Gunmen fire on passenger airliner at Pakistani Peshawar airport

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Gunmen fired on a Pakistan International Airlines plane as it landed in the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday night, killing a woman on board and injuring three crew members in the third incident at a Pakistani airport this month.

The plane was carrying 178 passengers travelling from Saudi Arabia when it came under attack, policeman Asghar Khan said at the airport.

Beirut suicide bomber kills Lebanese security officer late on Tuesday

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An overnight suicide blast in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah's main bastion, killed a security officer, who had tried to stop the bomber, the General Security agency said Tuesday. No one has claimed the attack, but an audio recording posted on YouTube by a Sunni militant group said there would be more "strikes" if the Shiite movement does not pull out of Syria.

The explosion happened around midnight (21:00 GMT Monday) near an army checkpoint and cafe where football fans were watching a World Cup match.
An army statement said a suicide attacker driving a white Mercedes "blew himself up at an army checkpoint at the Tayuneh roundabout (in southern Beirut), wounding several civilians."

Putin and OSCE Chairperson discuss situation in Ukraine on Tuesday

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"Now we need to discuss exactly how we can help," said Didier Burkhalter, expressing satisfaction that he and Putin were able to arrange a meeting quickly. "Our direct contact and dialogue is very important," said the Chairman of the OSCE. The meeting of the two presidents, closing Putin’s official visit to Austria, lasted 50 minutes instead of the scheduled half an hour

OSCE Chairperson-in-office Didier Burkhalter considers it necessary to find at least a part of solutions   on the situation in Ukraine in the next several days, repors RIA Novosti.

Reasons P()rnography Is Harmful And You Should Beware

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Today’s twenty-somethings have been exposed to more pornography, and research is showing that they’ve become more accepting of it.
I heard from a young woman the other day who didn’t get why I was anti-p()rn. “It’s a great way for my fiancé, to meet his needs when I’m not in the mood. I don’t want him to keep bugging me if I’m not into it that night. And he shouldn’t just have to ‘deal’ with frustration, either.”

Kalu Uche’s Wife's father Found Dead In Delta Hotel Room (PICTURED)

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Ex-beauty queen, Stephanie Oforka-Uche has lost her lecturer father to the cold hands of death.  Professor N.C Oforka, who taught at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Port Harcourt, was found dead in a hotel room in Delta.Continue..

Young man pushed from a motorcycle by a Police man (Photo)

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The Guy pictured above named Sharafa, who works in a carwash was allegedly pushed from the motorcycle facing AP station Gberigbe along Ikorodu General Hospital on June 22nd by a police attached at the Igbogbo Divisional HQ along Igbogbo Road Barracks. The guy is now receiving treatment at another friend's house.

The DPO at the Igbogbo police station was contacted in regards to the incident but nothing has been done about any of it yet though a police source said the guy plied on restricted road.

Plane owned by US company, Global Aviation, flying from Nigeria to Gabon Missing

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A 4-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has gone missing. The plane, owned by US company, Global Aviation, took off from Kano Airport around 6pm yesterday Monday June 23rd and was billed to make a stop over at Doula Cameroon before continuing to Gabon to arrive at 11pm but it never arrived at Doula, Cameroonian Aviation authorities have said. Only an American pilot was on-board.

My Father or Your Father ? Edo Lawmakers Engage In Free For All Fight (Video)

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Kerry urges Kurds to save Iraq from collapse

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John Kerry arrived in Iraq's Kurdish region Tuesday in a US diplomatic drive aimed at preventing the country from splitting apart in the face of Sunni militants pushing towards Baghdad. Iraq's security forces have managed to retake a crucial border crossing along the frontier with Syria, but were struggling to contain advances by insurgents, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who have taken swathes of five provinces north and west of the capital.

More than 1,000 killed in Iraq this month - UN

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At least 1,075 people have been killed amid the current wave of violence in Iraq in June, the UN human rights office reports.

Most of the dead were civilians, said Rupert Colville, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He added that the tally of dead "should be viewed very much as a minimum."

It includes alleged executions of civilians and police, as well as non-fighting soldiers.

