Wike to Empower Mama-Put Operators, Onion Sellers, Barbers, Others in Rivers State
Wike LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Small business owners in Rivers State are to benefit from a N2billion micro-credit scheme without necessarily providing collateral, Governor Nyesom Wike has said. The governor More...
Gunmen Kidnap Dickson’s Aide as Sister Spends 42 Days in Kidnappers’ Den
Seriake Dickson’s junior sister, Nancy LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (URHOBOODAY)-Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an aide to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, Captain Henry Ungbuku (rtd). Ungbuku, who is the Special More...
Buhari Reaffirms His Administration Commitment to Clean Up Ogoni Land
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed his administration’s steadfast commitment to the implementation of the United Nations Environmental Programme’s recommendations for More...
Supreme Court Upholds Governor Wike’s Election
Wike LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the election of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike declaring that the election was conducted in line with the Electoral Act. In More...
Lassa Fever Kills Medical Doctor In Port-Harcourt
Wike,Rivers Governor LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Panic and fear of the unknown on Thursday gripped doctors, nurses, medical personnel and patients of the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital, old GRA, Port More...
Buhari Names Ex-Rivers Commissioner Ibim Semenitari As Acting Managing Director Of NDDC
Ibim-semenatari LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has named Ibim Semenitari the new Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Mrs. Semenitari, a former More...
$300,000 Indictment of Buhari: PDP Insists of Neutral Body Investigation of Dasukigate
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY) –The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the denial by President Muhammadu Buhari on the alleged benefit from funds relating to the arms deal scandal, and the consequent controversy More...
Appeal Court Judgment : Governor Wike heads to Supreme Court
Wike LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has instructed his lawyers to appeal the judgment of the Court of Appeal which ordered fresh governorship election in the State. In a statement More...
NJC Sacks Judge that nullified Rivers LG election
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Judicial Commission [NJC] has reportedly dismissed Justice Mambo Akanbi, the Judge who gave the June 9, 2015, judgement that sacked the 22 Local Government chairmen More...
Agip’s Pipeline Oil Spill Kill 15 in Rivers State
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Over 15 persons have been reported dead in Emago/Kugbo community in Abua/ Odual Local Government Area of Rivers State, following the recent oil spill that occurred in the area, More...
Port Harcourt Residents Exhume Buried Frozen Chicken Seized By Custom (PHOTOS)
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-What happened in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State recently is a great revelation of the starvation in the country. Men, women and children were spotted struggling among themselves to More...
APC Cannot Take South-South States from PDP-Onuesoke
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-A high level chieftain/leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in South-South, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has expressed confidence that despite the present annulment More...
Rivers: Port Harcourt Comes Alive as Int’l Trade Fair Kicks-Off in December
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Port Harcourt International Trade fair is once again by the corner, starting from December 4th to 17th 2015. For this year’s edition the slogan is ‘Low Prices, new Outlook’. More...
Former Chairman of Rivers Tribunal Reveals How He Was Threatened By DSS Before Removal
< LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Justice Pindigi, the former chairman of the Rivers state governorship petitions tribunal, has recounted his experience at the tribunal. He said, “Two weeks before I was removed More...
Supreme Court Throws Out Ousted Gov. Wike’s Appeal
Ousted Wike LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The ousted Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has lost his bid to nullify the sitting of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja. The Supreme More...
Rivers Tribunal Nullifies Election of Speaker and 20 Lawmakers
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Rivers State elections petition tribunals sitting in Abuja have nullified the election of the Speaker, Owaji Ibani from Andoni constituency and 20 lawmakers in Rivers state More...
Delta Tribunal: Anxiety Grips Deltans as Okowa, O’tega Know Fate Today
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)—There is heavy tension in Delta State as the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Asaba, will today deliver judgment on the petition by Olorogun O’tegha More...
Ministerial Screening: Full Text of Amaechi’s Address to Senate
Rotimi Amaechi addressing Ssenate during Ministerial Screening LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) Your Excellency, the President of Senate, Your Excellency, the Deputy President of Senate Your Excellency, the leader More...
CNN Survey Rates Port-Harcourt Airport One of the Worst in the World
Port harcourt Airport LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-This year’s survey, which asked fliers to identify the world’s worst and best aviation terminals, attracted 26,297 qualifying responses. Sleeping in Airports’ More...
UK High Commission Denies Presenting Alamieyeseigha Extradition Request To Buhari
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Baylesa Governor, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha died in a Port Harcourt Hospital on Saturday, October 10, 2015 after suffering a cardiac arrest. Pro-APC news More...
Amaechi’s Fate Hangs as Senate Defer Screening
Amaechi LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Senate,Tuesday, failed to screen the former governor of Rivers State,Rotimi Amaechi along other first batch of ministerial nominees. The screening of the former Director More...
Amaechi’s Nomination Causes Uproar In Senate
Amaechi LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The announcement of the ministerial nominees yesterday, October 6, by Senate President Bukola Saraki resulted in a rowdy plenary session today. Trouble started after Senator More...
Corruption: Go to Court, Amaechi Dares Wike
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Recall that Wike had made several corruption allegations against the former governor who is rumoured to be on the highly awaited ministerial list of ‘President Muhammadu Buhari. Amaechi More...
Buhari is Not Focus, Behaves like Hitler – Dokubo Asari
Asari Dokubo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Asari Dokubo, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has failed to meet the expectation of More...
Five Dead as Explosion Rocks Port Harcourt
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-About five persons are feared dead in a gas explosion that occurred at a place they sell gas on Eliozu area of Port Harcourt. Details at press time were hazy. The Rivers state More...