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Rivers Election Result: INEC declares Wike winner (Vanguard Newspaper)
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Barr Nyesom Wike has been declared winner of last Saturday’s governorship election in Rivers state, polling a total of 1,029,102 votes amounting to 87.77 percent to beat Dr Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress, APC who had 124,896 votes amounting to 10.65 percent to come a distant second.
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Ambode extends hand of partnership to Agbaje, others (Guardian News)
The Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has called on the PDP governorship candidate, Mr Jimi Agbaje and others who contested against him to join hands with his administration to build the state.
Ambode spoke on Sunday while delivering his acceptance speech at the APC secretariat in Lagos shortly after he was declared winner of the governorship elections.
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Hillary Clinton sets off for tour of key states (BBC News)
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has set out for a tour of key states, at the start of her campaign to become the first woman US president. She is taking a road trip to meet small groups of voters in Iowa, having announced her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday. She had been expected to declare her candidacy for months.
Mrs Clinton ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 but lost to Barack Obama.
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Global food price index drops again in March | BusinessDay
Global food prices index again declined in March, dropping 1.5 percent from February, and 18.7 percent (40 points) below its level a year earlier, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) disclosed in its latest Food Price Index. The report, which explained that the continued drops were driven by sugar’s sharp slide, informed that the index had
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