PENGASSAN, NUPENG Shut Oil Production Facilities Nationwide Over Oil Blocks Sale
LAGOS MAY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Employees of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have been directed to shutdown indefinitely their More...
Keyamo Sues First Bank for N100b over Termination of Staff Employment
LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Staff of First Bank of Nigeria Limited has filed a N100 billion naira suit against the bank following his indefinite suspension and termination from duty without adherence to More...
Muslims Frown against Buhari Shaking Hands with Women, Says It’s Unislamic
Muslims frown at Buhari shaking hands with the new wife of Edo Governor Oshiomhole, Miss Lara Fortes, a young model from Cape Verde LAGOS MAY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Muslim, Abdul Rasak Umoru has revealed that some More...
Transparency Int’l Rates Jonathan’s Govt above Buhari, Obasanjo’s Govt
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS MAY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Contrary to general believes the Transparency International has rated the out going government of Presidet Goodluck Jonathan as the best compare the past More...
Group Cautions APC, Buhari over ‘Witch Hunting’ Utterances on PDP, Jonathan
Buhari LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)- A body called, the National Peace Building and Conflict Reconciliation Organisation (NPBCTO), has called on the President–Elect, General Mohammadu Buhari to exercise restraint More...
Senate Approves Six Months Jail for Smokers in Public Places
LAGOS MAY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Senate on Tuesday passed Tobacco bill even as the lawmakers approved six months jail for anybody guilt of smoking in public places. However, the committee revealed in their findings More...
FG Grants Provisional License to Edwin Clark University
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS MAY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The federal government Thursday granted provisional license to newly approved private university of Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, Delta State. Edwin Clark University More...
Why We Founded Oodua Progressives Union – Gani Adams
Gani Adams LAGOS MAY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Leader of the Oodua People’s Congress, Otunba Gani Adams, has said the decision to establish the Oodua Progressives Union was based on the need to sustain More...
Leave Urhobo Alone, PDP Chieftain Tells Ogboru, Blames PDP for Loosing Presidency
Ogboru LAGOS MAY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, Chief Olori Magege, has derided Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru, governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the just More...
Obama to Send High-Powered Delegation to Buhari’s Inauguration
Obama LAGOS MAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-International interest in Nigeria’s political transition and the planned transfer of power from the Jonathan-Sambo presidency to the Buhari-Osinbajo presidency billed for May More...
World’s Oldest Man Dies at 151 Years in Anambra State, Nigeria
Late Chief Enemue, world oldest man LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief Enemuo is a World War (1&2) veteran, born in the family of three as a first child, yet he had outlived his younger brothers, age mates, More...
Nigeria Borrows Money to Pay Government Salaries-Okonjo-Iweala
Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Africa’s richest economy is borrowing money to pay salaries as it struggles through a “difficult cash crunch” brought on by halved oil prices, Nigeria’s More...
Kashamu Drags NDLEA, EFCC, Others to Court over Extradition
Kashamu LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In anticipation of a possible extradition to the United States for drug-related offences, controversial senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial District and chieftain of the Peoples More...
Delta: Urhobo Gbagbako Militants Blow Up Gas Pipelines Again
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)—For the second time, a Urhobo militant group under the aegis of Urhobo Gbagbako, yesterday blew up gas pipelines belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, More...
UNICEF Launches U-Report in Nigeria, Targets One Million U-Reporters in 2015
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (URHOBOTODAY) – UNICEF and partners today launched the U-Report, an innovative SMS-based platform that empowers Nigerians by enabling them to participate and engage in policy-making and governance More...
For Nigeria’s Democracy To Be Strengthened, The Judiciary Must Be Independent, Says Uduaghan
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in a group photograph with the Chief Judge of Delta State, Justice Abiodun Smith and other Judges, during a courtesy call on the Governor by the Chief Judge, in Asaba, Tuesday LAGOS APRIL More...
Marginalising the People of S’East, S’South Can Lead to Crisis – Uduaghan Warns APC
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS APRIL 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, against marginalising the people of the South-South and the South-East More...
APC Reverses Buhari’s Ban on AIT
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reversed the controversial decision taken by President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to bar the Africa Independent Television, AIT, from covering More...
Bola Tinubu Linked to Drug-trafficking Cartel, Forfeits $.5m to US Govt
APC Chieftain, Bola Tinubu LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s election last month was celebrated as an unlikely victory for democracy in an African country with a tenuous record of free and fair representation. More...
Why I Conceded Defeat to Buhari- Jonathan
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan spoke for the first time, yesterday, on why he conceded defeat to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major-General More...
Buhari Blasts Iweala for Financial Rot, Says Ministers, Perm Sec Will Declare Assets
President-Elect, Mohammadu Buhari LAGOS APRIL 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President-Elect Buhari spoke exclusively with SaharaTV on how he plans to deal with corruption, the government’s finances, Boko Haram, and Nigeria’s More...
Online Publishers Congratulate Buhari, Salutes Jonathan, Jega, Nigerians on Successful Polls
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers has described as successful the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria. GOCOP, in a statement by its President, More...
Urhobo Youths Hail Buhari’s Victory, Recommend Jonathan for ‘Nobel Laureate’ Award
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The apex Urhobo Youth Body Worldwide, The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Youth Wing has congratulated the President elect Gen. Muhammad Buhari (rtd) over his outstanding victory in the More...
PDP’ll Live to Fight Another Day- Fani Kayode
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director Media and Publicity Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation has disclosed that despite Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) losing the Presidential More...
Celebration in Northern Nigeria as Buhari Wins Presidency
Gen Mohammadu Buhari, President-elect LAGOS APRIL 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)- The Morthern part of Nigeria erupted in jubilation and celebration as Chairman of Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Atahiru Jega More...