Ukrainian army carries out artillery strikes against self-defense in Slavyansk despite ceasefire

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Ukrainian government forces continue to carry out artillery strikes against the militia's strongholds in defiance of the declared ceasefire, the defense minister of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic", Igor Strelkov, has said.

"After 6:00 pm yesterday, artillery fire exchanges and local gun battles continued in the Semyonovka area. The adversary opened mortar fire on the village and continued to "hunt" passing cars by firing at them from a tank stationed at their checkpoint near the village of Vostochny," Strelkov was quoted as saying by Donbass people's governor Pavel Gubarev on his Facebook account, Interfax reports.

Fayose still has a case to answer —EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has described media reports that it had dropped corruption case against the governor-elect of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, as untrue.  The agency’s Head of Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, told our correspondent on Monday that the recent election of Fayose had not affected the ongoing trial of the governor-elect at the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti, for alleged corruption.

Uwujaren said that the case would come up for hearing on July 15, 2014, adding that the immunity clause in the Constitution only applied to the President, the Vice President, sitting governors and their deputies, and not governors- elect.

Drama as soldiers stop, search Tambuwal’s car

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Culled from Punch Nigeria

A mild drama ensued in Kaduna on Monday after soldiers stopped the motorcade of the Speaker of the House of Representatives,   Aminu Tambuwal, and searched his official car.

Findings showed that Tambuwal, who was in the flagged car on his way to the venue of an international conference on security, was asked to wind down his window glass to the surprise of other VIPs, who drove past the same route.

This made the security details attached to Tambuwal to   protest but   the soldiers stood their ground. Some of the soldiers were said to have insisted that they were acting on “orders from above.”

Actress Uche Nnanna's Dad is Dead.

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 Nollywood actress,Uche Nnanna has just lost her father,Chief Vincent Okoroafor Nnanna, according to a  family source, he died yesterday(June 22nd) at age 80. He has been ill for a while now that's the reason he couldn't attend Uche and her hubby Richard's wedding ceremony. May Eledumare grant them the fortitude to bear the loss..
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#2 of 5 Innovations you will not Believe are coming out of Africa, Produced by Africans.

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Mellowcabs are high-tech electric pedicabs manufactured from recycled materials. These vehicles primarily provide first and last mile public transport in urban areas, thereby filling the gap for commuters who need micro transport within a 3 km radius.
Mellowcab was developed in South African by South African serial entrepreneur Neil du Preez.

 

Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera journalists to 7 years imprisonment

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Three Al-Jazeera journalists, Peter Greste (correspondent, Australian), bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy (Canadian/Egyptian) have been sentenced to 7 years in prison each over allegations of false reporting and association with the now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. While a 3rd journalist, Baher Mohamed (producer) was given 10 years for same charges and also for being in possession of ammunition.

The three journalists were arrested in December 2013 after security forces raided their work suite office in Cairo on charges of 'spreading false news' and holding meetings with Muslim Brotherhood.

The journalists had reported on how Egyptian security agencies killed hundreds of peaceful protesters in sit-ins in Cairo. This was when Egyptians took to the streets to protest the coup by the army that removed former Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in July 2013 and demanding for his reinstatement. 

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Suicide bomber kills 3 soldiers in Borno, Boko Haram kills 40 in new attack

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Three soldiers were reportedly killed yesterday June 22nd after a suicide bomber suspected to be from the Boko Haram sect attacked a military post near a Secondary school in Gwoza, Borno state.

 

Vanguard reports the suicide bomber drove through Wala and Warabe villages before addressing the military post where in fact the bomb detonated and a loud sound immediately followed, with the car the suicide bomber rode in and other things in the attack scene destroyed.

 

Among the residents of the location, Mallam Usman Yaro who spoke with Vanguard said residents of the location were still in bed when the bomb detonated. 

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Nigeria security forces arrest suspected Kano bomber.

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 Nigeria security forces have arrested a suspect in charge of the bomb blast that happened this afternoon at the School of Hygiene, BUK Road in Kano at the least eight people lost their lives with 12 others sustaining various levels of injury.

