Senate Begins Probe on Waste of Power Funds Under Obasanjo till Date
Obsanjo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Senate will on Tuesday begin investigation into alleged unwholesome practices in the power sector from the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo till More...
Why Buhari Dumps $182m Halliburton Bribe Scandal Report?…Conspiracy of Retired Army Generals
(l-r) Ibrahim Babangida,Olusegun Obsanjo and Muhammadu Buhari By George Elijah Otumu LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari surely meant well for the Nigerian people. His integrity, More...
Corruption Screening: APC Ministerial Hopefuls Withdraw CVs
President Muhammadu Bbuhari LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It has been reported that many of those angling for ministerial appointments have started developing cold feet and withdrawing from the selection process. Checks More...
Obasanjo Accuses Jonathan, Soyinka of Attacking Him
Obasanjo (l) and Jonathan (r) LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Barely one week, after he defended his choice of successor in 2007, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pointedly accused former President Goodluck More...
Buhari, Obasanjo @ Cross Road: Former President Seeking Return to PDP
Obasanjo and Buhari LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-There are indications that Ex President, Olusegun Obasanjo, who publicly ripped his party’s membership card, is scheming to return to the party through the back More...
Halliburton: Buhari Reopens $182m Bribery Case, to Prosecute Obasanjo
Obasanjo and Buhari LAGOS JULY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United States government has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to revisit the $182 million Halliburton bribery case and diligently prosecute all those involved More...
Buhari Likely to Take Over Control of Ministry of Petroleum, Mocks Media over Ministerial List
Buhari LAGOS JUNE 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) – President Muhammadu Buhari is likely to keep the oil portfolio for himself in the new Nigerian cabinet, rather than trust anyone else with the source of most of Nigeria’s More...
Buhari,Osibajo’ Salaries, Allowances Revealed
LAGOS MAY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, and his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, will earn annual basic salaries of N3, 514, 705 and N3, 031, 572.50 respectively, according to the information More...
Transparency Int’l Rates Jonathan’s Govt above Buhari, Obasanjo’s Govt
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS MAY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Contrary to general believes the Transparency International has rated the out going government of Presidet Goodluck Jonathan as the best compare the past More...
Obasanjo, Buhari in another Close Door Meeting
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari has for the second time since Buhari’s victory, met, this time in Abuja. It is not yet clear what the More...
Nigerians Expect a Lot from You, Obasanjo Tells Buhari
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in group picture with APC Leaders LAGOS APRIL 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the President-elect Muhammadu Buhari to realize that Nigerians are expecting More...
Boko Haram’s Agitation Is Legitimate…Olusegun Obasanjo
Olusegun Obasanjo LAGOS MARCH 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ex president Olusegun Obasanjo has indicated that the Boko Haram sect has legitimate grievances. Criticising the response of the current administration to the insurgency, More...
Stop Instigating Nigerians against Jonathan, Ex-Militants Warn Obasanjo, Buhari
The meeting was allegedly held at the residence of seriaki Dicksonelsa,Yenogoa,Seriake Dickson,Goodluck Jonthan,Oulsegun Obasanjo,Mohammadu Buhari LAGOSMARCH 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Ex-militant leaders from Nigeria’s More...
Defence Headquarters Slams Obasanjo, Says He is an Embarrassment to the Military
Olusegun Obasanjo LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military has slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an embarrassment to the force he once served, hours after Mr. Obasanjo on Monday announced More...
Obasanjo Bows Out of PDP
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo has resigned his membership of Peoples Democratic (PDP). Obasanjo who tore his party membership card also announced his exist from partisan More...
Obasanjo Denies Endorsing Buhari
Gen Olusegun Obasanjo LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Contrary to reports in some section of the media, Nigerian former President, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo has denied saying he endorsed the APC Presidential candidate More...
2015: Buhari Denies Failed Health Report, Says ‘I Dey Kampe’
APC Presidential candidate, Gen Mohammadu Buhari LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari has denied media reports that he More...
Stella Oduah, Andy Mba Kick Out of Senate Race
Stella Oduah LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former aviation minister sacked in February 2014 for purchasing two BMW cars at a highly-inflated price has failed to make the list of People’s Democratic Party senatorial More...
Oluremi Oyo, Ex-NAN MD, Dies of Cancer in UK
Oluremi Oyo LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oluremi Oyo, is dead. She was aged 62. Her Husband, Vincent Oyo confirmed the death, saying his wife succumbed More...
EFCC Declares Nyako Wanted, Ex-Deputy Gov Grilled for Hours
Nyako LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the ousted Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, wanted. FrontiersNews gathered that the leadership of the 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...
Rotimi Amaechi Legal Battles and Enrichment of Judiciary
Rotimi Amaechi By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze LAGOS APRIL 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was the world acknowledged*military strategist and former PrimeMinsiter of Great Britain Winston Churchill, who stated that, ‘All the great More...
UNODC Boss, Obasanjo, Giade Take Campaign against Drug Consumption to Austria
By Oghenekevwe Laba Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, former President of Nigeria and current Chair of West African Commission on Drugs (WACD), President More...
Nigerian Youths Showers Encomiums on Obasanjo at 76, Says He is a Bridge Builder
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS MARCH 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)– The National Youth Coalition for Good Governance in Nigeria (NAYCOGG) has showered encomiums on Former President Olusegun Obasanjo More...
Edwin Clark’s Wife Accuses Obasanjo, Iyabo of Killing Her Two Children
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (r) and his daughter Iyabo LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Dr. Bisola Clark, wife of elder-statesman, Senator Edwin Clark, yesterday, accused former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and daughter, More...