OML 30: Urhobo Youth Leader Hails Oil Coys For Engaging Indigenes In Securing Facilities
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-An Urhobo youth leader from Kokori oil producing community in OML30, in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Comrade Odiri Umukoro, said he is satisfied that indigenes More...
How 13%, NDDC Benefits Are Hijacked From Oil Communities
Mike Owhoko By Michael Owhoko LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Contrary to widely held view that core oil producing areas in the Niger Delta are benefiting from 13 percent derivation and the Niger Delta Development More...
Navy Declares War On Niger Delta Avengers, As Okowa Sues For Peace
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibo-Ete Ibas, declared on Monday, that the Nigerian Navy had reinforced security measures to combat militancy, insurgency, sea pirates, kidnapping More...
Okowa Sets To Abolish Collection of ‘Deve’ In Delta State
Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS MARCH 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has disclosed that plans were under way to abolish illegal collection of development levies by communities More...
Okowa Warns against Use of Military as Panacea to Niger Delta Crisis
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, has warned against the use of military might in solving the lingering militancy crisis in the Niger Delta region. Okowa said this when he More...
Buhari to Visit Niger Delta On Thursday
Buhari LAGOS MAY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari will this week make his first visit as president to Nigeria’s oil-producing south, which has been riven by an upsurge in violence from militants, More...
FG Slams Shell, Chevron, Agip, Others N2trn Lawsuit over Alleged Oil Fraud
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The federal government has reportedly filed lawsuits against multinational oil corporations – Shell, Chevron, Agip and other major oil companies for failing remit N2 trillion More...
AMCON Takes Over Aero Contractors, Dissolves Board
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over Aero Contractors after dissolving its board of directors. It has also appointed a manager over the affairs of the More...
FG Slashes Import Licenses Given To Oil Marketers From 43 To 29
LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government has issued licenses to import refined petroleum products to 29 major oil marketers in a bid to end the fuel scarcity being witnessed across the country. The More...
$200,000 Paid for Release of Sister of Jonathan’s Aide-MEND
Augusta-Douglas-Ayam_0_0 LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) today said it could authoritatively confirm that the sum of 200,000 US Dollars was paid as ransom More...