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This election is over, PDP lost it, no need pretending. Most of numbers published were done right at the polling stations. INEC cannot have different numbers than those announced at polling places. APC won this one, we shall continue this battle in Adamawa in the next couple of weeks.

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crazypatriot: Jonathan will pay dearly not only with his future but the future of his generations to come if what I just heard is true, whoever love that man should tell him that as small as osun is, that's where he will meet his waterloo if he dare rig this election, fingers crossed

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Look for a padlock and key your mouth up forever.

Confusion,

Very good.

BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.




None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away.

"Even when she was hit with stones she did not scream or move," said an opposition activist who said he witnessed the stoning near the football stadium and the Bajaa garden in the city of Raqqa, the main Syrian stronghold of the Islamic State group.

The July 18 stoning was the second in a span of 24 hours. A day earlier, 26-year-old Shamseh Abdullah was killed in a similar way in the nearby town of Tabqa by Islamic State fighters. Both were accused of having sex outside marriage.

The killings were the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where jihadis from the Islamic State group have seized large swaths of territory, terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and cutting off the hands of thieves. The jihadis recently tied a 14-year-old boy to a cross-like structure and left him for several hours in the scorching summer sun before bringing him down -- punishment for not fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The group has also brutalized Shiite Muslims and others whom it views as apostates. In neighboring Iraq, Islamic State militants have driven members of the Yazidi religious minority out of a string of towns and villages. Thousands of the fleeing Yazidis have been stranded on a mountaintop for days, a humanitarian crisis that prompted the U.S. to airlift aid to them this week.

On Friday, Kamil Amin, the spokesman for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, said hundreds of Yazidi women under the age of 35 are being held by the Islamic State group in schools in Iraq's second largest city Mosul, which the militants captured in June.

The stonings in Syria last month were not widely publicized at the time, but in the following days three photographs appeared online which appeared to document the grisly spectacle and were consistent with other AP reporting.

The pictures posted on a newly-created Twitter account showed dozens of people gathered in a square, a cleric reading a verdict through a loudspeaker and several bearded men with automatic rifles either carrying or collecting stones.



Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, the activist who witnessed Ahmad's stoning, said locals where angry to see foreign fighters impose their will on the community.

"People were shocked and couldn't understand what was going on. Many were disturbed by the idea that Saudis and Tunisians were issuing (such) orders," he said in an interview via Skype. Ahmad, he said, appeared unconscious, and he had overheard that she was earlier taken to a hospital where she was given anesthesia.

The stoning took place after dark, he said, at about 11 p.m. He could not see blood on the body because of the black clothes she was wearing. Ahmad did not scream or shake, and died silently. "They then took the dead body in one of their cars and left," he said.

The two cases were first reported by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects information through a network of activists around the country. Bassam Al-Ahmad, a spokesman for the Violations Documentation Center, a Syrian group that tracks human rights violations, also confirmed the stoning.

An activist based in the northern province of Idlib, who collects information from other activists in northern Syria, said Ahmad was a widow. A man who asked to be identified as Asad for fear of repercussions, said that in the other stoning, in Tabqa, residents also refused to take part, and that the act was carried out by Islamic State members.

The U.S. Embassy in Syria, in a statement posted on its Twitter account, condemned the "barbaric stoning" of a woman in Tabqa.

International human rights groups did not report the stoning, and Human Rights Watch said it had no independent confirmation.

"It is a very worrying trend if true," said Human Rights Watch researcher Lama Fakih.

The Islamic State group has "imposed incredibly restrictive rules on the civilian population which have served to make women and girls particularly vulnerable and to quite clearly discriminate against them," she said, adding that the reports of the stoning were the first the group had received out of Syria.

"This is just a more sort of extreme manifestation of those restrictive rules which are all in violation of international" human rights law, she said.

Such acts have alarmed members of mainstream Syrian opposition groups fighting to remove President Bashar Assad from power since 2011.

"These behaviors have nothing to do with the nature and mentality of Syrian society," said Abdelbaset Sieda, a senior member of the main Western-backed Syrian National Coalition. He said the group had no official confirmation of the stoning cases although he did not rule it out. "We expect such acts to be carried out by the Islamic State," he said.

The Hazm Movement, another rebel group active in northern Syria, said the stonings did take place. It added that such acts "contradict the principals of the revolution" and encourage the world to refrain from giving any support to the rebels.