Confirming the arrest, Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adenrele Shinaba said investigations begins immediately.

"The suspect is in our custody, and the vehicle he used for the operation has also been towed to the police headquarters. We will get to know the motive behind the attack, and who sent him on this deadly errand." he said

Putin, Obama discuss implementation of Poroshenko's peace plan by phone

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Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed proposals for peace in Ukraine with US President Barack Obama on Monday, the Kremlin said in a statement, after Ukraine's leader announced a ceasefire in military operations in the east, informing Reuters. US President urged Putin to support peace in Ukraine and said Moscow would face further "costs" if it did not take steps to reduce tensions in the country, the White House said.

"They discussed ... the implementation of the peace plan proposed by the President Petr Poroshenko," the Kremlin said. "Putin stressed that priority must be given to halting military operations and to the start of direct negotiations between the opposing sides."

Anti-gov't protest under way in Donetsk during peace talks

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An anti-government demonstration started outside the regional administration headquarters in Donetsk on Monday evening even as representatives of the Ukrainian government, eastern Ukrainian militias, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were holding peace talks inside the building.

The demonstrators were holding banners reading "Donbass is Russia and "Get fascism out of Donbass."

Pensioners and women were joining in the demonstration, Interfax reports

Kiev court issues arrest warrants for leaders of Donetsk, Lugansk People’s Republics

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Kiev's Shevchenkivsky District Court has issued arrest warrants for 11 leaders of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Lugansk People's Republic" at the request of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, the office said on Monday.

EU overtakes US as main food exporter

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The EU beat out the United States to become the world's top exporter of agricultural and food products last year, AFP cites a European Commission report on the global farming market as saying Monday.

Fuelled by record sales to China and other emerging markets, in 2013 the 28 countries of the European Union sold 120 billion euros ($163 billion) in agri-food products, up 5.8 percent and with cereals alone accounting for over two thirds of the jump.

A market of 500 million people, the EU remained the world's biggest importer of farming and food products, though the level was mostly unchanged from 2012 at 101.5 billion euros.

A quarter of Chinese imports came from the United States, but the EU saw its share rise to 9.1 percent in 2013, mainly on sales of malt extract for beer brewing, and pork.

Referee to be Petitioned for Celebrating Nigeria's Win Over Bosnia

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Over 20,000 people have signed an on line petition requesting the removal of  Peter O'Leary from the World Cup after a photo of him celebrating with Nigeria's goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama made its way online.
 New Zealand referee drew widespread criticism after wrongly disallowing an Edin Dzeko strike after 21 minutes.
Emmanuel Emenike also appeared to “clip the heels” of Emir Spahic which went unnoticed by the referee.
Consequently of these, a Bosnian fan has sent the petition to FIFA, asking for O'Leary's removal.

Dzeko who spoke to us describes the referee as “shameful”.
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Missouri church lures young parish with rifles

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Nowadays, the church has to be creative to bring more people in. In a bid to “get more people to follow Jesus,” a Joplin, Missouri, church held a raffle giving away two Black Rain AR15 assault rifles as a prize.

On Father’s Day, men were given an opportunity to put their names in a hat to win one of two AR-15 rifles. Each father was eligible to submit a ticket for himself and a ticket for each of his children he brought to church with him. An additional ticket was given if a man brought his own dad.

US hypocritical and extortive towards its citizens living abroad – immigration expert

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More expatriate Americans are parting with their US citizenship than ever. Overseas US offices reported 1,000 US citizens and green-card holders had renounced their allegiance in just the first three months of the year. The figure puts 2014 on track to top last year's total of almost three thousand renunciations, which was already a record high since the government began disclosing such data.

The figures are somewhat disturbing, as it is more than three times higher then the number in 2012, and greater than the combined totals for 2011 and 2012, according to the US Treasury Department.

Gunmen Attack Convoy Of Edo Deputy Speaker, Others.

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The Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Ibea, along with the Minority Leader, Emmanuel Okoduwa, and a member of house, Patrick Iluobe. were reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday, 22 June, 2014.
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Gunmen Attack Convoy Of Edo Deputy Speaker, Others.

