Uduaghan Takes “Delta Beyond Oil”Message to the U.S.
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS MARCH 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan has taken the message of Delta Beyond Oil to the United States to 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...
Group Tasks Jonathan over Missing Oil Money
President Goodluck Jonathan By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Group under the aegis of Transform Nigeria Citizens Initiative (TNCI) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to come out and More...
NASS Set to Approve Petroleum Industry Bill
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The House of Representatives’ Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream oil sector) on Wednesday said that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will be passed soon by the National More...
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What Nigerians’ll Gain on Refineries’ Privatisation
Minister of Petrleum Resources, Deziani Allison-Madueke By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The pronouncement of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke over plans by the 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...
Group Petitions Defence HQ over Soldiers Extortion, Harassment of Indigenes in Bayelsa
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)- The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in Bayelsa State has petitioned the Nigerian Army Defence Headquarters over alleged misconduct and extortion by some soldiers in the state. The More...
JTF Smashes Robbery Gang, Arrest Oil Thieves in Niger Delta
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta said on Thursday that it had captured a gang of sea robbers in the waterways in Rivers State. The JTF Media Coordinator, Lt.-Col. 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...
N-Delta Youths Threaten Resistance of Appointment of Non-Indigene as NDDC Boss
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)— YOUTHS from oil producing communities in Niger Delta states have kicked against the appointment of a non-indigene of oil producing communities as the Managing Director/Chief More...
Another Look at DESOPADEC Policies
By: Charles Ikedikwa Soeze It is a truism to say that Delta State contributes marvellously well to the federation account through oil for the development of the entire country. I think that was why in 2006 the More...
How to Move DESOPADEC Forward
By: Charles Ikedikwa Soeze It is a truism to say that Delta State contributes marvellously well to the federation account through oil for the development of the entire country. I think that was why in 2006 the More...
How Urhobos are Marginalised in DESOPADEC
By Jude Ekrakitie The marginalisation of the Urhobos both the Federal and state level despite they being majority is no more news. But the new development is the the total marginalisation of the Urhobos Delta More...
Delta: 40 Toxic Waste Dumps Found in Ndokwa Community
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ndokwa East Coastal Towns and Communities Consultative Forum (NECTCCF), has discovered more than 40 toxic waste dumps in the bush and residential areas along Ogwashi-Uku – Kwale More...
We are Greatly Marginalised- Isoko Youth Leader
Comrade Lawrence Emuobonuvie Owhe is the President of Isoko Youth Warri branch Comrade Lawrence Emuobonuvie Owhe is the President of Isoko Youth Warri branch. In this report he speaks on the gap between the leaders More...
Delta: Urhobo Youths Lament Neglect by Oil Companies, Threatens to Shut Down Oil Facilities
By Oghenekevwe Laba Urhobo youths youths in Delta State under the aegis of Udu Youth Council (UYC) has lamented neglect and marginalization by oil companies operating in Utorogun Gas Plant Phase 1 and 2 and the More...
Illegal Bunkering: Pregnant Woman, Nursing Mother, Tompolo’s Men Nabbed In Delta
As the battle to stop crude oil theft in the Niger Delta gathers momentum, soldiers attached to the 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, over the weekend, arrested a pregnant woman, a nursing More...
Navy Intensifies Battle Against Illegal Bunkering In N’Delta, Deploys Gunboat, More Patrol Vessels
LAGOS 24 MAY (URHOBOTODAY) The Nigerian Navy has intensified the campaign against crude oil theft in the Niger Delta by deploying a gunboat and more patrol vessels to patrol the creeks and waterways of the oil-rich More...
Drama as N75m Oil Fraud Suspect Threatens to Attack Journalist
(R-L)Suspected Kingpin of the syndicate Clement Aladdah Eneche, Lawrence Amakri and and Lawrence Audu By Oghenekevwe Laba, Lagos There was drama at the premises of Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, Lagos on Tuesday More...
Shell Commends FG, Says Crude Theft in N/Delta Reducing
Nigerian unit of Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has admitted that the spate of crude oil theft from its facilities in the Niger Delta was reducing, a development he attributed to the surveillance of the Joint Task More...