Revealed: CBN Lagos Inferno Started from Location of Sanusi’s Office
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The strange fire that struck the Marina, Lagos office of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday evening (local time), started from the top floor where the Lagos office of More...
Sanusi Dismisses Findings of Financial Report Council of Nigeria, Says Its Out of Order
Lamio Sanusi LAGOS FEBRUARY (URHOBOTODAY) The suspended Governor of Central Bank, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, has said his suspension by President Goodluck Jonathan cannot be justified on any grounds, including the findings More...
Sanusi Saga: New York Times Editorial Lampoons Jonathan
Lamido Sanusi LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria removed the governor of the country’s central bank from his post on Thursday, after the bank governor repeatedly charged that More...
BREAKING NEWS: Jonathan Fires Chief off Staff Mike Oghiadome
Mike Ogiagomhe LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has asked his Chief of Staff, Mike Oghiadomhe to resign with immediate effect according to a presidency source. Mr. Jonathan reportedly More...
Account for the ‘Missing $10bn’ Oil Money, Angry Ezekwesili Challenges Okonjo-Iweala
Obiageli Ezekwesili LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Minister Ezekwesili believes that when it comes to Nigeria’s economy and revenues, the buck stops at Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s table. She therefore wants More...
Uduaghan Debunks Report of Heavy Shooting, Killing in Warri Communities
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)– The Delta State Government has accused “enemies of progress” of feeding the media with reports of shootings and killings in the Ugborodo More...
Why is Jonathan Silent over Missing Billions?
President Goodluck Jonathan By Okey Ndibe LAGOS JABUARY 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-On December 9 and 10, several websites and newspapers published a startling letter that Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank More...
Delta: Itsekiri Leaders Say Ugborodo Community is Peaceful for EPZ Investment
Itsekiri Monarch As against speculations of a purported crisis said to be rocking Ugborodo community in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, indigenes and community heads of Madangho, Ajaudaibo, More...
Diezani Alison-Madueke Allegedly Plans To Sell Refineries To Fronts, Associates
Minister of Petrleum Resources, Mrs Deziani Allison -Madueke LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The planned sale of Nigeria’s four refineries next year is a well-designed scam calculated to hand over the country’s More...
Delta: Warri Refinery Re-Opens this Week
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), which was recently shut down, following a fire outbreak, would resume operations this week. The Warri Depot Manager of the More...
Gory Tales of Dehumanization of NNPC Teaching Staff
Fejiro Oliver LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Against the backdrop of a communiqué issued by the Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity on 20th January, 1992, directing all oil companies in More...
How NNPC, oil marketers connive with Swiss oil dealers to rob Nigeria of billions of dollars – Report
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2013(URHOBOTODAY)-A new report has detailed how the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in cohort with major Swiss oil trading companies, is draining Nigeria of billions of dollars of More...
How State Supports Theft of Crude Oil and Refined Petroleum Products
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Crude oil and refined petroleum products theft in Nigeria is increasing by the day, constituting a serious threat to the economy. Being an extremely organised crime, it poses a More...
Delta: Oil Workers Injured As PPMC Pipeline Explodes in Urhobo Community
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY) – A pipeline belonging to the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC) exploded on Saturday evening around Adeje, an oil hub in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State, More...
Fuel Crisis Looms as Oil Marketers Accuse House of Representative Committee of Interference, Witch Hunting
Speaker House Representative, Hon Aminu Tambuwa By Oghenekekevwe Laba LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-If the crisis that is gradually brewing between Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) More...
PIB: NNPC Faults NEITI Chairman on 13% Derivation
NEITI Chairman Mr Ledun Mitee JULY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has faulted recent comments credited to the Chairman of the Nigerian More...
Delta: Stolen Oil Stored in Ancestral Shrine
Commander 3 Battalion Army, Effurun, Delta State, Lt. Col Ifeanyi Otu LAGOS JULY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Army 3rd Battalion has discovered stolen petroleum products hidden in ancestral shrine in Egbokoda More...
Arrest EFCC Boss for Me, Judge Orders IGP
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, LAGOS JUNE 26TH (URHOBOTODAY) Justice Peter Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed More...
NEITI Indicts Jonathan, Other PDP Govts for Encouraging Corruption in Oil Industry
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (URHOBOTODAY) The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative says government hardly implements its recommendations on accountability in the extractive industry. The deliberate inactions More...
Ijaw Communities Raise Alarm over Desecration of Forests
Ekameta and Ogirengbene communities in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State have raised alarm over alleged invasion of their communities’ forests by Integrated Data Servicing Nigeria Limited, IDSL, in More...
Delta State: Chevron Vessel Capsize in Escravos
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture, has confirmed that Jascon #4 vessel belonging to its contractor, West African Ventures Limited, has capsized and sank in the early hours More...
Delta: Part of Warri Flooded as Water Reservoir Burst Again
LAGOS MAY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) The Warri-Effurun Water Supply Scheme, a project meant to provide potable water for residents of Warri and Effurun, has broken down again, causing flooding in parts of Warri township. Areas More...
Host Communities Monarchs Back NNPC Oil Block Deal in Delta State
Host communities of oil blocks 26, 30, 40 & 42 in Delta state have expressed support for the allocation of the oil block’s licence to an indigenous company Atlantic Energy Concept Limited by the NNPC subsidiary, More...
Marginalisation: Urhobo Youths Lament Exclusion from 3rd Phase Amnesty ….Demands minimum 50 Job Slots from NNPC
The Urhobo National Youth Congress (UNYC), has accused the Federal Government (FG), of marginalisation of Urhobo Youths in the phase III of the amnesty programme. It also urged the Nigerian Petroleum Development More...