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- ↑ Jimitota Onoyume (10 June 2008). "Rivers State House Replaces Impeached Officers". Vanguard . Retrieved 21 September 2016– via AllAfrica.
- ↑ Mezie Ekenna (2 January 2009). "Privatisation and matters arising". The Nation . Retrieved 21 September 2016.
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