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Over 200 people were killed in the riots.
The chairman of the media company that owns the paper said the management had sacked style writer Isioma Daniel.
"As for the writer of the offensive article, she is pleading forgiveness. She has also offered her resignation for inadvertently causing so much pain to the nation and the paper," Chairman Nduka Obaigbena said.
"We find her action inexcusable and therefore have accepted her resignation."
On Friday Nigeria's state security service said it had arrested Daniel. But she had not been charged and there was no news of her fate.
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