Spare Parts Dealer Bags Ten Years Imprisonment for Trafficking 10.6kg of Heroin
Okeke Chika LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Honourable Justice Sale Kogo Idrissa of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano has sentenced an automobile parts dealer, Okeke Chika Victor to ten years imprisonment More...
Onuesoke Hails Obasanjo’s Submissions on Buhari’s Administration
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain Sunny Onuesoke hailed the submission of former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in which More...
Eight Governors, Ministers, Others to Attend Retreat on Revenue Generation in Kano
Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Eight state governors, Ministers, Chief Executives of various government revenue-generating agencies, Directors of Accounts and Audit as well as Revenue More...
Buhari’s Popularity has Dropped – APC Chairman, Oyegun
Oyegun and Buhari LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has admitted that President Muhammadu Buhari is no longer popular like he was during More...
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...
Soyinka Lambasts Buhari over Herdsmen killings
Wole Soyinka LAGOS APRIL 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lashed out at the presidency for its seeming inability to rein in the violent activities of herdsmen across the country. In his address More...
EXPOSE: 500 Secretly Recruited Immigration Officers Undergo Training in Kano
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite the embargo placed by the Federal Government on recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the agency may have commenced a secret exercise to recruit hundreds More...
Delta State Govt Promises to Fully Participate in Rehabilitation of Ese Oruru
Ese Oruru LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-On Wednesday, the Delta State government promised to fully participate in the rehabilitation process for 14-year-old abductee Ese Oruru and to return her to school after More...
Just in: Yinusa Arraigned in Court over ESE Oruru’s Abduction
Yunusa LAGOS AMRCH 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Made to coincide with a day being celebrated as the International Women Day, Yinusa Dahiru, alias Yellow – the alleged abductor of the 14 years old Ese Oruru, was on Tuesday More...
Dickson Receives Ese Oruru, Orders Prosecution Of Abductors
Dickson LAGOS MARCH 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Henry Seriake Dickson, has called for a comprehensive investigation into the abduction and subsequent prosecution of the culprits of 14 year old More...
Three-Day Rice Fair Holds in Lagos… To Exhibit 13 Major Nigerian Rice Brand
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The stage is set for a three-day fair targeted at boosting Nigeria’s quest to attain self-sufficiency in rice production and processing. Organized by Growth and Employment in More...
Attack on Yola IDP Camp and Matters Arising
By Alex O. Atawa-Akpodiete* LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Every nation faces its own unique security challenges. In some countries, it is the proliferation of small arms, while others are saddled with secessionist More...
Security: US,UK,Canada Warn Citizens to Stay Clear of Twenty Two States in Nigeria
David Cameon LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-In spite of the weakening of Boko Haram’s capacity to carry out large-scale attacks against civilians and soldiers by Nigerian troops in the North-East, the United 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...
UNICEF, Media Experts Brainstorm on Solution to Child Malnutrition in Kano
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A two-day media dialogue on child malnutrition with the theme: “Spend more money on nutrition”- #StopChildMalnutritionNigeria, kicked off on Thursday in Kano. The dialogue, organized More...
Muslims Set Court Ablaze in Kano over ‘Insult’ to Muhammad
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS MAY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY) — Hundreds of rioting Muslims set a Shariah court ablaze Friday in Nigeria’s northern Kano city, protesting its decision to free a cleric accused of insulting More...
PDP Raises Alarm, Alleges APC Plots to Take Over Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers
LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, raised alarm that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was plotting to take over Akwa Ibom, Delta and Rivers More...
Nigerian Students Slam Kano Government for Removing Jonathan’s Portrait
LAGOS MAY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone B has condemn in strong term the undemocratic behaviour of government personnel’s attached to Kano State Government More...
INEC Resident Commissioner, Wife, Children Killed In “Strange” Fire Incident
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)- The Resident Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commissioner in Kano, Mikaila Abdulahi, has died, a PREMIUM TIMES correspondent in Kano has said. He quoted some neighbours 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...
Nigeria Election: Christians Flee Kano over Fear of Violence
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An exodus from the mainly Christian quarter of Kano, the commercial centre of northern Nigeria, is taking place ahead of elections this weekend, because of fears of violence. The More...
Boko Haram Resorts to Total Gorilla Warfare on Nigerians
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)- – Bomb attacks in Nigerian towns and cities look likely to increase in the run-up to forthcoming elections, despite the military claiming increasing successes against Boko More...
Tambuwal Stops APC Attempts to Take Over Control of House of Reps
Aminu Tambuwal LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-With the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the majority in the House of Reps, a plot by the federal lawmakers from APC to effect a leadership change More...
Don’t Threaten Danjuma, ACF Warns Tompolo, Dokubo
Tompolo and Dokubo LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has warned Niger Delta ex-militants not to threaten a former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Theophilus More...