Delta: Fire Victims of Kolokolo Quarters in Warri Appeal for Help
Okowaolokolo Quaters,Enerhen,Warri,Uvwie,Delta State LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Victims of fire disaster in Kolokolo quarters of Enerhen in Uvwie Council area of Delta State are appealing to the Delta State More...
Delta Police Kill Four Armed Robbers in Warri Daylight Gun Battle
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than four suspected armed robbers were reportedly killed yesterday afternoon during a gun duel with Delta police in Warri, Delta State. According to report monitored 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...
See How Warri Angry Mob Beat Up A Man Who Steals A Lady’s Phone (PHOTOS)
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A young Nigerian young man identified as Kosi almost lost his life recently after he was caught with a Nokia torchlight phone he allegedly stole from a young lady. This incident More...
Tompolo’s Father Dies at 84, Weeks after Alleged Military Brutality
Thomas Osen Ekpemupolo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The father of a former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (also known as Tompolo), is dead, the Gbaramatu Voice, a community newspaper in Gbaramatu Kingdom, More...
Delta: Gunmen Kidnap Catholic Priest in Warri
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Gunmen suspectd to be kidnappers have abducted a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Paul Irikefe. Father Irikefe, arrived the state on Monday to attend the burial rites of his friend and More...
Onuesoke Attacks Masari for Criticising Jonathan
Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has reiterated that former President Goodluck Jonathan was More...
Militancy: Itsekiri, Ijaw Groups Differ over Talks with FG
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-An Ijaw group, Niger Delta Security Watch Organisation, NDSWO, has differed with the Warri Study Group, WSG, an Itsekiri group, over the latter’s denunciation of the purported More...
Residents Panic Over Heavy Military Presence in Warri
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was a widespread apprehension among residents of Warri and its environs in Delta State on Monday, following the deployment of troops and equipment in the ongoing military training More...
Premium Steel Acquisition of DSC: Another Step in a Wrong Direction
By Justice Iyasere LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-When the then Delta Steel Company, an integrated steel complex located in Ovwian-Aladja, Delta State was established and commissioned in 1982, it was designed More...
Niger Delta Crisis: Ibe Kachikwu meets Clark, Other Stakeholders in Warri
Ibe Kachikwu LAGOS AUGST 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday dispatched the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu to Warri,Delta State to meet with Niger Delta Stakeholders on how More...
Warri Spare Parts Dealer Kills Business Associate to Avoid Payment for Goods
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ogbaire, a spare parts dealer in Warri, Delta State, has allegedly murdered his associate, Lawrence Okoh, and buried his body in a shallow grave. On August 2, Okoh had left his Port More...
Militancy: Community Leaders Urge N’Delta Greenland Justice Mandate to Cease Fire
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Community leaders in upland oil producing area of Delta State have appealed to militant group under the aegis of Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate to dialogue with the Federal More...
South -South Leaders To Brainstorm On Ending Militancy In Niger Delta
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Prominent indigenes from the six South-South states have finalized plans to meet on Friday in Warri, Delta State, to brainstorm on ways to end militancy in the region. Frontline More...
Angry Villagers Force Chevron to Shut Down Warri Tank Farm
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Angry elders, leaders, youths and women of Ugborodo, an Itsekiri community, who laid siege to the tank farms located in their community since Tuesday have forced Chevron Nigeria More...
E.K. Clark Insists FG, Militants Dialogue Will Be Fruitless Without Ijaw Leaders
Chief Edwin Clark LAGOS JULY 31ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaw national leader Chief Edwin Clark said on Saturday that any dialogue between the Federal Government and militants in the Niger Delta would not yield result More...
Rio 2016: Nigeria’s 4x400m Women’s Relay Team Banned Over Drug Use
IAAF confirmed ban on Tosin Adeloye LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s hope for medals in the forthcoming Olympic Games has been dashed again with the ban of the women’s 4x400m relay team over drug use. Tosin More...
Raymond Edijala Lauds Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor’s Leadership Qualities as CAN President
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor LAGOS JULY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Immediate past Chairman of Udu Local Government Council of Delta State, Hon. Raymond Edijala has commended the leadership qualities of the outgoing President More...
Omene Remains President-General of UPU as Urhobo Monarch, Leaders Agree to Settle Out of Court
LAGOS JULY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The leadership crisis in the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU has finally been laid to rest with the Reconciliation Committee set up by concerned Urhobo leaders and endorsed by Urhobo monarchs More...
Police Clear Bishop Accused of Sponsoring Avengers, Arraign Two for False Information
LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta State Police Command on Thursday arraigned two suspects for false information where they had claimed that a bishop of a new generation church in Warri was sponsoring fleeing More...
Hausas, Yorubas Dare Avengers, Say They Won’t Leave Niger Delta
LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)– Against the recent threat by Niger Delta militants that Northerners and Westerners should quit the region and return to their various regions, the youth leaders of the Hausa and More...
Massive Spill as Avengers Bomb Shell Facilities Near Warri
,Shell,Oil Spill,Soldier LAGOS JULY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The dreaded militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, have once again blown up crude oil trunkline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria More...
Ijaw Leader Lambasts Okowa Over Neglect of Riverine Communities
Ifeanyi Okowa LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ijaw leader and activist, Apostle Clement Tonfawei, has lambasted the Governor of Delta State, Senate Ifeanyi Okowa for neglecting the reverine communities of Delta More...
Warri Oil Producing Community Complains of Neglect 21 Years After Ogbe-Ijoh, Aladja Crisis
LAGOS JULY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The people of oil producing Diebiri Kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State have cried out to the state government complaining of neglect twenty years after 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...