NIMASA Floating Dockyard’ll Open Opportunities For West Africa Maritime Industry-Yerima
Senator Sanni Yerima LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Marine Transport, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima has said that the floating dockyard being built by the Nigeria Maritime More...
Oil and Gas Expo Holds in Abuja
Director of Event, WAECON, Dr Kune LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1TH (URHOBOTODAY)-All is now set. This year’s U & D Oil and Gas Expo 2016 comes with the theme “Oil and gas solution and the Nigerian Content Advancement”. More...
Nigerian Football Coach Arrested In Philippines with N6m Hard Drugs
Ejiye Okoye LAGOS JULY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-—A suspected member of a West African drug syndicate was caught with P1-million worth of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) on Tuesday night and has been detained. The More...
Dasuki Drags FG to ECOWAS Court, Demands N500m Damages
Dasuki LAGOS 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Arising from his continued detention by the Department of State Security, DSS, erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd), has dragged the Federal More...
Boko Haram Over Takes ISIS as World’s Deadliest Terror Organisation
Abubakar Shekau, Leader of Boko Haram LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram has overtaken Isis as the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation, according to a new report. The Nigerian-based terror group, More...
FRSC to Work for the Implementation of Axle Load Control in ECOWAS
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi who is also the Chairman of the National Committee on the implementation of the ECOWAS policy on axle load More...
Could Eko Atlantic City Be West African Dubai?
A designer view of Eko Atlantic, Central Marina By Gbenga Oduntan LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The government of the state of Lagos — Nigeria’s former capital has proudly proclaimed it is building More...
Mali to Install First Large Scale Solar Energy Power Plant in West Africa
LAGOS JULY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY) — An historic agreement to Build-Own-and Operate West Africa’s first utility-scale solar power plant was signed today by Norwegian company Scatec Solar and its partners, More...
Nigeria Drafts in Foreign Mercenaries to Take on Boko Haram
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria has brought in hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and the former Soviet Union to give its offensive against Boko Haram a shot in the arm before a March 28 election, More...
Is Boko Haram Invoking Kanem Bornu Legacy?
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Lagos (AFP) – Long before Boko Haram’s uprising plunged the region into crisis, the area below Lake Chad was part of a powerful Islamic empire, known for religious More...
Boko Haram Fighters in Disarray as Coalition Forces Bombard Sambisa Forest
Coalition troops storming Sambisa forest LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Boko Haram fighters are disorganized as soldiers from Nigeria, Chad, Niger Republic and Camer¬oon the West African coalition forces More...
CAF Names Another Host of 2015 AFCON
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) on Friday announced Equatorial Guinea as the host of 2015 Cup of Nations. CAF had to take decision Friday since the deadline given to More...
Delta State: Chevron Vessel Capsize in Escravos
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture, has confirmed that Jascon #4 vessel belonging to its contractor, West African Ventures Limited, has capsized and sank in the early hours More...