gombe, Kaduna, Jigawa, Katsina, Bauchi and Kogi states. The party said More...
Jonathan Sends Obanikoro’s Name, 7 Others Ministerial Nominees to Senate for Screening and Approval
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sent eight ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and approval. The names, contained in a letter signed More...
Presidential Ballot Papers Found in Premises of Local London Printer
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ballots meant for the Nigerian presidential election were found yesterday at the premises of a local printer in the Essex area of London. Our sources said the sensitive election More...
NYSC Suspends Orientation Programmes in Six States Over Ebola
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Thursday announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programmes of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation Course in six states More...
Revisiting Urhobo Stand on National Conference
By Dr Ighorodje The UPU memorandum to the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference is profoundly thought provoking and illuminating. At page two, paragraph three, it stated: “Some states with population More...
N3 Billion Jigawa SURE-P Money Traced to Sule Lamido’s Sons Accounts
LAGOSS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Security sources hinted that rather than remit the SURE-P funds to beneficiaries; the Lamidos converted the funds to personal use. “We have discovered from our preliminary investigations More...
BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Lamido’s Sons in EFCC Net over Alleged N10b. fraud
Aminu Sule Lamido LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two sons of Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido, over an alleged N10billion fraud. Aminu and Mustapha More...
More Ministers to Go, as Lobbyist Struggle over Ministerial Appointments
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-As the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deepens, there are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan may sack more ministers More...
2015: New PDP Makes ‘U’ Drops Demand for Jonathan to Quit
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)As the meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the aggrieved G-7 governors and other leaders of the Abubakar Kawu Baraje faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, got More...
New PDP State Chairmen Loyal to Agrieved Govs Shun Pro-Jonathan Press Conference
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS September 10th (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the seven states whose governors belong to a new PDP faction, shunned a press conference organized More...
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Obasanjo Lashes Back at Clark, Says He Should Retire from Politics and Not Him
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obsanjo on Saturday replied Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark’s comment on him, saying his utterances showed it was time for him (Clark) to More...
PDP Crisis Deepens as Atiku, 7 Governors, Walk Out of PDP Convention, Elect Own Executives
The breakaway PDP members LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Seven governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have walked out of the ongoing special delegates convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), More...
2015: Northern Leaders Clash over Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AGUST 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mohammed Abba Gana, has come under attack from northern political leaders for daring to canvass for four more More...
That Edwin Clark Apology!
Chief Edwin Clark By Onochie Anibeze Chief E. K. Clark may not be the most popular politician in the country. There are people who dread him for his harsh criticisms. They do everything to avoid him. Clark could More...
Amaechi: Jonathan Second Term under Threat as 10 Govs Set to Dump PDP
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (URHOBOTODAY) — A major setback to the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan is looming, as no fewer than 10 governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have More...
Northern Elder Yakasai, Blasts Obasanjo for Condemning Jonathan
(L-R) Chief OLusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan KANO — Elder statesman Salihu Abubakar Tanko Yakasai, yesterday, berated former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his constant criticisms of President More...
Obasanjo is a Problem to Nigeria – N-Delta Monarch
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo WARRI— FORMER National President of Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, and Pere of Seimbiri Kingdom, in Delta State, HRM Charles Ayemi-Botu, More...
2015: Obasanjo Backs Lamido, Says He is Competent to Rule Nigeria
Former President of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido in Dutse yesterday Apparently referring to the current high-wire politics and horse-trading ahead of 2015, former president More...
2015: Lamido, Amaechi’s Posters Flood Abuja * I’ve no hand in it — Amaechi
Rivers State Governor, Hon Chibuike Amaechi ABUJA — AS impeachment threat dangles before embattled Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi , posters bearing his photograph and that of his Jigawa counterpart, More...