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UPDATE: Bayelsa State Governorship declared Inconclusive

Following the cancellation of elections in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Bayelsa State Governorship which took place on Saturday, December 5 2015, inconclusive. INEC reps said “glaring cases of electoral malpractices characterized by ballot snatching and thuggery.” (more…)

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CAF U-23: Nigerian Fans Thrown Out Of Stadium For Displaying Biafra Flags

   A number of Nigerian football fans were reportedly evicted for displaying the Biafran flag at the 2015 U-23 African Cup of Nations holding in Senegal. According to reports, the fans had displayed the flag at the Leopold Sedar Senghor stadium in Dakar, the country’s capital, during the football match between Nigeria and Algeria. The Senegalese authorities, however, took the display of the flags as a “militant act. and the Vice President of the Senegalese Football Federation, FSF, Amadou Kane, is said to have authoritatively ordered that the flags and all their banners

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Sowore’s (sahara reporters) jail term will be longer than that of a monkey in the zoo – Dino Melaye

Is it only me that thinks that the Anti-Social media bill is targeted to bring down Sahara reporters, which is digitally important! All this noise just makes them more popular and talked about and the fact that the headquarters is at New York! Few days after Sahara Reporters alleged that Senator Dino Melaye operates an account in America, he has come out to deny the claims and threatened the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowere, saying his jail term will be longer than that of a monkey in the zoo. See more tweets after the cut... See more tweets after t