LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The United Kingdom government has warned its citizens in Nigeria against visiting Delta State and eleven other states in Nigeria over possible terror attacks. The advisory from the UK through its Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) followed concerns on the possibility of terrorists carrying out attacks in Nigeria. In a statement published…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Thursday, signed the State Anti-open grazing bill 2021 into law, urging the Federal Government to assist interested herdsmen to establish ranches across the country. Assenting to the bill christened “Delta State Livestock, Breeding, Rearing and Marketing Regulation Bill” and a second bill, Delta State Urban and Regional Planning Bill 2020, which were…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of 19 students of Naval College of Engineering, Sapele, Delta State by gunmen. The students who were traveling in two vehicles, an 18-seater bus and a Toyota Sienna bus, on Monday were reportedly traveling from Kaduna State to Sapele. They were however ambushed and…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 governorship election in Delta State, a pan-Delta socio-political group, Delta Icons (DI), has been inaugurated to foster unity, equity and accommodation of the interests of all Deltans in the choice of who succeeds Governor Ifeanyi Okowa. The group, whose primary interest is to promote inclusive governance and development…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Management of Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited (HEOSL), operator of OML30, said it has done the needful and taken all necessary steps in line with best environmental practices to curtail the oil spill in Erhioke community. In a statement on Thursday, titled ”Re: Delta communities threaten to shut down oil firm…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Divergent views have continued to trail the Federal Government’s desire to appropriate the £4.2m recovered from Britain that former Governor James Onanefe Ibori and his associates looted. Indeed, groups and individuals are rising in support of repatriating the money to Delta State. Already, a human rights activist and lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two members of a five-man gang of highway robbers were in the early hours of Saturday, February 27, 2021, smashed by police detectives attached to the Ogun State Command. The gang had barely stationed at the Sagamu Interchange on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, waiting to strike, when a police patrol team from Sagamu…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has condoled with the Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, who lost his father, Chief Arthur Okorie Uzoma Okowa, on the early hours of Thursday, January 28, 2021. In a Condolence Message from his Media Office, Obi…