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A minor who showed up at the
Kofar Pada polling unit in front of
the Emir palace in Keffi, Nasarawa
State, stirred up a heated argument
between agents of political parties
participating in today’s
governorship and state assembly
elections, leading to scuffles.

The boy of about 12 whose name
Daily Trust decided not to mention,
divided opinion among agents of
the PDP, APC, and APGA as well as
Accord party, Shehu Kassim
Yamusa, Auwal Shauibu,, Monday
Yohanna, and Yusuf Shuaibu,
respectively, leading to a shouting
match before security personnel,
polling officers, and a European
observers team.

Some insisted the under-aged voter,
who presented a valid PVC for
accreditation be allowed to
perform his civic duty at that age
because he has been so registered
by INEC, while others insisted he
must not be allowed because doing
so contravenes the provisions of the
law on age of voters.

The argument lasted over 20
minutes, with agents even engaging
themselves in a scuffle that took a
combined team of policemen and
other security agencies to separate
them.

All of these happened before a team
of European Observers, which was
led by Dirk Veheyen, and Joelle
Meganck. The foreigner observers
interviewed the little boy, and took
down his data, but declined to
speak officially to our
correspondent.

Meanwhile, the Presiding Officer in
charge of the polling unit, Miss
Rashidat Momoh told Daily Trust
that the unit was not going to
accredit the minor, although would-
be voters at the unit told their
correspondent that the boy voted on
March 28, in the first round of
elections.

The unit’s senior policeman, Insp.
Alibade Charles confirmed the
incident.


http://www.lailasblog.com/2015/04/underage-voter-causes-fight-among-party.html

More tweets

Some Twitter users were totally
not impressed after this photo of
Nollywood actor cum politician
Desmond Elliot hit the web.It
shows him surrounded by
Nigerian policemen all looking
at the cash in his hands.

Nnamdi Anekwe took to his
page to ask for some
explanation and it turns out the
photo was allegedly from
yesterday and shows Desmond
handing out lunch money to the
security officers that escorted
him.
Tweets continue after the
cut.

Jos - The Commissioner for
Education in Plateau, Mr Paul Wai, on
Friday, warned that any school
caught in examination malpractice in
the state would be blacklisted.

The commissioner gave the warning
while inspecting WAEC centres in Jos,
saying the state had zero tolerance
for such acts.

Wai, who was represented by the
Permanent Secretary, Secondary
Education, Mrs Ruth Biangten, told
newsmen during the inspection that
the state had no tolerance for
anything that would lower its
standard of education. The commissioner, who frowned at
examination malpractice, said it had
a long time stain on the perpetrators
and the society if not tackled
immediately.

"Malpractice has destroyed the future
of many bright students in higher
institutions as they find it difficult to
cope with their academics after
gaining admission with such
unmerited results," he said.

He, however, expressed satisfaction
with the sanitary condition of schools
visited and the arrangement of the
WAEC examination halls there.
He said an organised environment
helped in minimising examination
fraud, unlike in years past where halls
were congested and very noisy during
examinations.

Wai applauded the examination
council for providing sufficient
examination materials and for
ensuring that the examination was
concluded fairly.

- NAN

TY Danjuma

No matter how flawed he was or even if they don’t
agree with his decisions, Igbos don’t joke around
with the legacy of Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu…
they simply don’t.

A couple of days ago, while playing host to
President Goodluck Jonathan, former Chief of
Army Staff, General TY Danjuma (retd.) committed
a huge blunder, by chastising Ojukwu, the late Igbo
leader and Biafran warlord.

Danjuma goofed by saying that if Ojukwu had
conceded defeat after Enugu fell to the Nigerian
army like Jonathan conceded defeat to
Muhammadu Buhari, the civil war could have
been averted.

At a time when the Igbos were still upset over the
threatening comments of the Oba of Lagos, it was
a no-brainer that a backlash would precede
Danjuma’s comments.
And now they have started trickling in- from
different Igbo leaders:

The first four persons to react to Danjuma’s
utterances are; former Secretary-General of
Ohaneze Ndigbo and officer in the Biafran Army,
Col Joe Achuzia; Second Republic Politician, Chief Guy Ikokwu; botched Third Republic Governor of
Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife and
former Deputy National President of the Nigeria
Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chief Abia Onyike.
Ezeife’s response was rather brief. He said: “I
know Danjuma is not very well. So I am not
surprised.”