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The Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Festus Ibea, along with the Minority Leader, Emmanuel Okoduwa, and a member of house, Patrick Iluobe. were reportedly attacked by unknown gunmen on Sunday, 22 June, 2014.
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Just In: Bomb Blast in Kano This Afternoon Leaves Many Dead

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Based on a breaking information report, a blast gone off this afternoon around 2pm at the School of health Technology found along Gida Murtala–W UK Rd in Kano state eliminating scores of people. More details later... 

Health Insurance Convention To Hold Soon

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As part of efforts to reduce the level of ignorance on insurance by celebrities which has led to the untimely and unavoidable deaths of several prominent entertainers in the music and movie industries, the first Nigerian Entertainment Industry Health Insurance Convention is set to hold soon.
The convention will serve as a forum to introduce health insurance policies and its benefits to the Nigerian entertainment industry and the society at large.

Accordingly, the convention is designed as a customised learning and education platform for the practitioners of the entertainment industry.

13-Yr-Old Nigerian Boy Dies After Trying To Save A Drowning Girl

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13 year old Ricky Osagie (pictured above, his dad right) from Warrenstown died on Saturday June 21st following a brave attempt to try to save a girl who had got into trouble swimming in a man-made pond at Waterville Hall residential complex in Blanchardstown, Dublin on Friday June 20th.

According to Irish Mirror, a friend of Ricky’s, a teenage girl got into the water and was almost drowning when Ricky and another female friend jumped into the pond to try to help her. The other teen girl who jumped in to help also now had difficulties in the pond, and it was up to Ricky to save both girls. Which he did. Paramedics were called and all three teens were taken to the hospital. The two girls survived, but Ricky died the next day.

World Bank okays $495.3m for northern farmers

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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Friday approved a $495.3m International Development Association credit to improve farmers’ access to irrigation and drainage services in the North.

A statement issued by the bank on Friday said the money would strengthen institutional arrangements for integrated water resources management and improve delivery of agricultural services in selected, large-scale public schemes in northern Nigeria.

“The Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria project will improve existing irrigation on 27,000 hectares, irrigate an additional 23,000 hectares, and benefit more than 140,000 farmers while mobilising private sector investment.

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Post Ekiti state election: Ayo Fayose explains Why he won

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Some of you think he won simply because he gave out bags of rice.. No o! It was a free and fair election and even the incumbent governor Kayode Fayemi called Fayose to concede defeat and congratulate him. In a sit down with some journalists yesterday in Ekiti, the Ekiti state governor-elect tells how he managed to defeat a sitting governor

"It is the Lord’s doing. I want to recall that my removal in 2006 remains a mystery to the common man on the streets but they never left me for a day, they believed in me. I want to equally let you know that I was left with the people without money, eight years in the wilderness. My charge to every politician is to target the poor people. They will not come and ask you for contracts, all they want is to have their lives improved, to which they believe I have an answer.

20yr old Pakistani woman gang molested, killed and hanged from a tree

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A 20 year old Pakistani lady identified as Muzammil Bibi was found strangled and hung on a tree after resisting rape attempts by three men. Police in Pakistan say the young lady was accosted by the men in a field at the densely populated Punjab province and when she tried to resist being molested, they beat her up, molested her, strangled her and afterwards hanged her on a tree, local media reports.

Eva Alordiah: #2 of 5 Nigeria’s Famous Female Singers

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Description: 
Eva could win any man’s love. Any day. With a glowing beauty, heads are easily turned. An abundance of talent, Eva is not just a singer. No. She doubles as a writer, rapper, model, dancer, makeup artist, song writer and hustler too. And it takes a lot of steam and hard work to pull all these through.

However, her moment came calling when she voiced over Lil Wayne’s A Millie instrumental. That experiment paid off. Eva has since built on that.

  

Much ado about Cassava bread

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 President Goodluck Jonathan presenting the 40% Cassava flour-baked
 bread to the public during the weekly meeting of the Executive
 Council of the Federation at the State House, Abuja.

