Obama Breaks Silence, Backs Protesters Oppose To Trump Immigration Order
Obama LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (RHOBOTODAY)— Former President Barack Obama praised protesters who amassed across the country in opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration orders, breaking his silence on More...
DESOPADEC Staff Go Naked in Protest of Non-Payment of End of Year Bonuses
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some workers of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) stripped naked on Monday, January 9, to protest the non-payment of their bonuses by the commission. The More...
Police Beef Up Security In Washington as Anarchists Threaten to Disrupt Trump Inauguration
Donald Trump LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Anarchist groups have threatened to shut down Republican Donald Trump’s swearing-in as U.S. president, but police in Washington said on Friday they believe the More...
6,000 March in Los Angeles in Fifth Day Of Anti-Trump Protest
Protesters gather on the steps of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. (Deborah Netburn / Los Angeles Times) LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)Thousands of marchers took to the streets of Los Angeles on Saturday More...
#EdoElection: Protesters Besiege Benin INEC Office as Obaseki Emerges Governor Elect
PDP protesters in front of Edo State INEC office LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State are presently protesting at the office of Independent National Electoratl Commission, More...
Nigerians Vow to Resist Further Fuel Price Hike
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, Afenifere, former federal lawmakers, security experts and rights activists on Saturday vowed to resist any attempt by the President More...
Buhari’s Campaign Bodyguards Protest Against Exclusion from Government
Buhari LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-About 16 months after the 2015 Presidential elections, bodyguards of President Muhammadu Buhari who participated during the campaigns on Thursday protested against their “exclusion” More...
Protesting Ibori’s Kinsmen Shut Down Warri/Benin Expressway, Demand Evacuation of Navy From Oghara
Protesting Oghara indegees closed busy Warri/Benin Express Road LAGOS JULY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Protesting kinsmen of former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori’s kinsmen and indigenes of Oghara, in Ethiope More...
Warri Residents Protest over Incessant Economic Hardship, Corruption in Delta Government
File Photo LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Socio-economic activities were Thursday paralysed in some parts of Warri and its environs in Delta State as hundreds of people marched through the major roads protesting More...
Traders Shut Down Business at Alaba International Market in Protest over Bank’s Land Encroachment
Closed shops at Alaba International Market as a result of the protest LAGOS MAY 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Traders at Alaba International market today (Thursday} shut down their businesses and paralyzed activities of More...
Fuel Price Hike: NLC, TUC To Go Ahead With Strike Despite Court Order
File Photo LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Despite an order of the National Industrial Court restraining the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress from going ahead with their planned strike to protest More...
68 Delta Retirees Die over Unpaid Pension
Okowa LAGOS APRIL 9TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta state Association of Contributory Retirees (ACR) yesterday protested over the non-payment of their pension. The retirees numbering over 500 protested to the House of Assembly More...
Delta: Ndokwa Irate Youths Blow Up Pipelines, Seize 11 Tankers
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The angry youths also seized 11 oil tankers belonging to the oil company after they reportedly hijacked what was initially a peaceful protest organised by women in the community to More...
Lepers Protest over Alleged Pay Cut, Neglect in Delta
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Peeved by the alleged cut of their monthly stipends by the state government, over 500 inmates of the Leprosy Rehabilitation Camp in Eku, Ethiope East Local Council of Delta State More...
Journalists Shut Down THISDAY, Protest Non Payment of Salaries, Tax Remittance, Pension Deduction
LAGOS JULY 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-On Tuesday, the Nigerian Union of Journalists protested on the premises of ThisDay Newspapers in Apapa, Lagos, to demand the nine months of salaries owed to its members. The strikers More...
Official INEC Result: PDP Takes Early Lead in Nine States
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the 2015 Presidential Election, incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has taken an early lead in released results from eight state More...
Rivers: Ijaw Youth Council, Civil Society Groups Protest against Kidnap of Medical Doctors
IYC Protesters LAGOS MARCH 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaw Youth Council, (IYC) Worldwide Thursday took to the street of Port Harcourt protesting the incessant kidnapping and killing of doctors and others in the state. Other More...
Delta: Urhobo Oil Rich Community Protest over Neglect, Bad Roads
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ekrokpe community, the traditional headquarters of Uhurie sub-clan of Ughievwen Kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, erupted with a peaceful demonstration More...
Protest Rocks Kano over Appointment of Ex-CBN Gov, Sanusi as Emir
Former CBN Governor, Lamido Sanusi LAGOS JUNE 8TH (URHOBOTODAY) – The appointment of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as the new Emir of Kano ahead of the nominee More...
26 Days to World Cup: Protests, Strikes Rock Brazil
LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Brazil faced a test of its security preparations for the World Cup on Thursday as demonstrators aghast at the cost of the event joined protests and strikes in several major cities. Ongoing More...
Ibori: 7,000 Deltans Protest against London Court
Chief James Onanefe Ibori LAGOS MAY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) – A mass protest was held, Friday morning, in Warri, Delta State, as over 7,000 youths, women and men moved round the town, calling for the immediate release More...
Delta State Poly Shut Down Indefinitely Over Students Protest
Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof Hope Eghagha LAGOS APRIL 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe, Oghara was on Friday shut down by the school management following a serious unrest More...
Students Shut Down University in Jonathan’s Village over Unconducive Learning Environment
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Students of the Federal University located in President Goodluck Jonathan’s hometown of Otuoke in Bayelsa State, on Thursday protested what they More...
6 Slump during Protest against Disappearance of 3,000 Employment Forms for Delta Fire Service Recruitment
Protesting unemployed Delta State youths LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than 3000 recruitment forms for the Delta State Civil Service Fire Department allegedly vanished yesterday. In line with Dr. Emmanuel More...
MASSOB Moves Protests to Ughelli, Ikom, Ogoja
The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has said it is planning a protest against the dislodgement of the Bakassi indigenes and the Odi massacre. A statement issued yesterday More...