Urhobo interest is protected if the right environment is created to enable companies in the oil and gas sector bring back their offices to Urhoboland and its environs

The Urhobo Nation must be thoroughly vigilant to do away with pretentious and egocentric politicians with history of betrayal of Urhobo national interests

THE Urhobo in Lagos have identified unity as the necessary ingredient for the growth and development of Urhobo land. At a gathering of prominent Urhobo sons and daughters resident in Lagos, yesteray, the meeting rose with a resolve to ensure that the Urhobo Nation speaks with one voice.

Isio R’Urhobo Ladies’ Social Club, an all-ladies Urhobo socio-cultural group based in Lagos, is set to promote the culture of the Urhobo of Delta State.

The Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSTCOM, Urhobo chapter, Delta State, has decried not having a representative in the membership of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF/ dialogue team, led by Chief Edwin Clark, presently negotiating with the Federal Government.

Urhobo youths under the umbrella body of Urhobo Youth Council has inaugurated   Comrade Festus Otesiri Igherebuo, the former youth president of Okere Urhobo community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State as their new worldwide president in Okuokoko, Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State.

The Urhobo nation is with doubt the fifth largest ethnic nationality in the country and the second largest after the Ijaw in the so-categorized minority ethnic groups in the country. The Urhobo are also the largest ethnic group in Delta State where they constitute about 55% of the population of the state.

UDU— THE Urhobo Youth Leaders Association, UYLA, in Delta State, yesterday, distanced itself from the quit notice issued northerners and Yoruba, last Thursday, to vacate the Niger Delta before October 1, saying the ‘so-called’ agitators, who issued the illegal notice under the aegis of Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators, CNDA, were miscreants.

Leader of the Urhobo Ethnic Nationality and President-General of Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Worldwide, led by Olorogun Moses Taiga, has charged Nigerian youths to rise up to the challenge of nation-building and resist being used for any purpose that is detrimental to national interest.

The Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, has elected an indigene of Oghara Community, Comrade Nicholas Omoko as President of its youth wing, worldwide to pilot the affairs of the body next next three years.

THE youth wing of the social-cultural and political pressure group, Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, has called on the Federal Government to ignore calls by “some selfish and mischief-makers” for the sack of the Executive Director of Project, EDP, of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Engr. Sam Adjogbe, describing same as ill-informed, unfortunate and desperate.

The Chief Joe Omene leadership of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, the Urhobo apex ruling socio-cultural body, at home and in diaspora, has said that it remains the authentic leader of the body and not Chief Moses Taiga, who is being erroneously addressed as President-General of UPU worldwide.

Business mogul, Olorogun Moses Taiga, is the President General of Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) Worldwide, unarguably, the umbrella socio-culturalorganisation for all Urhobo groups.

The President of Urhobo Progress Union worldwide, Olorogun Moses Taiga, has called for peace between Aladja, an Urhobo town in Udu Local Governmemnt Area and Ogbe-Ijoh, an Ijaw town in Warri South-West Local Government Area, both in Delta State.

President-General of Urhobo Progress Union Worldwide, Olorogun Moses Taiga, has urged politicians in Urhobo land to eschew violence, warning that no Urhobo blood should be shed on account of politics.