DSS Continuous Detention of Delta Journalist:Buhari Group Urges Lai Mohammed to Intervene
Minister of Information Lai Mohammed LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A passionate appeal has been made to the Honourable Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to urgently intervene and influence the release More...
Yuletide: Onuesoke Counsels Deltans on the Gains of ‘Living Together’
Chief Sunny Onuesoke Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain and 2007 Delta PDP Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has called on the people of Delta state on the need of living together as More...
Delta: Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Killed 30 Years Old Farmer, Seize Decomposing Corpse of Victim
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Zanna Ibrahim By Amos Okioma. LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Suspected Fulani Herdsmen in a renewed attack has shot dead a 30 year old man identified as Kester Macpherson at More...
Delta: Thieves in Army Camouflage Burgle Ughelli Union Bank, Cart Away N25m
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Thieves suspected to be armed robbers dressed Army camouflage at the weekend stormed a branch of Union Bank in Ughelli and carted away N25 million. Our source revealed that More...
Protesting Ndokwa Youths Hold Delta SSG Hostage over Menace of Fulani Herdsmen
Delta State SSG, Ovie Agas LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Secretary to the State Government of Delta, Mr Festus Ovie Agas, is currently being held hostage by some protesting youths from Osissa community in the More...
Top Commander of N’Delta Greenland Justice Mandate Nab With His Four Foot Soldiers
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A top commander of the Urhobo/Isoko militant group, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), has been nabbed by the operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the oil-rich More...
Delta: Sixty Years Old Mman Committed Suicide Over Hunger in Ughelli
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A 60-year-old man in Ughelli north local government area of Delta state has committed suicide, citing his inability to feed and provide for his immediate family as reasons for his More...
Urhobo Women Barricade East-West Road, Protest Army Intimidation, Arrest of Indigenes
Women protesting at East-Wwest Road,Ughelli axis yesterday LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Scores of women from Iwhre-Nene community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday blocked a side More...
N’Delta: Army Officers Fingered In Oil Rackets, Extortion of Truck Owners
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Events surrounding a recent seizure of three fuel laden Mack tankers by army men of 3rd Battalion stationed at Warri, Delta State, their consequent alleged attempt at extorting More...
Delta: Two Fulani Tanker Drivers Arrested Over Kidnap of SARS Police Officer
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a police officer attached to the Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Delta state Police Command. The SARS officer identified More...
Muslims In Delta Celebrate Low-key Eid-el-Kabir
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A seemingly desolate environments and high cost of food items, yesterday, greeted Eid-el-Kabir Muslims’ celebration across Delta state. With few tricycle riders in Asaba, it More...
Operation Crocodile Smile: Food, Transportation Crises Hit Delta, Bayelsa
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)—Several riverine communities, including Oporoza and Ogulagha in Delta State, and Ezetu, Aggeh and others in Bayelsa State, have been struck by food and transportation crises More...
Operation Crocrodile Smile: Soldiers Arrest Suspected Criminals in Ughelli Raid
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Reports reaching Urhobotoday revealed that Operation Crocodile Smile launched recently by Nigeria Army in Delta state has started yielding result with arrest of suspected criminals More...
Urhobo Militants Declare ‘Operation Crocodile Tears’, Blow Up Oil Pipeline
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-At a time when Niger Delta Avengers have declared an end to attacks in the region, an Urhobo militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Movement, NDGJM, has on Tuesday blown up More...
Transcorp Suspends N320bn Power plant Due to Gas Scarcity
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Transnational Corporation of Nigeria, Transcorp Plc has suspended plans to build one of the nation’s biggest power plants as local gas shortage makes it difficult to obtain fuel More...
Prominent Nigerians Bade Felix Ibru Farewell as He Joins His Ancestors Today
Olorogun Felix IbruDelta State,Governor,Senator,Asaba, LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Prominent Nigerians including the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Chief James Ibori, Dr. Emmanuel More...
Delta: Pandemonium as Gunmen Invade Ughelli legislative chambers, injure Nine Councilors
LAGOS JULY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Nine persons on Thursday sustained various degrees of injury following an invasion by a gang of armed hoodlums who invaded the legislative chambers of the Ughelli South local government More...
Delta: Angry Mob Burn Suspected Serial Ritualist, Rapist Alive in Ughelli
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Angry mob this morning set ablaze a young man suspected to be a serial ritual killer and rapist. Attempt by the police and local vigilante to whisk the suspect away was futile More...
How Vigilante Recover Corpse of Kidnapped Warri College of Education Lecturer in Shallow Grave
Shallow grave where Isaac Dittimiya was buried by his abductrors LAGOS MAY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The corpse of a lecturer in College of Education, Warri , Delta State, Mr Isaac Dittimiya, abducted February 15th, More...
Delta: Starving Villagers Cry Out for Help as Oil Spill Ravage Urhobo Community of Otor-Edo (PHOTOS)
LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The people of Urhobo community of Otor-Edo, Ughelli South local government area OF Delta State has appealed to Delta State government, private organizations, religious organizations More...
Delta State: Nigeria Police Helpless as Hoodlums Kill, Rob, Kidnap Ughelli Residents on Daily Basis
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS MAY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents of once peaceful Ughelli community of Ughelli-North LGA, Delta State are gripped with palpable fear following incessant kidnappings, armed robbery and More...
Delta: How Ughelli Lawyer, Okoriko Escapes from Kidnappers Den in Oghara Forest
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-We have heard of kidnapped victims gaining freedom through assistant of security agents or payment of huge ransom to their abductors. But Barr. John Okoriko, an Ughelli More...
Unknown Gunmen Kill PDP Chieftain in Delta
IGP Solomon Arase LAGOS APRIL 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-A five man gang of suspected assassins on Wednesday night shot dead a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in cold blood at Ughelli, Delta State. The victim, More...
Vanguard Correspondent, Ahon, Ominimini, Jaro Egbo, Itihwe, Others knighted in Ughelli
Bishop of the Ughelli Diocese, Delta State, Rt. Rev. Cyril Odutemu By Omamuzo Efidhere LAGOS APRIL 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-At least 23 persons, including Vanguard’s correspondent, Comrade Festus Ahon, Chief Jaro Egbo, More...
Easter: DESOPADEC Managing Director, Makinde Urges Deltans to Emuliate Virutes of Forgiveness,Self-Sacrifice
Makinde LAGOS MARCH 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As Christians celebrate Easter today, the Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) Olorogun Williams Makinde, has called More...