WorldStage National Electricity Conference to Tackle Post-Privatization Challenges
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)- With about 30 million households in Nigeria still without access to electricity at the dawn of a new era in Nigeria’s liberalized electricity power sector, the 4th WorldStage More...
B’Haram: 480 Nigerian Soldiers Flee to Cameroon, It’s tactical Says DHQ
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 480 Nigerian soldiers have fled into Cameroon following fierce fighting with Boko Haram insurgents. The Cameroonian Army Spokesman, Lt Col Didier Badjek, who confirmed More...
2015 General Election and Polarization of Boko Haram Insurgency
By Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe. Many thanks to the “Red Berets Movement” in Nigeria for championing the “Bring Back Our Girls” global awareness which has attracted the attention and subsequent positive response More...
Keshi Dumps Eagles
Keshi LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-AFCON Champion and Brazil 2014 World Cup Super Eagles’ Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, may have dumped Nigeria as he was said to have bid the Nigerian team a final farewell. Sources More...
Reasons Why Nobody Can Stop Jonathan From Contesting in 2015-E.K. Clark
Ijaw Leader, Chief Edwin Clark (l) and President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian Former Minister of Information, Edwin Clark, announced today in Abuja that President Jonathan can–and More...
FG Slashes Business Registration Cost For SMEs by 60 Percent
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government on Tuesday said it had reduced the costs of registering Small and Medium Scale Enterprises with the Corporate Affairs Commission More...
Jonathan Presents N.5b to Delta Govt, as Uduaghan Wins MSME Award
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has presented N500m cheque to Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan Delta State share of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). Uduaghan also More...
Muslims and the Sting of Boko Haram
Boko Haram Leader, Shekau By John Dania LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (URHOBOTODAY0-So much ado about the violent sect in Nigeria, Boko haram, I would rather say is overrated. No doubt, they have caused havoc in Nigeria and More...
Ebola: Handshake, Symbol of Peace, Now Means of Death
John Dania LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ebola first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, in Nzara, Sudan, and in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter was in a village situated near the More...
100 Killed, Emir, Army Commander Missing as Boko Haram Captures Gwoza
LAGOS 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)- The newly installed Emir of Gwoza, Mohammed Timta is reportedly missing as Boko Haram invaded Gwoza town in Borno State killing hundred of civilians and soldiers. An ambulance belonging More...
Kenny Okolugbo: Bringing Governance to the People
DESOPADEC Commissioner in Ndokwa nation, Hon Ken Okolugbo By Agbanashi Obinne LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Azuka Ogujiuba and Adedayo Showemimo enter the colourful world of Kenny Kenechukwu Okolugbo, the Delta More...
Clarion Call on Jonathan, Uduaghan to Inject $500m on Reconstruction of Kokori
(Left) President Goodluck Jonathan and Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan By: Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe. LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State oil producing and political town of Kokori is an integral part of the various More...
Commonwealth Games: Okagbare Wins Women’s 100m
Blessing Okagbare LAGOS JULY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare won women’s 100m gold at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. Okagbare, who won long jump silver and 200m bronze at the 2013 world championships, More...
How Legal Staff Plots with EFCC to Fleece DESOPADEC Million of Naira
LAGOS JULY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It is amazing that while people of Delta State are yet to benefit from the objectives of which Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC) is set up, a syndicate More...
2015: David Edevbie and the New Face of Delta
David Edevbie By Ifeanyi Okolocha LAGOS JULY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY) The politics of Delta State has always been complex and very intriguing compared to that of other states in Nigeria. Even though the next elections More...
Omo-Agege and the Credo of New Politics
Obaisi Ovie Omo-Agege (Right) receiving blessing from Asagba of Asaba Obi (Prof.) Joseph Chike Edozien, CFR, JP By Igho Eshalomi LAGOS JULY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Politics or governance is an endeavour which undergoes More...
NOLAFEST 2014: Nigerian Oral Literature Association Calls for Papers
LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian Oral Literature Association has called on participants to submit papers towards marking the Arts and Literatures of Nigerian Festivals taking place at the Royal Palm Hotel, More...
Minister Enjoins Urhobos Resident in Ghana to Maintain Peace, Unity
Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Executive in Ghana in group picture with Ghanian Monarch and Minister LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Greater Accra Minister Hon. Nii Laryea Agbo Joseph has appealed to Urhobos resident More...
Niger Delta Region ‘Epicentre of Electoral Fraud’-Investigators
LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has reportedly claimed that the country’s Niger Delta – also referred to as the “South South” region – More...
Yar’Adua’s ADC, Onoyiveta Faces Retirement over Alleged Multi-Billion Naira Fraud
LAGOS JULY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Aide de Camp (ADC) to late President Umaru Yar’Adua Brigadier-General Mustapha Onoyiveta was Monday relieved of his appointment as Chief of Staff to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. More...
I Enjoy a Robust Relationship with Uduaghan-Omo-Agege
(L-R) Obarisi (Barr) Ovie Omo-Agege, Chief Idodo Umeh and Chief Ukpebitere at Olomoro LAGOS JULY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Contrary to insinuations in some quarters that he is at loggerheads with Delta State Governor, More...
Urhobo Youths Commend Jonathan, Senate for Ministerial Slot, CONFAB over State Creation
\ LAGOS JULY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Urhobo Youth Leaders Association (UYLA) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for nominating an Urhobo indigene, Dr. Steve Orise Oru for ministerial post More...
100 Escaped Death As Police Building Collapses In Lagos
Police collapsed building LAGOS JULY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 100 people escaped death on Monday night at a police barrack in Lagos, Nigeria when a dilapidated two-storey building suffers partial collapse. The More...
Keshi Threatens to Decamp Protesting Eagles
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Stephen Keshi, was so incensed by the players’ attitude that he threatened to decamp anybody who failed to be in the team’s bus by 1.00 p.m. for the journey to Brasilia. The Eagles More...
Cecillia Ibru Drags FG to Court over Seizure of Oceanic Bank
Mrs Cecilia Ibru LAGOS JUNE 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Justice Ahmed Ramat Mohammed of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday adjourned till 10 July to hear the suit instituted by former managing director of defunct More...