Urhobo Progress Union(UPU)

Urhobo Traditional Leaders Visit Okuama, Call on FG to Assist Delta State to Re-build the Community, Vow to Sustain Age-long Brotherly Ties With Ijaws

July 5, 2024 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Ukoko “ R Ivie R’ Urhobo(Council of Urhobo Traditional Rulers) and Urhobo Progress Union(UPU) Executives yesterday(4/6/2024) visited the devastated Okuama-Ewu and Internally displaced persons(IDP) camp with huge relief materials promising to facilitate their early return and rebuilding of their ancestral homes They also vowed to ensure the sustenance of the age-long brotherly relationship between […]

Okuama: Urhobo Monarchs, UPU Call for More Relief Materials, Pledge Harmonious Relationship Between Urhobo, Ijaw nation

June 19, 2024June 19, 2024 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Ukoko r’ Ivie r’ Urhobo(Council of Urhobo Traditional Rulers) and Urhobo Progress Union(UPU) have called for more food and relief materials for the displaced people of Okuama and the rebuilding of the community A communique issued after a joint EXCO meeting yesterday(18/06/2024) at the Ovie of Uvwie palace, Effurun, signed by the Chairman, Ukoko […]

OKUAMA BLOODBATH: Urhobo Monarchs, UPU(Worldwide) Call for a Truth Commission

March 20, 2024 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

The Ukoko R’Ivie R’Urhobo(Council of Urhobo Traditional Rulers) and Urhobo Progress Union(UPU) worldwide have called on the Delta State government to set up an Independent Truth Commission to investigate the immediate and remote causes of the Okuama/Okoloba crisis and others on the Forcados Rivers with a view for a permanent solution This is one of […]

ARE URHOBO ANCESTORS IN TEARS? By David Okiemute

June 4, 2018June 4, 2018 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

As an Urhobo, l have never in the entire 60 years that almighty God has granted me circumstances of life than the content of what was revealed in the Vanguard Newspaper of Wednesday the 30th of May, an authoritative article written by one Dr. Urhoboyovwe Ufuoma, God bless him and may his pen of truth […]

GOODNIGHT MAJOR GENERAL PATRICK AZIZA (1947-2014)

August 16, 2014 Leave a Comment

Major-General (retired) Patrick Aziza was born in Okpe local Government Area in Delta State on 23 December 1947. He was raised in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. He went to Ibadan for his secondary education before joining the army and participating in the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970). Aziza then attended the Nigeria Defence Academy, Kaduna, graduating in […]