Nigeria Begins Crackdown on Online Publishers, Bloggers
Chris Nwandu, Publisher of CKN presently in detention LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A crackdown on bloggers and online publishers has started in Nigeria, with a second major industry player arrested and incarcerated More...
How Assets Declaration Confirms Buhari’s Austere Lifestyle
Buhari in his farm LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Documents submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) show that at the time he was sworn in on May 29, President Buhari had less More...
Critics Condemn Buhari’s New Appointments, Describe it as Lopsided
The new appointees LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointment, yesterday, of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, his Chief of Staff and four others was greeted by More...
Why Buhari Dumps $182m Halliburton Bribe Scandal Report?…Conspiracy of Retired Army Generals
(l-r) Ibrahim Babangida,Olusegun Obsanjo and Muhammadu Buhari By George Elijah Otumu LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari surely meant well for the Nigerian people. His integrity, More...
France Offers to Host International Meeting on Tackling Boko Haram
People displaced from their homes following attacks by Boko Haram militants wait at a camp for internally displace LAGOS AUGUST 26TH – French President Francois Hollande offered Tuesday to organise an international More...
UN Promises to Support Buhari’s Fight against Insecurity, Unemployment, Corruption
President Muhammadu Buhari and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with President Muhammadu Buhari Monday and promised solidarity in the new Nigerian More...
Lagos Lawyer Drags Buhari to Court over Sack of AMCON Board
BuhariBuhari LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Lagos lawyer and activist Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Esq., has sued President Muhammadu Buhari before the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking the nullification of the recently More...
Jonathan Doesn’t Drink Alcohol-Abati, Disagree on Probe
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan is not a drunkard, neither does he drink alcohol except wine, during special occasions, his former Special Adviser on Media and More...
Security: US,UK,Canada Warn Citizens to Stay Clear of Twenty Two States in Nigeria
David Cameon LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-In spite of the weakening of Boko Haram’s capacity to carry out large-scale attacks against civilians and soldiers by Nigerian troops in the North-East, the United More...
UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon to Visit Nigeria on Sunday
UN Secreatry-General,Ban Ki-Moon expected in Nigeria on Sunday LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria will play host to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who will be in the country from tomorrow, More...
Presidency Abolishes Office of First Lady
Aisha Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The presidency has said that official portfolio was yet to be assigned to Aisha, the wife of president Mohmmadu Buhari, overruling what hitherto was known as “First More...
Again, Naira Appreciates in the Parallel Market at N208 – $1
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST *URHOBOTODAY)– Nigeria’s naira has sustained the gains recorded this week, edging higher on Friday against the U.S dollar at the parallel market — N208 / $1 — having traded at N223 on More...
Fowler and Expected Change in Tax Sector
Dr Babatunde Fowler, Director-General Federal Inland Revenue By Daramola Babalola LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian tax system has faced several challenges in recent times. Under current Nigerian law, More...
The Need to Protect Electricity Consumer from Extortion
By Nwaorgu Faustinus LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The news about the directive or rather order by the senate on the 11th of this month to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend the More...
Custom Boss, Dikko Bows Out with a State of the Art Hospital Legacy (PHOTOS)
From Left, Comptroller-General of Customs, Dikko Inde Abudullahi, Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Senator Sabo Nagudu from Kaduna State, during the commissioning of Customs Hospital Karu Abuja on More...
1.7m Nigerian Children are Malnourished with a Thousand Dying Everyday
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Report made available to Urbotoday an online medium has revealed that there are approximately 1.7 million under five years children who are severely acutely malnourished in Nigeria, More...
I’m ‘Still in Charge’- Shekau, Boko Haram Leader
Shekau LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram denied he had been killed or ousted as chief of the jihadist group in an audio recording released Sunday attributed to him More...
APC Calls for Backing in Anti-Graft Fight
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)- – Nigeria’s ruling party on Sunday called on the country’s people to support efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to recover billions of dollars lost to government More...
They’re Back with Full Force: Boko Haram’s Return Under Buhari
Buhari By Fisayo Soyombo LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In less than three months of Buhari’s reign, the gory era of terrorism is back in Nigeria. This is not the Nigeria that Muhammadu Buhari promised More...
Buhari to Lay Foundation of Biggest Africa Private Refinery in Badagry
L-R Mrs.Lawrence Famakinde, CEO/Chairman Sir Lawrence Famakinde Adeyoyin and HRM Oba Oyekan Adekanmi Ajose Possi 111 Alapa of Apa By Godwin Odidi If report reaching Urhobotoday, an online medium is anything to More...
Ford Motor to Start Assembly in Nigeria
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Ford Motor Company will start assembling its best-selling Ford Ranger pickup truck in Nigeria by the fourth quarter, as it expands in Africa and the Middle East, the U.S. More...
Esan Journalists Forum Appeals for Peace, Unity among Indigenes of Edo Central
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Esan Journalists Forum, EJF, an umbrella body for media practitioners from Esan speaking area of Edo State, has appealed to leaders and well meaning citizens of the various towns More...
Ex-President Jonathan’s Aide Returns N1.5bn Loot to FG
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A close security aide of former President Goodluck Jonathan who was recently interrogated by security agents, had refunded to the Federal Government the sum of N1.5 billion he allegedly More...
Three Important Achievements of Buhari in Just 60 Days in Office
President Muhammadu Buhari, ‘Baba Go Slow’ is on track By Oladele Hakeem LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Actions speak louder than words. The actions of President Muhammadu Buhari right from his inauguration More...
Could Eko Atlantic City Be West African Dubai?
A designer view of Eko Atlantic, Central Marina By Gbenga Oduntan LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The government of the state of Lagos — Nigeria’s former capital has proudly proclaimed it is building More...