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STOKE City midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo has joined the growing list of celebrities offering to contribute towards the education of national heroine Success Adegor whose bragged in a recent Youtube video that she would continue to go to school even if flogged for not being able to afford her school fees.

FEARS are growing that Saturday's planned supplementary elections in the town of Michika in Adamawa State may not hold now following a brutal attack by Boko Haram earlier this week that resulted in numerous deaths and residents fleeing.

BOTH of Nigeria's two main political parties have stepped up their wooing of voters in five states that will hold supplementary polls next Saturday with the handing out of cash and gift items in a desperate attempt to win support.

JUSTICE Walter Onnoghen has accused the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) of tampering with his asset declaration form and falsifying some of the information he submitted in a bid to get him found guilty of failing to declare his assets.

NIGERIA'S senate has passed a bill approving a new minimum wage of N30,000 ($62) per month after accepting the recommendations on the matter by an ad-hoc committee chaired by deputy chief whip Senator Francis Alimikhena to look into the matter.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has warned his party's governors who face supplementary elections on March 23 that he is not going to intervene in the matter and get the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to manipulate the results in their favour.

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) leaders have rejected plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to resume the collation of results of governorship elections in Rivers and Bauchi states ahead of supplementary polls earmarked for March 23.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha faces the prospect of being probed by the incoming government of Imo State after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that he will have to account for how he managed the state's finances over the last eight years.

CIVIL society group the Benue Youth Alliance (BYA) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to get the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) to move the collation centre for the supplementary polls on March 23 to a Makurdi military barracks.

ACTING chief judge of Nigeria Justice Tanko Mohammed has declared that he will stand down from his position if the substantive holder Justice Walter Onnoghen is cleared by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) and allowed to resume duty.