Anti-Graft War: Buhari Orders Govt Ministries, Agencies to Use Single Govt. Approved Account
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)- – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered ministries to use only approved government bank accounts to make payments, the vice president’s office More...
Airtel Nigeria Hits 30 million Subscriber Milestones
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Bharti Airtel, the world’s third largest telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Africa and Asia, today announced a significant milestone More...
Energy Experts Meet in Nigeria to Connect Major Investors in Power Sector
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Last week, the EnergyNet Nigeria team met with industry stakeholders to discuss the upcoming Powering Africa: Nigeria meeting which is taking place on 14 and 15 September at the More...
Buhari Announces Plan to Produce Weapons, Decries Dependence on Other Countries
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)- President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday Nigeria planned to ramp up the domestic production of weapons for its armed forces, in an effort to cut the country’s dependence More...
Nigerian Poses As American General, Defrauds British Women £300,000
Alleged fraudster, Agbonifo Ayetan LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Nigerian fraudster who posed as an American general serving in Afghanistan and conned two British women more than £300,000 in just six months. The More...
Bakassi: A Shameless Surrender to the Shenanigans of Imperialism and Western Conspiracy
By Debo Adeniyi LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is no longer news that the federal government foreclosed any attempt to seek the review of the judgement of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) siting at The More...
Poor Network: MTN Looses High End Users to Etisalat in Nigeria
LAGOS JULY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Africa’s top mobile phone operator, MTN Group, gave a downbeat outlook for Nigeria, its biggest market, on Wednesday after losing high-end users to Gulf rival Etisalat. South More...
Reasons Why You Must Avoid Instant Noodles
This food of instant noodle is dangerous to your health LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The famous instant noodles: affordable, convenient, tasty, filling and best served hot and garnished with eggs, shrimps or beef, More...
See What Nigerian Banks Pay Their Workers
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The banking sector in Nigeria is one of highest paying sector as far as salaries are concerned. What banks pay their workers however differs from bank to bank. This is partly due More...
Ebonyi Govt. to Protect Farmers’ Land against Illegal Encroachment
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ebonyi state government says it will survey and register all farmlands in the state to stop the practice of government taking lands of farmers More...
No reason to flee from EFCC, I left N5.3b in Amnesty account – Kuku
Kingsley Kuku LAGOS AUHUST 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Former presidential adviser on the Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku, has disclosed that he did not run away from probe following invitation by the Economic and Financial More...
How Ibori is Governing Delta State from London Prison
Chief James Ibori LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Until he fell out of favour with ‘the powers that be’ after the death of late President Umar Yar’Adua, ex-Governor James Onanefe Ibori held sway not only in More...
Delta State Faces Perpetual Deficits as Debt Rises to N773bn
By Ptrick Atuayan LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s oil rich Delta State is deep in debt, as N773 billion in outstanding liabilities from the previous administration, along with monthly expenditure which More...
US Congress Woman Plans to Lead Five Others to Push for Release of Chibok Girls
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (at podium) chats with congregants of The Word of Life Bible Church on Sunday, July 26, 2015 about the #BringBackOurGirls movement and to update South Florida’s Nigerian community More...
Global Campaign on Military Spending Urges Buhari to Slash Military Budget
Muhammadu Buhari LAGOS JULY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Global Campaign On Military Spending, GCOMS has called for reduction in the military budget stressing huge allocation to the military in time More...
Nigeria on the Road to Polio Eradication
LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Nigeria is one step closer to achieving the goal of eradicating polio in 2017 as it has been one year since the last case of polio was reported in the country. The last case More...
Buhari Returns Home Without U.S. Arms Deal
Buhari back to Nigeria without US arms deal LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned home from a Washington visit with no agreement from the United States to sell weapons. More...
IMF Forecasts Nigeria’s Oil revenue Droping From $88bn to $52bn
IMF chief, Christine Largade LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Article IV Consultation Staff Report of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has indicated that Nigeria’s oil earnings would drop to $52 billion this More...
Obama Expresses Confidence on Buhari, as SERAP Wants US to Help Recover Nigeria’s Stolen Billions
Buhari and Obama LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-U.S. President Barrack Obama says he has confidence that president Buhari will turn Nigeria economy around even as he described Nigeria as one of the most important More...
Etisalat Announces Entries for £15,000 Prize for Literature 2015
LAGOS JULY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Nigeria’s fastest growing and most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat has announced the call for entries for the 2015 Etisalat Prize. The prize is the first ever Pan More...
Advent of Urhobo ‘Igbe’ as First Monotheistic Religion in Nigeria
Igbe worshippers dancing at Ogwa By Mathias Iroro Orhero The advent of judeo-christian monotheistic religious groups in Nigeria such as Christianity and Islam has done great damage to the knowledge of some of our More...
Saharareporters Goofed, Report False Story of Okonjo-Iweala “Handling Dossier of Corrupt Deals” to Buhari
Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The recent report by the integrity-challenged website, Saharareporters and some other media that former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has handed over a “dossier More...
Halliburton: Buhari Reopens $182m Bribery Case, to Prosecute Obasanjo
Obasanjo and Buhari LAGOS JULY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United States government has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to revisit the $182 million Halliburton bribery case and diligently prosecute all those involved More...
U.S. to Trace Nigerian Stolen Assets, Boost Military Assistant
US President Barack Obama LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The United States will offer to help Nigeria’s new leader track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and increase U.S. military assistance More...
Ex-NSA, Sambo Dasuki Raises Alarm, Says SSS Wants to Implicate Him
Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The former National Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, yesterday raised the alarm over what he saw as plot by the State Security Service (SSS) to implicate him More...