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The President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), Tari Sekibo, slumped and died yesterday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. A source disclosed that Mr. Sekibo, a former senator, was rushed to the Federal Medical Center where efforts to save his life proved futile. Mr. Sekibo was elected to the position of Ijaw National Congress leader in a hotly contested election in March 2013.

Tragedy struck, Sunday, in the creek of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State as Stella a 200 level student of the state-owned Niger Delta University, one of the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission ad-hoc staff for last Saturday local government election in the state was killed in a boat mishap. It was learnt that the deceased, a student of the Department of Political Science, met her untimely death around Famgbe in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.