Ikokwu on his part, claimed that Danjuma killed
Nigeria’s first military Head of State, General
Ajuiyi Ironsi (an Igbo), stating that he will get a full
response after the elections because by talking
about Ojukwu, he is talking about the South-East
and South-South geo-political zones, which
constituted most of the former Eastern Region and
later the defunct Biafra.

He said: “I don’t think we should take issues with
Danjuma until after the elections. Jonathan went
to him and not him to Jonathan. We shall respond
to him.”

Meanwhile, Col Joe Achuzia said: “I am happy that
my friend Danjuma owned up that there was
bloodshed and pogrom against the people of
Biafra. I don’t understand what he meant by
Ojukwu conceding defeat. If the Federal
Government had implemented the Aburi Accord,
the bloodshed would have been avoided.”

“Ojukwu believed in Aburi as the road map for
peace at the time of the crisis but the Federal
Government reneged on the agreement reached in
Ghana. One does not concede defeat half way into
a battle. Doing that would have amounted to
cowardice. I don’t know where Danjuma got the
idea of Ojukwu not accepting defeat from. He has
little knowledge of the intricacies of the war. He
didn’t even know the terrain of the Enugu that he
talked about.”

“If the necessities of capitulating were there, why
did the war last for three years? I fought the war for
three years and I know that the necessities were
not there. Sometimes people talk for talking sake.
The President’s visit to him was a private one and
he should not have used that opportunity to insult
all that Ojukwu stood for. To say publicly that the
President was defeated was even a mockery of the
President.”

“It does not portray the President in good light. Of
course what he said was an insult on Ojukwu. His
reference to the fall of Enugu is laughable because
the war was just starting then. Which military
officer will surrender in that kind of situation even
before firing a bullet? When some people make
wrong comments on the civil war, I wonder what
often inform their judgement. Ojukwu was a
General and was right on all the decisions he took
in the interest of the Igbo.”

Onyike shared the others’ sentiments, saying: “In
the first place, it was Danjuma that backed the
spilling of the blood of the Igbo, with the killing of
Aguiyi Ironsi in Ibadan in 1967 and we want to say
that Danjuma belongs to the group of Army
Officers who led the gruesome genocide and
massacre of over three million Igbo during the
Nigerian civil war.”
“We want to say that the problem with General T.Y. Danjuma is mainly psychological because at a
time when some of them felt that they had become
great statesmen and patriots for presiding over the
attempted extermination of the Igbo, unfortunately
for them, the Igbo people survived and have come
to assert themselves and their identity in the
Nigerian federation.”

“Secondly, a twist emerged in the Nigerian scene
where people like Danjuma and the minority group
where he comes from in the Northern have been
subjected to the same gruesome murders by
militant elements of the same northern oligarchy
which they serve, and to that extent Danjuma
cannot go to his village.”
“So, let him go and resolve that problem 0
because when Ojukwu was making them
understand the nature of the Nigerian federation
and the dangers inherent in the politics that was
emerging, Danjuma preferred to be a surrogate. So
I felt he should stop using the Igbo to hide his
inadequacies.”

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Best thing to do is to smash your phone on a hard floor and re-assemble the pieces.


Thank me later.

OMG! I almost didn’t recognise her.

What do you think of her makeup,
guys?

It is for her new movie
‘ Iyabadan‘.

THREAD CLOSED

Abuja - A new law has been passed
that bans children under 12 years
from doing domestic house help,
those that do not comprehend with
the law will spend two to ten years
in jail, Punch reported.

The law called, trafficking in
Persons Enforcement and
Administration Act 2015, which
was passed by President, Goodluck
Jonathan.

The Director-General of the
National Agency for Prohibition of
Traffic in Person, Beatrice Jedy-
Agba expresses the new law will
impose tougher penalties on
human trafficking offenders.

Also read: Nigeria investigates
report of rapes, trafficking in camps
Children under 12 will now not
suffer from abuse and exploitation,
those who do not respect the law
will be jailed for not less than two
years.

