Hungry Refugees in IDP’s Camp Accuse Nigerian Officials of Stealing Their Food
Starving refugees in IDP camp in Borno State LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigerian officials have been accused of stealing food from desperate people who are living in camps after fleeing the terrorist group More...
US Declares Delta, Nineteen Other States as ‘No Go Area’ for Her Citizen
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United States Government has listed Delta State among other nineteen states in Nigeria’s 36 states as unsafe and asked its citizens living in the country to stay away from More...
Pilot Dies as Nigerian Air Force Fighter Jet Crashes in Adamawa
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Nigerian Air Force (NAF801) F7-Ni fighter jet returning to the base from an interdicted mission crashed due to bad weather, an official statement said Saturday night. A statement More...
Nigerian Military’s Victory Claim over Boko Haram is Fraudulent-US Diplomat
John Campbell Former US Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has said that talks of victories by Nigerian troops against Boko Haram, must be taken with caution, even skepticism, especially with the difficulty in More...
Security: US,UK,Canada Warn Citizens to Stay Clear of Twenty Two States in Nigeria
David Cameon LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-In spite of the weakening of Boko Haram’s capacity to carry out large-scale attacks against civilians and soldiers by Nigerian troops in the North-East, the United More...
UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon to Visit Nigeria on Sunday
UN Secreatry-General,Ban Ki-Moon expected in Nigeria on Sunday LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria will play host to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who will be in the country from tomorrow, More...
Borno, Yobe Governors Raise Alarm, Says Boko Haram is in Possession of Five Local Govt Areas
LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Boko Haram Islamists are still holding on to some territories in Nigeria’s troubled northeast, state governors from the region said on Thursday, after the military claimed More...
MASSOB Insists Jega Must Go, Threatens to Resist Election in the South
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has demanded the immediate removal of Chairman the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Attahiru More...
Nigerian Army Re-Captures More Communities from Boko Haram
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian military on Friday said it has recaptured two more communities from Boko Haram militants in the North Eastern part of Nigeria after intense fighting. The Defence Headquarters More...
NYSC Suspends Orientation Programmes in Six States Over Ebola
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Thursday announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programmes of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation Course in six states More...
Youth Corpers Barred from Trouble Adamawa,Borno, Yobo States
LAGOS MAY 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-THE Director- General, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier- General Johnson Olawumi, disclosed, yesterday, that the agency had put a stop to sending graduates to Adamawa, More...
FG is Committing Genocide in Northern Nigeria- Nyako Alerts Northern Governors
Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako has written a memo to the Northern Governors Forum titled, “On On-Going Full-Fledged Genocide in ‘Northern Nigeria’. In the memo More...
Revisiting Urhobo Stand on National Conference
By Dr Ighorodje The UPU memorandum to the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference is profoundly thought provoking and illuminating. At page two, paragraph three, it stated: “Some states with population More...
Emir of Yobe Dies in Auto Crash
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (URHOBOTODAY0-The Emir of Ngelzarma in Fune Local Government of Yobe State, Alhaji Mahammadu Mai Yeri Ibn Isa II is dead. The First Class Emir was reported to have died in a ghastly car crash in More...
Uduaghan Preaches Unity, Peaceful Co-Existence and Tolerance on Independence Day
Dr Emmanuel Udughan LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has charged Nigerians to rekindle the bond of unity, peaceful co-existence and tolerance for one another as Nigeria More...
Retire or We’ll Retire You, Army Tells Al-Mustapha
Al-Mustapha LAGOS JULY 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-There are strong indications that the Nigeria Army headquarters is considering retiring Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, General More...
Nigeria’ll Not Divide-Jonathan…Assures Nigerians, Foreigners of Security
President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS JULY 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated that the country will remain one indivisible nation no matter the challenges of nation building, saying that terrorism More...
Boko Haram: Shekau’s Wife, His three Children, Others Released
Boko Haram Leader Shekau LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY) The Joint Task (JTF) has released Hassana Yakubu, wife of the wanted leader of the Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau, sources close to the federal government’s Dialogue More...
US Declares Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau Wanted…Places $7m Ransom
Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau The US authorities have declared Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Jama’atu Ahl as-Sunnah il-Da’awati wal-Jihad, better known as Boko Haram, a wanted man. And they are placing More...
Ijaw Group Demands Declaration of State of Emergency in Northern States
President Ijaw Media Forum, Mr Asu Beks The Ijaw Media Forum has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in Borno, Bauchi and Yobe States as a way of curbing the incessant killings More...