Jonathan Raises Alarm, Says Powerful Forces Are After Him for Failing Election
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS APRIL 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has raised the alarm that some powerful forces in the country are after him following his inability to win the March 28 general More...
We Did Not See Chibok Girls, Military Tell Jonathan
LAGOS MARCH 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military has found no clues of more than 200 school girls abducted nearly a year ago by Boko Haram, despite retaking several territories from the insurgent group, Army More...
Meeting: Yoruba Muslim Clerics Snub Presidency Again
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS MARCH 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Yoruba Muslim clerical leaders under the aegis of the League of Imams and Alfas have snubbed the Presidency over an invitation to them for a meeting that More...
Tragedies of Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration
President Goodluck Jonathan By Festus Keyamo This is a season of hire-wired deceits, misinformation, campaign of calumny and spewing of outright falsehood and lies – all to hoodwink and deceive ordinary and gullible More...
Obuh: Abuja Can’t Decide for Deltans-Ayiri: You Can’t Impose him on Us, Lawyer Tells Ayiri
Tony Obuh LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Itsekiri Leader and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bigwig in Delta State, Chief Emami Ayiri has insisted on the imposition of Mr. Tony Obuh as governor of Delta State in More...
WorldStage National Electricity Conference to Tackle Post-Privatization Challenges
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)- With about 30 million households in Nigeria still without access to electricity at the dawn of a new era in Nigeria’s liberalized electricity power sector, the 4th WorldStage More...
Rivers APC wants Presidency Zoned to N’Delta
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has demanded that the position of the president, the vice president or the national chairman of the party should be zoned to the Niger More...
Goodluck Jonthan Apprehensives Over Kidnapped Uncle
Chief Inegite Nitabel LAGOS MARCH 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Associates of President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that the Presidency is apprehensive over the fate of 70-year-old foster father of President Goodluck Jonathan, More...
Defection: Clark Lampoons Atiku, Says He is Desperate for Presidency
Alhaji Abubakar Atiku LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)- FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday lampooned erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar over his defection More...
Presidency Pressures Senate to Halt Probe of Missing N8 trillion Oil Funds
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Senate has come under intense pressure from the presidency, the petroleum ministry and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC] More...
ACF, Northern Elders Reject INEC Timetable, Want Election Conducted in One Day
INEC Chairman, Prof Atahiru Jega LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Political pressure groups from the north have rejected staggered elections as contained in the timetable the Independent National Electoral Commission More...
G.7 Governors are Seeking for Relevance- Ex-Delta Governor Aspirant, Onuesoke
Chief Sunny Onuesoke Former Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Aspirant in 2007 and currently Special Project Director in the office of Delta State Governor, Chief Sunny Onuesoke in this More...
Update: Presidency Denies Flying Asari Dokubo in Presidential Jet after Release
Asari Dokubo LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidency on Thursday denied reports that the leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, who was released by security officials More...
Ex-Militants Accuse FG, NPDC of Marginalising Urhobo People
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Ex-militants of Urhobo origin have frowned at an alleged attempt by the Federal Government and the management of Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) to short change the More...
I Did Not Sign Any Document to Serve for Single Term-Goodluck Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan (Second from left) during the media chat with journalits yesterday LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has denied ever signing a document to serve the nation More...
Delta Central Senatorial Bye-Election; Omo-Agege Withdraws from Primary, Pledges Support for Party ‘Preferred’ Candidate
Chief Ovie Omo-Agege By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party Delta Central Senatorial Aspirant Chief Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege has announced his withdrawal from the primary More...
Presidency Places Atiku, Baraje, Other PDP Faction Leaders Under Security Watch
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS SE[TEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered round-the-clock security surveillance on leaders of the breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party led More...
Why We are Taking over PDP from Jonathan, Tukur — New Factional Chairman, Baraje
Below is the full text of a speech by the new factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic, Abubakar Kawu Baraje, at a press conference in Abuja where a new faction of the ruling party was unveiled. We address More...
Convention: PDP Moves To Axe “Unfriendly” Aspirants, Shifts Screening To Friday
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have begun subtle moves to scratch aspirants for public office considered as “unfriendly.” A PDP insider told SaharaReporters, More...
Group Appeals to Presidency, NASS to Immotalise Late Senator Ewherido
Late Senator Pius Ewherido By TheophilusOnojeghen The Presidency and the National Assembly have been urged to as a sign of respect and for his unequal contribution to legislative business at the senate to urgently More...
Be careful of Your Sycophant Aides, Obasanjo Warns Jonathan
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to beware of some of his aides who are making more enemies for him under the pretext More...
Akwa Ibom Youth Condemns Northerners Attack on Akpabio
Godswill Akpabio By Oghenekevwe Laba An Akwa Ibom Youth organization under the aegis of Akwa Indigenes Development Initaitive (AKIDI) has condemned in its entirety the uncouth utterances on the Governor of Akwa More...
2015: Igbos in Diaspora Insist on South East Presidency, Slam Fashola over Deportation
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group made up of persons of South East origin, Ndi-Igbo in the Diaspora, has thrown its weight behind the call for the South East to produce Nigeria’s president in 2015. The More...
I’m Eligible to Run for 2015 Presidency – Jonathan Tells APC
President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan declared yesterday that interim national chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande and his party has every reason to fear because he More...
Amaechi, Jang Clash again as NGF Faction Summons Meeting
Jang and Amaechi LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Factional Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, leading a group of 19 More...