Waching daily Nov 5 2017

Today in Nigeria's History November 5 November 5, 1982 Uzodinma Iweala, an author, a

physician and a sociologist is born in Washington in the United States. He is

the author of the book 'Beasts of No Nation' which was adapted into a movie in

2015. He is also the son of former minister Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

1999 Journalist Sam Boyi of Adamawa state Newspaper, The Scope is killed in a crossfire

between security guards of the governor of the state

Haruna Bonnie and about Thirty(30) gunmen who attacked the governor of the state as he

was traveling from Yola to Bauchi. Sam Boyi was one of the journalists

assigned to cover the trip. 2013 The Federal government

formally hands over Nnamdi Azikiwe stadium to the Enugu state government

following an approval by then President Goodluck Jonathan to the application by

the state government. 1963 A Census begins in Nigeria as the result of the

census carried out the year before was rejected by the government because the

count of the southern part of the country was higher than that of the

northern part. The 1963 census results which was accepted by the government was

vice versa but it was contested at the Supreme Court. The court however said it

lacked jurisdiction on the matter. 2014 Sixteen(16) men who had been arrested by soldiers

in Potiskum, Yobe state on suspicion of being members of the

dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, are found dead at the Potiskum General

Hospital with bullet wounds on them. The leaders of Dogo Tebo community

where the men had been arrested believe the men were killed by the soldiers.

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