Ekiti: Ogboru Commends Jonathan, INEC, Congratulates Fayose
Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) Governorship candidate in 2011 general, Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru has commended the courage of President Goodluck More...
Super Eagles Victory, Ekiti Election, Signs of Better Nigeria- Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday in Abuja said the victory of Nigeria’s Super Eagles and the Saturday peaceful election in Ekiti were signs of unfolding More...
Foreign Coaches Scramble for Eagle’s Job as Keshi Signs 2 years Deal with South-Africa
Keshi LAGOS JUNE 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Super Eagles Manager, Stephen Keshi, has landed a mouthwatering two-year deal with the South African Soccer Federation to take over the coaching job of the country’s senior More...
Nigerian Military Arrest Senior Boko Haram Member in Abia State
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian security forces discovered a senior member of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram among a convoy of nearly 500 travellers arrested this week in More...
National Dialogue: A Panacea for Growth and Development
By Prof. Godini G. Darah Introduction: The National Conference convened in Abuja on March 17, 2014, is the 17th of such exercises in Nigeria since 1914 when Nigeria was amalgamated into a single country by the More...
Keshi Blames Osaze For Failure in Iran Match, Promises Better Performance in Next Two Matches
Osaze Odewingie (Left) and Stephen Keshi LAGOS JUNE 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)- The Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has explained why his team did not prevail over Iran in Nigeria’s first FIFA World Cup match held Monday. Speaking More...
Yobe: Blast Rips through Football Viewing Centre in Damaturu
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. The blast at the Crossfire More...
250 Political Leaders, Democracy Activists to Storm MKO Abiola’s House on June 12
MKO Abiola LAGOS JUNE 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 250 prominent political leaders in the country, long-time associates of late MKO Abiola, the winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections and Democracy More...
Jubilation as DESOPADEC Commissioner, Ominimini Empowers 33 Women with N1.6m
(Centre from left) Rt (Hon) Christopher Ominimini Obiuwevbi (on suit) and Hon Ken Okolugbo (on white) in a group picture with the women There was jubilation, singing and dancing as women from Urhobo communities More...
Nigerian Military Denies “Court-Martialing” 10 Generals over Boko Haram Links
LAGOS MAY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military denied, Tuesday, a news report that 10 generals were being court-martialled for supplying arms and leaking operational secrets to the extremist sect, Boko Haram. The More...
Jonathan Raises Alarm over Activities of Int’l Terrorism, Says its Threatening Gains of Democracy
President Goodluck Jonathan By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS MAY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has raised the alarm over terrorists activities in Nigeria, saying the gains of the past 15 years of interupted More...
Failed 15 Years of Uninterrupted Democracy in Nigeria
By Rufus Ibebe Akpobome Democracy is the government of the people, for the people, and by the people. This was the simply way in which I was taught what democracy was by my government teacher some years ago at More...
You are the Originator of Religious Crisis in Nigeria, CONFAB Delegate Tells IBB
Ibrahim Babangida LAGOS, MAY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-DR Maryam Abdullahi, a delegate representing Civil Society Organisation, CSO, at the on-going National Conference, Tuesday, accused former military President, Ibrahim More...
Churches, Mosques to Pay Tax in Nigeria
LAGOS MAY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-DELEGATES at the on- going National Conference Tuesday voted that henceforth, Churches and Mosques will be paying tax to the federal government, just as they also agreed that Federal More...
Should There be Celebration on Children’s Day?
These children may not celebrate the unsual children's day By Rufus Ibebe Akpobome Children day celebration was first proclaimed by the world conference for the well being of children in 1925. It was established More...
80 US Air Force Personnel Storm Chad for Rescue of Chibok School Girls
US Air Force personnel arriving in Chad LAGOS MAY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) — Eighty U.S. Air Force personnel have begun their mission in Chad to help locate nearly 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in neighboring Nigeria, a More...
Goodluck Jonathan Presidency and the Place of the Urhobo Nation (PHOTOS INCLUSIVE)
Obasiri Ovie Omo-Agege (Centre) arriving at the venue of Isaac Boro public lecture and award eevent at Ughelli Town Hall By Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege On Sunday May 18th, 2014, former Secretary to Delta State Government More...
Chibok Girls: British Spy Plane Breaks Down in Senegal
British spy plane, The Senitel grounded in Senegal on his way to Nigeria LAGOS MAY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Britain’s Ministry of Defence on Monday said that a spy plane sent to help in the search for the Chibok schoolgirls More...
Leaders Meet in Paris, Declare ‘Total War’ on Boko Haram
President Goodluck Jonthan (Right) with world leaders during a conference in Paris on Boko Haram menance LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY) – West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage “total More...
Youth Corpers Barred from Trouble Adamawa,Borno, Yobo States
LAGOS MAY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE Director- General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Johnson Olawumi, disclosed, yesterday, that the agency had put a stop to sending graduates to Adamawa, More...
Ovie Omo-Agege: The Man Who Can Deliver Delta State to PDP in 2015
Obarisis (Barr) Ovie Omo-Agege By Ovasa Ogaga LAGOS MAY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-If the former Secretary to the State Government,Obarisi (Barr.)OvieOmo-Agege decides to seek the governorship of Delta State in 2015, there More...
FBI Set to Join Hunt for Chibok Schoolgirls
Chibok girls LAGOS MAY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Agents from the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), possibly from the New York field office, will reportedly join a US team heading to Nigeria to More...
Boko Haram Dismantles Bridge Linking Nigeria and Cameroun
LAGOS MAY 9TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The Boko Haram Thursday bombed the sole bridge linking Borno State, Nigeria and Cameroun. The strategic bridge is located at the border town of Gamboru, where the Boko Haram killed More...
Jonathan Regime is Corrupt with Little Credibility-New York Times
President Goodluck Jonthan LAGOS MAY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Three weeks after their horrifying abduction in Nigeria, 276 of the more than 300 girls who were taken from a school by armed militants are still missing, possibly More...
Boko Haram Attack Cameroon Police Post, Kill Two
Leader of Boko Haram, Shekau LAGOS MAY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A police officer and a detainee were shot dead overnight in an attack in northern Cameroon blamed on Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, a security More...