Prisons Service Dismisses Report Of Releasing Of Jailed Ese Oruru’s Abductor
LAGOS JULY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Bayelsa State Command of the Nigeria Correctional Services has denied reports that Yunusa Dahiru, who was sentenced to 26 years for abducting Ese Oruru, has been released from More...
Court Sentences Ese Oruru’s Abductor , Yinusa Dahiru To 26 Years Imprisonment
Yinus and Ese Oruru By Okioma Amos LAGOS MAY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has delivered the long-awaited judgement on Ese Oruru, a teenager reportedly abducted, taken More...
Why Bayelsa UPU President Embark On Tour Of Urhobo Clans
By Amos Okioma LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The President of Urhobo Progress Union, ( UPU ) Worldwide, Bayelsa state Chapter, Deacon Kingsley Eduvie Akpaka and the Okobaro I of Urhobo in Bayelsa state HRH More...
Non-Payment Of Salaries: Teachers Strike Paralyses Academic Activities In Bayelsa
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Academic activities were paralysed in public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa following strike by the state chapter More...
Newly Elected Arewa Leader In Bayelsa Vows To Create Harmonious Relationship
Newly elected Chairman of Arewa Community, Bayelsa State Chapter Alhaji Abubakar Adam a.k.a Balis By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (UROBOTODAY)-Newly elected Chairman of Arewa Community, Bayelsa State Chapter More...
Three Ughelli Women Arrested For Selling Donkey and Vulture Meat In Bayelsa
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Three women from Ughelli, Delta state were apprehended in Yenagoa, by members of the Bayelsa state Vigilante Network led by Godwin Avidi for selling donkey and vulture as meat More...
Journalists Protest ‘Brutal’ Assassination of Colleague In Bayelsa
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Journalists at Radio Bayelsa on Tuesday marched round Yenagoa to protest against the killing of their colleague, Famous Giobaro, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. The protesters, More...
Ijaw Youths Condemn Gruesome Murder Of Renowned Journalist, Famous Giobaro
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Ijaw Youth Council worldwide, (IYC), apex youth body of all Ijaw youths worldwide has condemned in its entirety the gruesome murder of renowned Bayelsa radio journalist and member More...
Black Easter: Unknown Gunmen Kill Bayelsa Journalist In His Home
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was a bleak and black Easter for the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Bayelsa State as one of its members, Mr Famous Giobaro of Radio Bayelsa, was shot dead in the early hours More...
Easter Disaster: Twin Fire Incidents Gut Twelve Houses in Bayelsa State
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson By Amos Okioma LAGOS APRIL 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-No fewer than two twelve houses were razed and property worth millions of Naira destroyed in separate fire incidents in Yenagoa, More...
Bayelsa: Electricity Distribution Company Blames Consumers Over Low Power Outage
By Amos Okioma LAGOS APRIL 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) has blamed customers over low power outage in Bayelsa state. The Head, Customers Services, Dr. Godwin Orovwiroro More...
Bayelsa: Int’l Wrestlers Bill To Perform At Dickson’s Wrestling Classics
Seriake Dickson By Amos Okioma LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Notable international and national wrestlers are expected to perform at the four day international tournament taking place in Bayelsa state ‘ The More...
Bayelsa Women Journalists Say ‘No’ To Gender Discrimination, Girl Child Violation
By Aherhoke Okioma,Yenagoa LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-As Nigerians join the rest of the world to celebrate international women’s day , the Nigerian Association of Women Journalist, NAWOJ, has called on More...
Amnesty: Aggrieved Ex- Niger Delta Militants Call For the Sack Of Gen Boroh
Gen Paul Boroh By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-Sequel to the refusal to include them in the federal government amnesty programme, Third Phase Leader of the arms struggle, Comrade Seiyefa More...
Protesting Workers Shut Down Radio Bayelsa Over Excesses of General Manager
Governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)- Labour unions in the Bayelsa State Broadcasting Corporation under the aegis of Nigeria Union of Journalists More...
Ijaw Community Raises Alarm Over Poisonous Air Pollution from Shell Gas Facility
By Amos Okioma LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Residents and indigenes of Tombia Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have raised the alarm over suspected poisonous air pollution allegedly emanating More...
Bayelsa: Abducted 72 Years Retired Principal Died in Kidnappers’ Den
y By Amos Okioma LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The abducted 72 years old retired principal, Chief Sunday Festus died in the hands of his abductors at the early hours of yesterday, though his abductors had More...
Buhari Urges Niger Delta Indigenes Embrace Peace and focus on Agriculture
Buhari Amos Okioma, Yenagoa LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the people of the Niger Delta to embrace peace and focus on agriculture for sustainable economic development More...
Patients Groan as Doctors Strike Grounds Federal Medical Centre Yenagoa
By Amos Okioma. LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)- The ongoing strike by resident doctors at the Federal Medical Centre Yenagoa has crippled the hospital as other unions threaten to join the strike even as patients More...
Bayelsa: Arrested Publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper still in DSS Detention 3 months after
By Amos Odeh LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-The Publisher of Weekly Source newspaper, Chief Jones Abiri is still in Department of State Security (DSS) detention in Abuja after three months of his arrest from More...
Ese Oruru’s Parents Appeal to Okowa, Others for Help, Say Their Daughter is Wasting Away
Ese Oruru and her baby still in Police custody By Amos Okioma LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)- Parents of 14 year old minor, Ese Oruru abducted in Bayelsa in August 2015 and taking to Kano where she was allegedly More...
Urhobo Progress Union Inaugurates New Executive Members in Bayelsa State
By Amos Okioma LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Urhobos resident in Bayelsa State under the aegis of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has sworn in new executive members to run their affairs for the next three More...
Ese Oruru’s Parents Raise Alarm over Attempt to Steal Her Three Months Old Baby
Ese Oruru LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The parents of Ese Oruru, the 14-year-old girl who was abducted and impregnated by one Yunusa Dahiru, who took her to Kano, have alleged that there were plans to steal More...
Urhobos In Bayelsa Commend Role of Ijaw Youths in Securing Ese Oruru’s Release
Ese Oruru LAGOS APRIL 25Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU) on Sunday applauded the commitment of Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) in advocating for the freedom of Ese Oruru. Oruru, a minor, was allegedly abducted by Mr Yunusa More...
Delta State Govt Promises to Fully Participate in Rehabilitation of Ese Oruru
Ese Oruru LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-On Wednesday, the Delta State government promised to fully participate in the rehabilitation process for 14-year-old abductee Ese Oruru and to return her to school after More...