JTF Nabs 14 Suspected Crude Oil Thieves in Delta, Bayelsa
JTF patroling Niger Delta creeks LAGOS JUNE 24TH ( URHOBOTODAY) The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) code named Operation Pulo Shield has arrested of 13 persons in Delta and Rivers states over their alleged involvement More...
Corruption: Ex-Militants Call on EFCC to Investigate Amnesty Office
Kingsley Kuku LAGOS JUNE 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) No fewer than 100 former militants in the second phase of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have called on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate More...
June 12: Dokubo’s Group Shut Down Warri, Demands Arrest of Ex-Military Presidents
Comrade Rex Anighoro leading Alhaji Asari Dokubo Niger Delta People Salvation Front (NDPSF) in freedom walk in the oil city of Warri, Delta State in commemoration of June 12 LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) The Niger More...
Ijaw Youth Council has Lost Focus, Says Ex-Scribe
Mr. Paul Bebenimibo LAGOS JUNE 19TH (URHOBOTODAY) Former Secretary of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, Western Zone, Mr. Paul Bebenimibo, yesterday, said that the current leaders of the group had lost focus and advocated More...
Leave Contractors Alone, DESOPADEC Advises Oil Communities
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY) WARRI—COMMISSIONER representing Ijaw ethnic nationality on the board of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Mr. Kingsley Otuaro, has advised oil communities More...
Miracle: Warri Sailor Survives Two Days Under Sea In Shipwreck Air Bubble
Harrison Okene After two days trapped in freezing cold water and breathing from an air bubble in an upturned tugboat under the ocean, Harrison Okene was sure he was going to die. Then a torch light pierced the More...
June 12: Asari Dokubo Calls for Prosecution of Babangida,Others
Asari Dokubo LAGOS JUNE 13TH (URHOBOTODAY) For annulling June 12 presidential election in which the late MKO Abiola reportedly won, pro-democracy groups in Warri, Delta State, have called for the arrest and prosecution More...
Delta: World Athletes to Storm Warri for Relays/CAA Golden Prix
Barely a few weeks after hosting the maiden edition of the Africa Youth Athletics Championship, Warri will on Friday host the 2013 Warri /CAA Golden Grand Prix. The one-day competition is a premium event in the More...
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PIB: Group Threatens to Disrupt oil Exploration in N’Delta if…
Deziani Allison-Maduake, Minister of Petroleum Resources LAGOS JUNE 10TH (URHOBOTODAY). A group, the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS), on Sunday, issued a three-month ultimatum to More...
Jonathan not S-South Messiah – Activist…Says He’II not Get Full Support in 2015
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS JUNE 2015 (URHOBOTODAY) WARRI—A resource control campaigner in the Niger Delta, Alhaji Mumakai-Unagha, weekend, said President Goodluck Jonathan has the right to re-contest for More...
NANS Demands more Funding for Petroleum Training Institute Warri
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Federal Government to improve on its support for the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Warri, Delta State in order to encourage technological More...
Why I took over construction of federal roads in Delta – Uduaghan
Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan Asaba — GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Tuesday, said that he deliberately took over the construction of some federal roads that run through the state due their economic viability More...
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Fuel Scarcity Eminent as Warri Refinery Breaks Down
Minister of Petroleum Resoiurces, Mrs Deziani Allison Madueke The nation’s pioneer crude oil refining plant, Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company, WRPC, has once again been shut down. Findings by National More...
Delta CP Accuses Militias of Retaining Arms Used in Warri War
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ikechukwu Ayodele Aduba says guns used by ethnic militias during the Warri fratricidal war are still in the hands More...
Tragedy: Brother Stabs Sister to Death over Dish of Indomie in Warri
Tragedy struck in the heart of Warri Tuesday May 28 when a secondary school dropout by the name Israel stabbed his elder sister, Tejiri to death over the elder sister’s refusal to give him a cooked Indomie noodles. Report More...
Family of Kidnapped Pakistanis Threaten to Kill Nigerians in Pakistan if…
Inspector General of Police Mr Mohammed Abubakar WARRI — Families of the five Pakistani nationals on board an oil vessel, Mt Matrix 1, abducted last Saturday at 40 nautical miles off the Bayelsa coast have told More...
Pirates Kill One, Maim 10 in Delta State
Gunmen suspected to be sea bandits, have killed a 30-year-old boat driver, Godknows Wuruke, and injured over 10 persons in Delta State. Vanguard was informed that the bandits ambushed two passenger boats, moving More...
Contractors Gives Shell 2 Weeks Ultimatum to Relocate to Warri …Demand Salary Increase
By Ese Adagbra, Warri Contracting Firms working with Shell Development Company (SPDC) under the aegis of Right Way Surveillance Forum has given the oil giant two weeks ultimatum to relocate from Port-Harcourt to More...
Illegal Bunkering: Pregnant Woman, Nursing Mother, Tompolo’s Men Nabbed In Delta
As the battle to stop crude oil theft in the Niger Delta gathers momentum, soldiers attached to the 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Effurun, Delta State, over the weekend, arrested a pregnant woman, a nursing More...
Navy Intensifies Battle Against Illegal Bunkering In N’Delta, Deploys Gunboat, More Patrol Vessels
LAGOS 24 MAY (URHOBOTODAY) The Nigerian Navy has intensified the campaign against crude oil theft in the Niger Delta by deploying a gunboat and more patrol vessels to patrol the creeks and waterways of the oil-rich More...
Pandemonium as Police Nabs Warri Car Thieves in Benin
Inspector General of Police Mr Mohammed Abubakar Two suspected car snatchers were this morning arrested by heavily armed operatives of Nigeria’s Department of State Security Services (SSS), at the premises of More...
Delta: Part of Warri Flooded as Water Reservoir Burst Again
LAGOS MAY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY) The Warri-Effurun Water Supply Scheme, a project meant to provide potable water for residents of Warri and Effurun, has broken down again, causing flooding in parts of Warri township. Areas More...
Delta Police Smashes Five-Man Kidnap Gang in Warri …Confess to Kidnap of Owner of Daddy Bakery
Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba WARRI 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)Operatives of the Delta State Special Security Patrol code-named Dragon 30, have smashed a five-man gang of armed robbers/kidnappers More...
Three Human Traffickers Sentence to 5yrs Each in Warri
A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State on Friday May 17 sentenced three persons, Alex Ehidiamen, Kingsley Uzoma and Ehijoba Favour to five years imprisonment each for deceitfully inducing their victims More...
Uduaghan to Construct Two Flyover Bridges in Asaba, Effurun
Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan The Delta State Government has approved the construction of two fly-overs in Asaba, the state capital and Effurun in the Nigerian oil-rich city of Warri, to ease traffic More...