Yuletide: Time for Sober Reflection
By Eneruvie Enakoko LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As we celebrate the yuletide, we should try to keep our perspective on what’s truly important. This is certainly not the time to engage in antisocial behaviour, More...
Ex-Militant, Tompolo Denies Purchase of Warships
Tompolo LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Leader of the now rested Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, otherwise know as Tompolo has warned those who go about More...
Ex-Militant, Tompolo Acquires Warships, Combat Boats from Norway
Tompolo LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In a shocking move, the Norwegian government has sold a fleet of its decommissioned, but still sophisticated, battleships and combat boats to a former Niger Delta militant More...
Delta 2015: Orubebe Declaration Flops as ‘Rented Crowd’ Turned against Him
Elder Orubebe LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Thousands of people hired by former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Peter Godsday Orubebe, last Thursday turned against him when he failed to pay them, several sources More...
Eradiri Remains Our President, Ijaw Youth Council Insists
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY) –The apex Ijaw youth organisation, Ijaw Youth Council, (IYC) Worldwide has set up a disciplinary committee to penalise erring members of the council after report of alleged suspension More...
PDP Chieftain, Onuesoke Faults Jega over Creation of New Polling Units
PDP Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant in 2007 general election, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has faulted the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission More...
Niger Delta Region ‘Epicentre of Electoral Fraud’-Investigators
LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reportedly claimed that the country’s Niger Delta – also referred to as the “South South” region – More...
Niger Delta Fishermen Reject Shell’s N8bn Compensation for Oil Spillage
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Bodo community in Rivers State has rejected an offer of up to $51m from Royal Dutch Shell for two oil spills in 2008 depriving the residents of their livelihood. Their British More...
4,000 NDDC’S Uncompleted Projects Litter Niger Delta Region
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is in a pitiable state it may never recover from, if it continues operating in its current ways. The 14-year-old interventionist agency, More...
CONFAB Declares War on Gas Flaring
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Consideration of the report of the Committee on Energy was completed on Monday with a resolution by the Conference that the powers of the minister to grant exemption to gas flaring More...
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Clark Raises Alarm over N’Delta Environmental Degradation, Says the Region may Cease to Exist
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A National Conference delegate, Edwin Clark, has warned that unless something urgent is done to salvage the Niger Delta environment; the region might soon cease to More...
Derivation: Onuesoke Slams Junaid Mohammed, Says He is Afraid of True Federalism
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS MAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Country Director of Network for Good Governance (N4GG), Chief Sunny Onuesoke has accused Second Republic lawmaker and a delegate at the National Conference, Dr Junaid More...
How Three Dutch Nationals were Kidnapped in Niger-Delta- Comrade Sunny Ofehe
(Centre) Comrade Sunny Ofehe and Mr Femi Soewu surrounded by the Dutch Nationals LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Founder and Executive Director Hope for Niger Delta Campaign (HNDC), The Netherlands, Comrade Sunny Ofehe More...
Orubebe Preaches Closeness to God as Glory Bible School Matriculates 1st Batch
Elder Godsday Orubebe By Mary Oyibocha- Agbajoh Delta State 2015 Governorship aspirant and Founder of Glory Sanctuary Christian Centre, Elder Godsday Orubebe CON has informed members of his congregation on the importance More...
James Ibori: A Cry for Justice
Chief James Ibori By Francis Onoiribholo LAGOS APRIL 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is a commonly held belief that justice delayed is justice denied. Perhaps, the simple fact of the axiom is lost on the British in whose More...
CONFAB Aim at Actualisation of Jonathan’s 2015 Election Plan-N’Delta Youths
Preident Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Niger Delta youth say National Conference shows an agenda for the actualization of the 2015 re-election plan of President Goodluck Jonathan. Some youth from More...
Delta: Stay Clear of Escravos, Neglected Stakeholders Warn Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The recent bloody crisis that engulfed some Delta state riverine communities following the controversial $16 billion Gas City Project, which is located More...
Uduaghan, Ayiri Blame JTF over Increasing Crude Oil Theft
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS APRIL 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State governor Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has blamed the security agencies in the Niger Delta, especially the Joint Task Force’s “Operation Pulo Shield,” More...
NDDC: N’Delta Monarchs Drag FG To Court Over N500bn Rip Off
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The Federal Government has been dragged to court over alleged N500billion rip off. Traditional rulers from the oil producing states of the Niger Delta who dragged the Federal More...
Rivers APC wants Presidency Zoned to N’Delta
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has demanded that the position of the president, the vice president or the national chairman of the party should be zoned to the Niger More...
Rivers’ APC, Sylva Slam Jonathan for Neglecting N’Delta Region
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lack More...
East-West Road to Swallow Extra N30bn
East-West Road LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government needs N30 billion to complete the East West road project. The Supervising Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Darius Ishaku, said this when he More...
Clark’s Son: Ijaw Leaders Join Forces against Kidnappers, Trace Perpetrators to Clark’s Kinsmen
Chief Ebikeme Clark LAGOS APRIL 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-SUSPECTED kidnappers of Mr. Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, kidnapped Wednesday, at Kiagbodo, Delta State, has reportedly contacted the More...
Rep Accuses Orubebe of Embezzling N110m Constituency Fund
Elder Godsday Orubebe LAGOS MARCH 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Deputy Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Albert Akintoye, Friday, alleged that the former minister of Niger Delta Ministry, More...
Goodluck Jonthan Apprehensives Over Kidnapped Uncle
Chief Inegite Nitabel LAGOS MARCH 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Associates of President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that the Presidency is apprehensive over the fate of 70-year-old foster father of President Goodluck Jonathan, More...