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...
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...
Petroleum Minister: Senate Set Condition for Buhari
Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-According to vanguard, indications have emerged that today’s plenary session, where the Senate would unveil the ministerial list sent by President Muhammadu Buhari, may be More...
Cash Crunch Hits Nigerian Senators, Reps
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian Senators and Members of House of Representatives have been hit by biting liquidity crisis as legislative business comes to a stand still, Elombah.com investigations have More...
Central Bank of Nigeria, a Monster House of Corruption
By Femi Ayeni LAGOS JUNE 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Central Bank of Nigeria [CBN] under the leadership of Godwin Emefiele last week disclosed that it spent over 290billion Naira for its over heads, salaries, traveling, More...
Senate Approves Six Months Jail for Smokers in Public Places
LAGOS MAY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Senate on Tuesday passed Tobacco bill even as the lawmakers approved six months jail for anybody guilt of smoking in public places. However, the committee revealed in their findings More...
Ibori’s conviction cost British govt N4.4bn –Senate
Chief James Ibori LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman, Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and anti-corruption, Senator Victor Lar, revealed on Friday that a whopping sum of £14m (N4.4bn) More...
I Can’t Guarantee March 28th Election Date, Jega Tells Senate
Prof Atahiru Jega LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Attahiru Jega, has told Nigerian federal lawmakers he could not guarantee the 2015 general More...
Jonathan Sends Obanikoro’s Name, 7 Others Ministerial Nominees to Senate for Screening and Approval
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sent eight ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and approval. The names, contained in a letter signed More...
Why Urhobos Must Vote for Jonathan, Okowa?- Onuesoke
President Goodluck Jonathan and Senator Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As the date of the 2015 general election come closer, Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in 20071 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...
Jonathan, Aguariavbodo Gubernatorial Ambition and Matters Arising
Senator Emmanuel Aguariavbodo By Fejiro Oliver LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-“Once upon a time there was a politician who made an especially conspicuous ass of himself and didn’t say the newspapers is More...
Uduaghan Undergoes PDP Senatorial Screening, Says He is Most Qualified
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State(Left) Presenting his Documents to Mohammed Babangida Chairman PDP National Assembly Primaries (Right) LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel More...
I’m Going to Senate to Better Lives of Oil Producing Communities-Uduaghan
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan declared at the weekend that his ambition to represent Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly More...
Uduaghan Submits Senate Nomination Forms, Says He’ll Not Disappoint Deltans
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has bought and submitted his Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for the Delta More...
Senate Passes Late Ewherido’s Bill On Corporate Manslaughter
Late Senator Pius Ewherido LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)– The Senate on Tuesday posthumously honoured its fallen colleague, Senator Pius Ewherido, when it passed a bill on corporate manslaughter, which was More...
Delta Red Alert: DPP Decampees Set to Wrestle Power from PDP
LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Information reaching Urhobotoday an online medium has revealed that members of Delta State Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) who decamped to Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) More...
Senate Confirms Stephen Oru, Shekarau, Two Others Nomination as Minister
Dr Stephen Oru LAGOS JULY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Stephen Oru of Delta State, former Governor of Kano State Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau and two others as minister Oru More...
Lawyer Gives IGP 30 Days Ultimatum to Produce Policemen Indicted in Killing of Delta Politician
Late Chief Ogbe Onokpite By Oghenekevwe Laba LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Solicitors to group under the aegis of Urhobo New Face Youth Association and Diemo Onokpite, representative of the family of Delta State More...
Councillorship Aspirant, Adjagbara Urges Urhobo to Exercise Patient with Aguariavbodo
Tega David Adjagbara, councillorship aspirant ward I Uvwie LGA, By Ese Adagbra LAGOS MARCH 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Councillorship aspirant for Ward I Uvwie Local Government Area under the platform of the People’s Democratic 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...
Senate Decries Delay in Construction of East-West Road, Turns Down Orubebe’s Demands for Additional N113b
Minister of Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, on Thursday in Abuja said N113 billion is required to complete More...
52 Senators Object To Attempt To Declare Seats of Defectors Vacant
Senate President, David Mark LAGOS 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Fifty-two members of the Nigeria Senate, nearly half of its membership of 109, have written to the leadership of the National Assembly to express their objection More...
A Non-Performing Governor and his Inordinate Senatorial Ambition
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)’Ambition is the last refuge of the failure’. – Oscar Wilde Believe me when I say I write this with pain, real pain that More...