E.K. Clark Urges Buhari to Deal Severely With Those Who Wrecked Nigeria Economy
Edwin Clark LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw ethnicist, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday raised alarm over the level of corruption in the country and the economic crunch 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...
Lufthansa Sacks 13 N’Delta Amnesty Trainee Pilots over Non-Payment of Fees
LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The delay by President Muhamadu Buhari to appoint a new head to drive the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, has begun to take a toll on the beneficiaries of the scheme. In far More...
Ogogoro Ban: An Indirect Way to Sabotage N’Delta Economy
Ogogoro brewers in Niger Delta region By Mozimo Beke LAGOS JULY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-While the person or group of persons that are unqualified brewers of the ogogoro locally made gin that could have ventured into the More...
Buhari’s Priority is Genocide-for-Oil, not Boko Haram
Buhari By Prof Chinweizu LAGOS JUNE 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Buhari’s priority is Genocide-for-oil, not Boko Haram, or corruption or the fuel, power shortages etc. that he claimed. In his Inaugural speech on May 29, More...
Urhobo Youths Unveil Plans to Empower 5,000 Youths Annually
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The UPYA Leadership and Skill acquisition Institute, a leading youth empowerment and human capital development nongovernmental organization in the Niger Delta region, has unveiled More...
Nigerian Air Force Declares War against Oil Thieves Kills 350 in Akwa Ibom Creeks
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-It has been confirmed that Nigeria Air Force, under the directives of the Buhari-led administration, raided Ikot Obiokut, a border community in Cross River state for reasons not yet More...
Shell Sells Warri Airport to Indigenous Oil Firm
Warri Airport, Osubi LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has sold the multibillion naira Warri airport to an indigenous energy and infrastructure company, Shoreline Energy More...
Nigerians’ll Soon Experience the Benefits of My Reforms in the Oil Industry-Allison-Madueke
Mrs Deziani Allison-Madueke If you will recall, Urhobotoday has publish part one and two of series of interview conducted on the former Minister of Ministry of Petroleum, Mrs. Deziane Allison-Madueke. In the last More...
Buhari in Secret Meeting with Northern Leaders, Urged to Pay Off Buhari, Tinubu and other Demands
Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS JUNE 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The details of a secret meeting between newly sworn-in President Muhammadu Buhari and some northern leaders have been revealed. The meeting took place at the presidential More...
Niger Delta Indigenes Petition UNO, Demands Niger Delta Republic
Core Niger Delta States LAGOS MAY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group, Movement for the Survival of Niger Delta Indigenes (MOSUNDI) has commenced agitation for self-determination and independence from the present Nigeria. The More...
Alamieyeseigha, Alaibe Eye Bayelsa APC Governorship Ticket
Alamaseigha LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-EX-Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is seeking a return to the Government House on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it was learnt yesterday. The More...
Itsekiri Youth Leader, Ayiri Calls for Probe, Scraping of Amnesty Programme
Ayiri LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Controversial Itsekiri youth leader, Chief Ayiri Emami, has called on President-Elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, to probe and scrap the multi-billion dollar Amnesty Programme designed More...
Jonathan Questions Buhari’s Victory for the First Time, Warns against Scrapping Amnesty Programme
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has, for the first time, questioned the results of the March 28 presidential election, maintaining that the Peoples Democratic More...
Asari, Tompolo, Gani Adams Grab N5.6b New Oil Contract
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the renewal and extension of the pipeline protection contract it awarded to some ex-militants in 2011, which expired More...
Crude Oil Theft: Edwin Clark Blames Military, Foreigners….Exonerates N’Delta Youths
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has exonerated the people of the Niger Delta from the massive oil theft taking place in the region, saying attention should be shifted More...
MEND Leader, Okah Attacks Jonathan, Edwin Clark, Asari Dokubo from Prison
Okah LAGOS MARCH 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian-militant-leader-Henry-Okah Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, is hitting hard at President Goodluck Jonathan from his prison More...
Ex-Militant Leaders Make ‘U’ Turn on War Treats, Beg Nigerians To Vote For Jonathan
Tompolo and Asari Dokubo LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In a remarkable twist, ex-militant leaders who had threatened to plunge a war in the country if President Goodluck Jonathan is not re-elected come May 29, More...
Ex-Militant Raises Alarm over Threat to Life by James Manager
Senatot James Manager LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ex-militant leader, General Aboy, has alleged that Senator James Manager of Delta South Senatorial District is threatening his life with militants and thugs 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...
30 Urhobo Groups Endorse Jonathan, Okowa, Other PDP Candidates
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As the general election come closer, no fewer than thirty Urhobo pressure groups have endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for second term, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa as Delta State More...
N’Delta Ex-Militants Re-Group, Threaten War If Jonathan Looses
Niger Delta Ex-Militants LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of ex-militants in the Niger Delta, led by Government Ekpemopulo (aka Tompolo), on Friday met in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, and threatened More...
Dokubo Dares North, says N’Delta Militants’ll Match Them Violence for Violence
Asari Dokubo LAGOS JANUARY 21TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former militant leader,Asari Dokubo says he and other Niger Delta militants will match the North violence for violence before,during and after the 2015 general election. Asari More...
Tragedies of Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration
President Goodluck Jonathan By Festus Keyamo This is a season of hire-wired deceits, misinformation, campaign of calumny and spewing of outright falsehood and lies – all to hoodwink and deceive ordinary and gullible More...
2015; MEND Backs Buhari, Says Jonathan Do Not Deserve Second Term
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), on Tuesday gained an unusual support as the main agitating militant group in the More...