A FEW months ago, the Federal Government had expressed its intention to begin the implementation of a national policy on cassava bread. Under the arrangement, bread manufacturers are expected to substitute 20 per cent of the wheat flour content of bread with cassava flour, a decision that is expected to drastically reduce the country’s total annual wheat import bill by N127 billion from the over N600 billion worth of wheat imports annually. This move by the Federal Government to give full backing to such an initiative of substituting wheat with cassava in the local production of bread in Nigeria is laudable in the sense that it is a good opportunity to make better use of the nation’s abundant cassava, which research has shown to be healthier and a better suitable flour for bread making.

I Open My Boobs To Please My Fans – Singer Yetunde Agboola

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Before she was a great lady but fast rising artist, Yetunde Agboola has begun getting the bad lady option and she's carrying it out due to her fans, according to her. In reality, Yetunde said this is exactly what other ladies do too.

    "I expose my breast for the sake of my fans. And that is what is in vogue now. So there is no big deal in me exposing my boobs," she stressed.

We won’t focus on Messi – Yobo

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Fenerbahce defender Joseph Yobo has stressed that Nigeria will not focus on stopping Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi when they square off with Argentina on Wednesday afternoon.
The Super Eagles skipper has pointed out that there are 10 other players that will be on parade at the Estádio José Pinheiro Borba .
Nigeria's Nigeria's midfielder John Obi Mikel and Nigeria's defender Joseph Yobo (R) shake hands at the end of Group F football match between Iran and Nigeria at the Baixada Arena in Curitiba at the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO / LUIS ACOSTA

Gov Kayode Fayem admits defeat, congratulates Ayo Fayose

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Incumbent Governor of Ekiti State and APC Flag-bearer, Governor Kayode Fayemi has conceded defeat and congratulated Ayo Fayose, the PDP candidate at yesterday's governorship election. At a press conference in Ado Ekiti this morning, Governor Fayemi wished the Governor-elect, Ayo Fayose all the best in his service as Governor of the state.

See the transcript of his speech after the cut as posted on the Facebook wall of the Senior Special Assistant (Corporate Communications) to Governor Fayemi, Mr Akin Rotimi....

Bukola Saraki - GEJ: You can lose even as an incumbent.

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 'If you fail to do the will of the people, even while an incumbent, you can lose.' That's the message former Kwara State governor Bukola Saraki sent to Pres. Jonathan on twitter as he congratulated Ayo Fayose for winning the Ekiti state governorship election.

Senator Saraki and President Jonathan pictured above when he was still in the PDP. He's since moved to APC where their candidate, Fayemi, lost. See his tweets after the break.

24-year-old 'Men of the Strip' star, Nate Estimada commits suicide

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 What a waste. Such a fine specimen of a man! Nate Estimada, one of the stars of male revue and E! reality movie 'Men of the Strip' (male stripping), committed suicide on Wednesday June 18th by driving his car off a cliff, TMZ reports

The 24-year old reportedly drove his Mustang in a mountainous area near the City of Industry in L.A. County during the daytime and accelerated off the cliff, dropping at least 40 ft. into a landfill.

 Authorities have determined the plunge was intentional and they're conducting toxicology tests to determine if drugs were in Estimada's system. 

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#12. EDO STATE: The 36 States of Nigeria and their Meanings

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12. EDO STATE

Hmmmmn, Edo. Initially applied to mean the Bini people (they’ve always called themselves Edo or Iduu, after the progenitor of the Edo race) of the Benin Kingdom (which existed for about 1,000 years before the British conquered it in 1897), Edo today also means the land itself, the culture and the language. It also refers to the adjoining peoples, cultures and languages. The name appears in the royal title of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo. I must chip it in here that many of the websites of Nigerian state governments were absolutely useless for any form of information gathering. Some were either propaganda pages for the governor or were just too bad -graphics and all. Some states did not even have any website! No online representation or presence at all! In the 21st century, this is a shame. But I must say that a few states have very outstanding websites.

WEBSITE: http://www.edostate.gov.ng/node