Delta State Tops List Of Borrowers With N117bn During 2023 Electioneering Period-DMO Report
LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some States in Nigeria borrowed about N200 billion as domestic debts at the first quarter of the year. DAILY POST reports that January to March 2023 More...
Onuesoke Knocks FG Over Plan To Import Petroleum Product from Niger Republic
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has described as embarrassing Federal Government’s plan to import petroleum products from Niger Republic. Onuesoke, More...
North -East Insecurity: 20,000 Nigerian Take Refuge In Niger
LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTOAY)-Violence in northwest Nigeria has forced no fewer than 20,000 refugees to flee to neighboring Niger since April, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. It voiced concern More...
Delta, Rivers, Edo, 9 Other States To Experience Flooding – NEMA, NHISA Warn
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the National Hydrological Services Agencies (NHISA) have warned that 12 states across the country would soon experience flooding More...
Niger to Transfer 500 Boko Haram Prisoners to Nigeria
Boko Haram Prisoners LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Niger has agreed to transfer hundreds of prisoners from the militant Islamist group Boko Haram back to their home country of Nigeria to reduce pressure on its More...
Boko Haram: Buhari Hails US for Sending 300 Troops to Cameroon
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)– Nigeria on Thursday welcomed a US decision to send up to 300 military personnel to Cameroon to help the regional fight against Boko Haram, despite having itself requested More...
ISIS-Affiliated Boko Haram Claims Responsibility for Abuja Multiple Blast
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, have claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings near the Nigerian capital that killed More...
Boko Haram Made 1.4m Nigerian Children Homeless-UNICEF
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said More...
Reasons Behind Buhari’s Visit to Cameroon
Buhari LAGOS JULY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY) — Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari is set to make his first official visit to one-time enemy Cameroon Wednesday to ease tensions and bolster support for a multinational More...
Borno, Yobe Governors Raise Alarm, Says Boko Haram is in Possession of Five Local Govt Areas
LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram Islamists are still holding on to some territories in Nigeria’s troubled northeast, state governors from the region said on Thursday, after the military claimed More...
Boko Haram’ll Be Defeated within 18 Months or Less- Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari (l) and US Secretary of States John Kerry during press briefing LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said Tuesday a multinational African force will be More...
Boko Haram Fighters, Soldier Killed in Failed Prison Attack in Niger
LAGOS JULY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected Boko Haram militants launched an attack on the prison in the southern Niger town of Diffa late on Saturday, military sources said, in an apparent bid to free fellow members More...
Boko Haram Massacre 150 Muslim Worshippers in North Eastern Villages
LAGOS JULY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) – Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed nearly 150 people in northeastern Nigerian villages, mowing down men and children while they prayed in mosques and shooting women More...
Obama to Host Buhari in White House Next Month
Buhari LAGOS JUNE 26TH (URHOBOTODAY) -LAGOS JUNE 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)- US President Barack Obama will welcome his Nigerian counterpart to Washington next month, the White House announced Thursday, a symbolic show More...
Coalition of Political Parties, Civil Societies Slam Buhari over Reliance on Foreign Nations
Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS JUE 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari who travelled to neigbhbouring Chad and Niger in his first week in office has come under fire by the Credible Alternative Alliance, CAA, under More...
Migrant Tragedy: Sordid Tale of Failed Trip to Europe
Saliou Ndiaye LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Saliou Ndiaye set off from Senegal last July with the intention of making the dangerous crossing over the Mediterranean to Europe. But after surviving a grueling desert More...
Buhari Makes ‘U Turn’ on Crushing of Boko Haram, Says Nigerians Should not Expect Miracle from Him
Mohammadu Buhari LAGOS APRIL 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President elect, Muhmmadu Buhari, has asked Nigerians not to expect him to perform miracles once he assumes power come May 29th. Gen Buhari said this while speaking More...
Retreating Boko Haram Fighters Set Homes Ablaze in Bama Town
LAGOS MARCH 15TH _URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram Islamists have set fire to homes in Nigeria’s northeast town of Bama that are under their control, forcing residents to flee as troops advance to recapture More...
Nigeria Retakes 36 Towns From Boko Haram
Nigeria Army pose with Boko Haram flag after dismantling their base LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Nigeria said on Wednesday that 36 towns had been retaken from Boko Haram since the start of a four-nation 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...
U.S. Military Trains African Armies Ahead of Boko Haram Campaign
Members of Chadian special forces form a line during Flintlock 2015, an American-led military exerci … LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)- – Under the glare of the Saharan sun, a U.S. special forces trainer More...
Tide Has Turned against Boko Haram-Jonathan
President Goodluck Jjonthan LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)- – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said the military was gaining the upper hand against Boko Haram, despite two bombings More...
Is Boko Haram Invoking Kanem Bornu Legacy?
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Lagos (AFP) – Long before Boko Haram’s uprising plunged the region into crisis, the area below Lake Chad was part of a powerful Islamic empire, known for religious More...
How Two Of My Children Flee From Nigeria To Avoid Wrath Of Ancestral Worshipers-Widow
Utomudo Victor Edoja LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A widow, Linda Utomudo has narrated how her two children, Utomudo Victor Edoja and Utomudo Ogaga hunted by the Chief Priest of their community ran away More...
‘109 Boko Haram Fighters Dead’ After First Attack on Niger
Carou LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)Boko Haram launched its first major attack in Niger on Friday, triggering a forceful response from regional troops who claimed to have killed more than a hundred of the Islamists. The More...