"The world should know that every day they delay real support to active moderate groups is direct support to extremist factions," the group said in response to written questions from The Associated Press.

http://news.yahoo.com/women-stoned-death-syria-adultery-174549066.html

Sincere9gerian: It was even rumoured that Aregbe mobilized funds from states like Rivers and Lagos to pay salaries. FREE AND FAIR elections FORCED Aregbe to do more for Osun people. That is the beauty of democracy.

Anyway, if the PDP candidate loses today, he should try again in 4 years time

No matter where he got money, he solved a major political problem. He did not display the political naivety of Fayemi. He saw a liability and, he took care of it. That's why he is winning today.

LordVarys: I agree.....paying civil servants et al......he campaigned like he was the underdog

I think, we have seen two campaigns in SW, that will be studied for years to come. Fayose in Ekiti and Aregbe in Osun. They practically ran similar campaigns. One as the challenger, the other as the sitting gov. Both extremely effective.

LordVarys: the gap was actually quite sizeable...... ... OSUN GEJ 188,409 Ribadu 299,
711.
you say Omisore was unsellable, that I doubt, he was the strongest candidate the PDP had, Isiaka adeleke couldn't win, wole oke was too weak.....Omisore was the strongest of the lot, the problem was that Aregbesola was relatively popular and a grassroots guy unlike Fayemi who was detached from local politics, believe me if anybody other than aregbesila was on that box Omisore could have won.....in 2018 he could still try
Only Ijeshas generally had issues with Omisore because of bola ige

Aregbe had enough time, to repair most of his political issues, after seeing what happened in Ekiti. If the election were held 2-3 weeks after the Ekiti election,I believe the results would have different. Aregbe effectively deployed state resources and used his power as the Incumbent very well.

Sincere9gerian: True but it is not over until it is over.

PDP has not done well enough in places like Ife to overcome the deficit in APC strongholds. Overtaking Aregbe is almost impossible with the numbers currently released.

You have to give credit to Aregbe for running a very good campaign. That word stomach infrastructure was effectively deployed in Osun. The final numbers will be much closed than we see now, but he dammed the river well enough, to stop a PDP avalanche.

All indications point to a victory for APC. Congratulations in advance. Enjoy your victory, at least NL will not collapse this time around..

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Kanwulia: Na who dey blame JONADUNCE?
Nor be OBJ put am for dia?

OBJ IS THE REAL JOKE!
Of all the people in the South-South. . . na that IJAW FISH-BRAIN e fit pick as figure-head presido of Nigeria!
With a First-Lady from OKRIKA MARKET?

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This constant lie by some groups in this country is worse than boko haram. All your attempts to belittle the Nigerian army is out right dumb. 99.9% of the ones posting this crap are the very people in the cross hair of boko haram. Keep insulting the army, you might have to carry your own gun and take on boko haram, as they are your brothers and friends. Because sooner or later other Nigerians will walk off the battle field for you people.

Washington (AFP) - People with symptoms of Ebola will inevitably spread worldwide due to the nature of global airline travel, but any outbreak in the US is not likely to be large, health authorities say.


More suspected cases of Ebola moving across borders via air travel are expected, as West Africa faces the largest outbreak of the hemorrhagic virus in history, said Tom Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The virus spreads by close contact with bodily fluids and has killed 932 people and infected more than 1,700 since March in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Liberia.

"It is certainly possible that we could have ill people in the US who develop Ebola after having been exposed elsewhere," Frieden told a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

"But we are confident that there will not be a large Ebola outbreak in the US."



"We are all connected and inevitably there will be travelers, American citizens and others who go from these three countries -- or from Lagos if it doesn't get it under control -- and are here with symptoms," Frieden said.

However, a CDC spokesman later clarified that Frieden was not saying the United States was bound to get Ebola cases.

"It is inevitable that people are going to show up with symptoms. It is possible that some of them are going to have Ebola," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.

There is no treatment or vaccine for Ebola, but it can be contained if patients are swiftly isolated and adequate protective measures are used, Frieden said.


- Equipment lacking -

Ken Isaacs, vice president of program and government relations at the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse warned that the world is woefully ill-equipped to handle the spread of Ebola.

"It is clear that the disease is uncontained and it is out of control in West Africa," he told the hearing.

"The international response to the disease has been a failure."


Both fell ill with Ebola while treating patients in the Liberian capital, and their health is now improving.

"One of the things that I recognized during the evacuation of our staff is that there is only one airplane in the world with one chamber to carry a level-four pathogenic disease victim," Isaacs said.

He also said personal protective gear is hard to find in Liberia, and warned of the particular danger of kissing the corpse farewell during funeral rites.

"In the hours after death with Ebola, that is when the body is most infectious because the body is loaded with the virus," he said.