Agba further expressed that alleged
cases of trafficking of children in
refugee camps have been ruled out
but if there would be a case then a
full investigation will be conducted.

For more on this story visit Punch.com.ng

- News24

The tweet

According to the lady behind the
twitter account above the 3
Orekoya children kidnapped by
their houshelp have spoken to
their parents.The kidnappers are
negotiating their release..
The kids have not been
found. But the parents
spoke with the children
on phone. Negotiations
are still ongoing
Glad to know they are
safe.What wickedness from the
so called help..Hope she and her
accomplices get caught.

waistaa:
Get a screen grabber that is good for the eyes biko

Abeg no mind my china fone jare

Bt wait oo,even my GrandMa read it clearly without complaining.

Rivers State governor Rotimi
Amaechi‘s outfit he wore to a
campaign rally yesterday has got
everyone on social media talking.

Am not quite sure how to describe
the attire… so I’ll leave it to you.

Caption this:

This is from his profile on
Wikipedia, You Go Fear name
na!

Mynd44:
You people are all little Boko Harams...

Whats the relation between your comment and the topic?

Nawa oo

A flier titled: ‘The evils of the broom
government against Ndigbo in Lagos
state’ has been circulating over
social media for the past few hours.

The flier- which was made by
proponents of the PDP governorship
candidate in Lagos, Jimi Agbaje, -
seeks to create division and enmity
between the Igbos and Yorubas in the
state.

Agbaje has been on the receiving end
of a lot of criticism since the flier
surfaced, it is, however, not clear if he
was aware of its creation or not.


See flier below:

Governor Kwankwaso

Kano - Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso
of Kano, has applauded
President Goodluck Jonathan for
his magnanimity by conceding
defeat to Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari in the March 28
Presidential Election.

The governor commended
Jonathan on Sunday while
briefing newsmen in Kano, on
the outcome of the last
Presidential and National
Assembly Elections in the
country.

“I want to commend the
President’s action in conceding
defeat. This shows that
President Jonathan is a true
statesman,” he said.

The governor, who also
congratulated Buhari on his
victory, attributed the success of
the election to the determination
of Nigerians to have a change in
leadership.

Kwakwanso assured Nigerians
that Buhari would run a
transparent government.
He said the new administration
would fight corruption and
provide maximum security to
citizens of the country.

Kwankwaso then urged the
President-elect, to live up to his
campaign promises to justify
the confidence reposed in him.

- NAN

Acekidc4:
No mind the Yeye Dude Jawe, he tinkz we are Learner or JJC.


Ow you Side Oga Mi??
Shey you don land for Lagos??

Na my thread una turn 2 una discussion board abi?

God is watching u guys in 3D tv

Acekidc4:
No mind the Yeye Dude Jawe, he tinkz we are Learner or JJC.


Ow you Side Oga Mi??
Shey you don land for Lagos??

Na my thread una turn 2 una discussion board abi?

God is watching i guys in 3D tv

Acekidc4:
This is Photoshopped Na

Those things u took yesterday wont make u see the pix clearly..

Acekidc4:
Easter was good and fun oh!!
Drink myself to stupor yesterday!!
The Hangover wey dey do me right now no get part2. Ah just dey Manage maself

I can c d effect of dos "Green" bottles u took yesterday.

A builder was stunned when he
spotted Jesus Christ on a plank of
wood just a few days before Easter.

Paddy Morrall noticed the full-length
Christ on a snapped scaffolding board
in Scotland. The image appeared
after they cut the wood and left it out
for a while. He told reporters:

‘We didn’t take it too seriously but it
really did look like him. We thought it
was a bit crazy. It’s the first time I’ve
seen anything like this. I’m not a
normally a religious guy but it is
Easter. We all thought it was pretty
mad.’

How much are you gonna pay me if i answer it?


OWONIKOKO (MONEY IS IMPORTANT)

I didn't use this.

I only used Razor and Electric clipper.




Lest I forget:

I AM FTC

Brymo:
I might be wrong, i hate all this white borrowed culture, Look at where it has gotten d guy into!

See where borrowed culture has landed him...

Babe2sure:
Eeyah! In public? The guy would never forget that day. It would always be a sore memory for him and the most embarrasing moment of his life.

Surely,it will be a never-forget experience