Edwin Clark Slams Reuben Abati, Says He Sabotages Jonathan’s Administration
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Edwin Clark, has alleged that Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, sabotaged More...
Nigeria’s Economy Defying Currency Critics Chokes Growth
LAGOS OCOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s economy is growing at the slowest pace this decade as oil prices drop. Companies are complaining they can’t get the dollars they need to do business. And trading in More...
Nigeria Listed Among 20 Countries in The World Where It is Difficult to Do Business
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has long been touted as one of the continent’s most promising business hubs. In the first quarter of 2015, foreign direct investment inflow More...
Pro-Biafra Agitators are Miscreants – Obasanjo
Obasanjo LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described pro-Biafra agitators as miscreants who should be ignored. Speaking in an exclusive interview with our correspondents at More...
Navy Impounds Tompolo’s Ship as Powerful Forces Gang Up against Using it for Training Cadets
Tompolo and the impounded vessel LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Controversy is at the moment brewing over the use of the Royal Norwegian military vessel bought by Global West Specialist Vessel Limited to train More...
Contrary to Military Claim Shettima Says Boko Haram Fully in Control of Two LGA in Borno
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima,has revealed that Boko Haram militants are occupying two local governments in his state, contrary to the impression that the militants are not More...
NCC Fines MTN Nigeria N1.04trn for Non-Deactivation of Unregistered SIM
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has issued a landmark fine of N1.04 trillion ($5.2bn) against MTN Nigeria, the largest mobile network operator in the country for failing More...
Prostitution: Nigeria Struggles against Human Trafficking in Overseas
LAGOS, OCTOBER 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Nigeria (AP) — In a Lagos suburb, 22-year-old Omo huddles over her battered cell phone, scrolling through text messages to find the name of the Russian city where she was coerced More...
FRSC to Work for the Implementation of Axle Load Control in ECOWAS
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi who is also the Chairman of the National Committee on the implementation of the ECOWAS policy on axle load More...
Nigeria to Raise Electricity Rates Up to 40% By Next Month
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria plans to increase electricity rates by as much as 40 percent for some customers next month as a fall in the value of the naira and rising costs hinder efforts to end daily More...
IMF Press Nigeria to Further Devalue Naira Currency
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY) — The IMF is pressing Nigeria to further devalue its naira currency amid uncertainty over the political and economic outlook for Africa’s biggest oil producer and economy. Analysts More...
The Source Magazine’s Unprovoked Attack on PREMIUM TIMES: Our Stand
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Our attention has been drawn to a recent publication by The Source Magazine, with a Cover Story entitled: ” Alamieyeseigha: How False Story Killed Him”. In the said More...
Can Nigeria’s New Government Overcome Its Old Corruption?
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-On September 30th, his self-imposed deadline for finally announcing his Cabinet after four months in office, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari simply said that he would More...
Amnesty Opens New Office in Nigeria to Investigate Abuses
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The global rights organisation, Amnesty International has announced the opening of its Nigerian office on Tuesday as part of its commitment to increase the impact of human rights More...
Buhari Makes ‘U’ Turn, Renounces Appointing Himself as Petroleum Minister
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will leave the post of petroleum minister in Africa’s biggest oil producer vacant after signaling that he would take the position, More...
Okowa’s Cocktail of Appointments and APC Vilification of Its Principal Secretary
Okowa By Fejiro Oliver “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious More...
Shell Starts Third Phase of Operation at Nigerian Offshore
Shell starts third phase of operations at deepwater prospect off the coast of Nigeria. Photo courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Royal Dutch Shell said it started operations at the third More...
Warri Cleric Expresses Dismay over Continuous Consumption of ‘Ogogoro’ in Delta State
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite the known harms of ogogoro and the Federal Government’s ban on its public sales and consumption, the locally made alcoholic drink is still flourishing as a favourite in More...
UK Crime Agency Was on Trail of Deziani Since 2013
Deziani Allison-Madueke LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The UK National Crime Agency [NCA] on Saturday revealed that the former Minister of Petroleum, Deziani Allison-Madueke had been under investigation by the More...
DMO Facilitates Bailout for 23 states, Helps Restructure N575bn Debts
Director General of Debt Management Office (DMO), Dr Abraham Nwankwo LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Debt Management Office (DMO) has helped to facilitate bailout for 23 states of the federation by working out More...
Re: FRSC Declining Morals-Putting The Records Straight
Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Our attention has been drawn to a publication in the National Mirror authored by Dr. Sherrif Folarin on 29 September, 2015 titled “ FRSC DECLINING More...
NACCIMA Decries Buhari Appointing Himself as Petroleum Minister
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-In defilement of widespread belief, the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, NACCIMA, has asserted that it is a bad idea for President More...
Nigeria @ 55: Delta APC, O’tega Emerhor Pass Vote of Confidence on Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari (r) and Delta State APC Governorship candidate, Chief Emerhor O’tega LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State and its 2015 governorship candidate, More...
Diplomatic Blunder: Nigeria Absent As United Nations Ponders Fresh Assistance For Boko Haram Victims
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY) – In what appears as a clear diplomatic blunder by Nigeria, Friday, in New York, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) More...
Ministerial List Ready, to Be Release in Batches, PDP Members Make List
Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The list of nominees into the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari is ready, and this is authoritative. President Buhari, it was learnt, ratified the list for transmission More...