- Traveler cases -

Ebola can cause fever, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea and bleeding. It has been fatal in about 55 percent of cases during this outbreak.

Last month, Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian finance ministry employee who was also a naturalized American citizen, brought the virus to Lagos.

Sawyer had traveled to Nigeria from Liberia via Togo's capital Lome, and was visibly sick upon arrival at the international airport in Lagos on July 20.

He died in quarantine on July 25.

As many as seven people who had close contact with Sawyer have fallen ill with Ebola, and one has died, Nigeria's Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.

A Saudi Arabian man who had recently traveled to Sierra Leone and showed Ebola-like symptoms died Wednesday of a heart attack, but authorities in Riyadh did not reveal the results of Ebola tests.

A suspected New York patient tested negative on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Greece and Benin were also running tests on potential Ebola cases.

Ebola first emerged in 1976, and has killed more than 1,500 people since then. Within weeks, the death toll from this outbreak alone is expected to surpass that number.


http://news.yahoo.com/ebolas-spread-us-inevitable-says-cdc-chief-205903838.

utumunta: The picture was taken in America, not Villa.

"The president was recently spotted without foot-
wear during a Strategic meeting with his staff
prior to his departure for the US-Africa Summit
in Washing DC".

jpphilips: Is that it? your final mental exhaustion? tell me exactly, how does it feel to be completely dumb that the world moves so fast leaving you behind?
do you feel depressed sometimes? were you among the chaps who had a salt water bath this morning? still trying so hard to understand the life you live in mental diarrhea. take heart bro!
If until 8th of August you don't see the reason why Onyebuchi chukwu should be fired, then life must be so unfair to you for Moses to have had the duty of executing your creation. take heart again, it is well!!

supporter of APC your acclaim intelligence never took you from an Almajiris compound. Spare me your crap.

jpphilips: What has changed in our export capacity in the last 8months that all of a sudden, our export can now over ride a $1.5b deficit according to you?

The IOCs and state owned NNPC, have been the primary financiers of the currency market in the last 2 months. The question is, why were they sidelined before, making the CBN the primary and in most cases only source. Also, where is that huge demand for dollars, that we heard about all the time? The demand that keep the naira under constant pressure. The market has gone for 6 weeks without CBN intervening once. Something that happened weekly under the previous chairman.

jpphilips: It is not my fault that you are a m0r0n who don't understand English

Coming from a supporter of APC like you, is actually a compliment.

jpphilips: Its been long I saw dollar at 160naira truth be told, it got so bad that it sold for 169naira at some point, I really don't care who did what, all I demand is results, don't be amazed that if you go deeper into the nitty gritty of this current economic growth, it may transcend beyond CBN and whoever is piloting its affairs.
Cant get excited in a Jonathan's administration, his failure to sack Onyebuchi chukwu on this Ebola madness is incompetence personified.

Why do you vomit rubbish all the time?

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bushdoc9919: WHEN YOU NIGERIANS INVEST MORE IN PUBLIC HEALTH!

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redcliff: Cant tou see that the ambulance guys are well kitted up? What else are you looking for?

The guys in the ambulance are simply taking precaution, regardless of the true situation of the patient.

This kind pictures and rumors will cause a public stampede, that will be worse than ebola.

^^^^ which workers? the ones on strike?

lomaxx: Neither is it mine.

So, why did you quote me?

EasternLeopard: In Liberia most doctors have refused to show up for work out of fear

Just imagine what Nija doctors are thinking

Nigerian doctors have been on strike for almost 6 weeks now. Ebola is just another reason not to work.

lomaxx: What measures have you put in place to ensure that these doctors won't die from the same Ebola? Ward coats and gloves?

Good luck to the ex-NMA boss in all his future endeavors.

You don't have to work mister, it is really not my problem.

Imagine an Ebola crisis on our door step, yet our doctors want to be on strike.

The market has been saved from that constant pressure the Naira was under. Sanusi spent about $1.5B monthly supporting the Naria. Since the new CBN chairman came on board, exporters have become the regular suppliers of dollars to the market, not CBN.

wazoboy: Nawa for you people in Lagos oo. In my own part of Nigeria, those pics are what we call very busy and crowded street

You got that right,

chiefinalowo: This is silly man!

Not really, I expect a level of decency, when questioned by immigration about his travelling itinerary. He did every thing possible to hide his Liberia identity.

andresia: Geeez I cant imagine a supposed educated person typed this with the knowledge of the outbreak of the virus in the country Sawyer arrived from are you this daft

Which country did he arrive from? Was there any outbreak in Lome Togo? Sawyer entered Nigeria with an American passport.