Asaba’s night of music, fun and girls
Posted by: OKUNGBOWA AIWERIE For many in most cities, nightlife provides opportunities to unwind after the day’s work, especially as the average Nigerian can ill afford the yearly luxury of …
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Soyinka: A Biafran memory of Asaba by: Emma Okocha
In his last important work, Chinua Achebe offered his own description of the human debacle which characterised the prosecution of the Nigerian Civil War. In his in- imitable pungency, the …
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Work Suspended on 2nd Niger Bridge.
The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam, admitted yesterday that the Federal Government erred in commencing work on the construction of the Second Niger Bridge without consideration for the Environmental Impact …
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Aero commences operations at Asaba airport
Aero Contractors, one of Nigeria’s leading airlines, begins scheduled flights at Asaba Airport, Delta State, today, with Lagos and Abuja as the initial routes. This brings to three the number …
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Asaba without the Niger Bridge.
It is hard to imagine now but there was a time when there was no bridge between Asaba and Onitsha. This is a picture of people taking ferry from …
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Asaba as Nigeria’s first capital
It is baffling that in the face of Asaba serving as Nigeria’s first ever capital, Calabar and Lokoja are laying claims to the same historical position in Nigeria. Calabar’s claim especially …
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Asaba Celebrates the Inne festival
It is a right of passage in Ahaba Ibokwe. Every year and in the last week of September, Asaba people go into the streets to celebtate the INNE festival. This …
Read MoreWoman killed in Ogwashi bank robbery
By Austin Ogwuda ASABA—IT was a bloody day at Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, yesterday as a gang of armed robbers raided a first generation …
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By Ike Okonta Okonta is a writer, scholar and journalist. In 2005, he earned a D.Phil from the University of Oxford where he has also taught. He was shortlisted by …
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Asaba getting a Shopping Mall?
A shopping mall valued at $100 million (about N15 billion) will soon berth in Asaba, capital of Delta State.New City Mall Limited, the company behind the investment has disclosed. According …
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