NDDC Board: Militants Accuse Akpabio of Appeasing Tompolo With $1m To Backdown
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Militant groups across the Niger Delta region have accused the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio of bribing Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo with More...
President Buhari Fingers N’Delta Militants Over Drop In Oil Revenue
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Niger Delta militants who vandalised oil pipelines contributed to a drop in Nigeria’s oil revenue. The President disclosed this in an interview More...
UPU President-General, Moses Taiga Condemns Police Invasion Of Clark’s Residence
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS SEPTEMBTER 7TH(URHOBOTODAY)-The President General of Urhobo Progress Union Worldwide, Olorogun Moses Taiga, has condemned the unwarranted raid on the Abuja home of elder statesman and Chairman More...
N’Delta Militants Urge Buhari To Reinstate Boroh Or Face Fresh Attack
Paul Boroh LAGOS MARCH 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A coalition of nine militant groups in the Niger Delta, under the aegis of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), has given President Muhammadu Buhari a four-week ultimatum More...
N’Delta Avengers Calls Off Ceasefire, To Resume Hostilities Any Day
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Niger Delta Avengers, a group of militants that struck oil installations in Niger Delta region last year, has announced an immediate end to its ceasefire with the Nigerian government. In More...
Okowa’s Aide, Nmalagu Calls on Niger Delta Militants to Reconsider their Actions
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The various militant groups operating in the Niger Delta region in the guise of fighting for the emancipation of the Niger Delta people has More...
Sale of National Assets: Solution Short-Sighted and Unsustainable-Group
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Centre for Global Solutions and Sustainable Development (CENGSSUD), strongly oppose the proposed sales of National asset to fund 2016 budget and sustain the foreign More...
Niger Delta:Soldiers Arrest Militant Leader Who Declares “Operation Crocodile Tears”, Others
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7T (URHOBOTODAY)-Troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army have arrested a suspected militant, one Mr. Gabriel Ogbudje. He is also the alleged leader of the “Otugas Fire Force”, a militant group threatening More...
Nigeria to Train 500 Ex-militants in Farming
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Paul Boro LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government will train 500 ex-militants in agriculture and aquaculture under its amnesty programme, an official More...
War in The Creeks, as Nigeria Military Engages Niger Delta Avengers in Fierce Battle
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An official information reaching Urhobotoday has revealed that there is fierce battle between the combined forces of Nigeria military and Niger Delta militants tagged “Niger Delta 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...
Suspected N’Delta Militants Besiege Lagos Community, Kill Six Policemen
LAGOS JULY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was pandemonium on Tuesday morning at Ewedogbon community in Igando area of Lagos state as suspected Niger Delta militants besieged the area. Multiple sources revealed that More...
Nigeria Army to N’Delta Militants, We’ll Use Force If Dialogue Fails
LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said that the Nigerian Army would not hesitate to use force should the dialogue between the Federal Government and militants fail. Buratai More...
Aug 1st Deadline: Militants Advise Jonathan, Clark, Spiff, S/East, S/South Indigenes to Return Home
LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) and other militant groups have asked indigenes of South-East and South-South all over Nigeria to immediately come back home. Specifically, they called More...
We Are Talking With Niger Delta Militants_Buhari
Buhari LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said that his administration was talking to Niger Delta militants through oil companies and law-enforcement agencies to find a lasting More...
Hausas, Yorubas Dare Avengers, Say They Won’t Leave Niger Delta
LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)– Against the recent threat by Niger Delta militants that Northerners and Westerners should quit the region and return to their various regions, the youth leaders of the Hausa and More...
Militants Vow To Declare N’Delta Republic in Aug 1, Order Northerners, S/Westerners Out Of Region
LAGOS JULY 18TH URHOBOTODAY)-Adaka Boro Avengers (ABA) said on Sunday that it had concluded arrangements with other militant groups to declare the Niger Delta region an independent republic three weeks from today, More...
FG Cries Out Over Scarcity of Fund to Implement 2016 Budget…Blames N’Delta Militants
Buhari LAGOS JULY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal, yesterday, said Federal Government may not fully implement the 2016 national budget. He said the More...
New Militant Group, Ultimate Warrior Emerges, Makes Outrageous Demands
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A new militant group called the Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta (UWND) has emerged. The group has threatened to continue vandalism in the Niger Delta if their demands are not met. More...
Dialogue is the Solution to Niger Delta Militancy, UK Envoy Tells Buhari
UK Envoy Paul Arkwright LAGOS JUNE 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Paul Arkwright, Thursday urged the Federal Government to engage in dialogue with Niger-Delta militants rather than More...
Niger Delta Militants Give Army 48hrs to Leave region or…….
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-On the eve of the flag-off of the clean-up of Ogoni land, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) has given operatives of the Nigerian army to leave the region. According to the group, More...
Rival N’Delta Militants Clash, Set Oil Pipeline Ablaze in Bayelsa
LAGOS MAY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Two rival Niger Delta militant groups are making life uncomfortable for the indigenes of their community following clash between them over control of an oil field operated by Nigerian More...
Nigeria Oil Output Crumbles as N’Delta Onslaught on Pipeline Continues
LAGOS MAY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A series of attacks on Nigeria’s oil infrastructure has pushed its output of crude close to a 22-year low, putting intense pressure on the country’s finances. Attacks late last More...
Attack Threat on Lagos: We are Prepared, OPC Tells N’Delta Avengers
LAGOS MAY 10TH A Yoruba group, the Odua Defenders Union, ODU, Monday, said it was an insult on the Yoruba race for the new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, to have threatened to attack Lagos in a More...
Expect More Attacks, New N’Delta Militant Group Tells FG
LAGOS MAY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of militants in the Niger Delta has declared that there will be more attacks and killings at major oil stations to cripple the economy until the Federal Government addresses More...