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Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Sam Amadi, the CSO’s director, said there was no overvoting in the election in the “typical sense”.

Amadi said the technology requires good personnel management to ensure the success of BVAS.

“The real failure in the Osun election was not BVAS. It was the personnel that managed the BVAS. As a matter of fact there was no overvoting in Osun in the typical sense. What happened in Osun with a very costly oversight of presiding officers, supervisory presiding officers and INEC officers,” he said.

“There was a practical failure in the implementation of Section 60 (4) and (5) of the Electoral Act. The relevant officers ought to be vigilant and ensure that the BVAS accreditation results were fully loaded before ending the process.

“Even when the losers in the election demanded for the report of the BVAS relevant INEC officials should have ensured that the full report was sent or if there was extreme urgency they would have accompanied with a letter to indicate its interim nature.

“All these failures reinforce the critical importance of the technical and ethical competencies of persons who supervise elections in 2023.

“We have moved to the stage where it matters the quality and character of those who manage technology on election day.”

The CSO’s director said INEC should be careful in selecting ad hoc staff in the forthcoming elections.

“In requesting for staff of sister agencies, INEC should not take any list from such agencies except the nominal list backed up by recent salary slips to verify that those persons are real staff of the agencies,” he said.

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According to the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, the CBN Act mandates commercial banks to accept old notes.

“After the expiration date, such naira notes changed will no longer be legal tender but it also says that even five months, three months, or two months after, even in June, all the old notes presented to the bank shall be redeemed by the bank,” Mr Gbajabiamila had said in a speech on Thursday.

While speaking at the hearing, Emefiele said he is in agreement with the parliament on section 20.

“Section 20 says even after the old currency has lost its legal tender status that we are mandated to collect that money. And I stand with the House of Reps on this,” he said.

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Meanwhile, Osun State Election Petition Tribunal sacked Davido’s uncle Adeleke Ademola As Osun State Governor, declaring Adegboyega Oyetola as the authentic Governor but the legal practitioner is of the opinion that Adeleke Ademola can appeal the matter.

He however urged that the Nigerian government grant the judiciary its total independence at all levels to improve its efficiency and productivity.

Barrister Rotimi opined thus:

“Regardless of the pronouncement of the tribunal, what is certain is that Ademola Adeleke has a right of appeal to the Court of Appeal under section 241 of the constitution as an avenue to lawfully express his dissatisfaction towards the tribunal’s judgment.”It states that; A party dissatisfied with the decision of a court or tribunal can appeal as of right to the Court of appeal within a stipulated period.

”Whichever way it goes, status quo ante bellum should be maintained by both parties pending the outcome of the decision of the appellate courts.”The judiciary sure plays an integral role in our democracy and as such, this should serve as an avenue to call for the total independence of the judiciary in all levels to enhance their efficiency and productivity.”

He said no matter the gang-up, the people must stand firm and support all arrangements designed to protect the interest of the state.

He said: “Nobody should be afraid of whatever is going on in the country. We cannot be intimidated. Nobody can take away this flag away from us. We are not second class citizen to anybody and we must continue to stand firm and make sure our state is protected.”

Wike said in Rivers, only the PDP governorship candidate Siminialayi Fubara and his running mate Prof. Ngozi Odu, could consolidate on the gains of his administration...
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Bakyasuwa said one of the sodomy suspects was apprehended in Tudun Wada area in Gusau, the state capital.

“The suspect confessed to committing the ugly act with a seven-year old child.

“Another sodomy suspect, who sells carrots was also arrested by our personnel for allegedly defiling an almajiri child in Gusau metropolis.

“This suspect specialised in attracting almajiri children especially with carrots to commit the ugly act with them,” he said.

According to him, the other six suspects arrested were arrested during a PDP governorship campaign rally held recently in Kaura Namoda while the rest were rounded up in Gusau for bearing dangerous weapons and for alleged phone snatching.

“All the suspects confessed to committing the crimes when we interrogated them,” he added, noting that their actions violated Gov. Bello Matawalle’s Executive Order No. 11 on thuggery, drugs abuse and other related crimes...

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Speaking on Sunday during a town hall meeting with Muslim leaders from the North East in Bauchi State, Tinubu revealed that he wants to become President so as to do great things for Nigeria.

According to him, his ambition is “to serve a greater purpose”.

“As such, I do not see this campaign as one of personal ambition,” Tinubu said.

“I campaign to serve a greater purpose. I campaign to do great things for the nation but not for myself.

“No matter how hard and difficult the opposition stands against our just cause, we will not relent in our pursuit of a better, more tolerant and good united nation. And with the help of Almighty Allah, we know good shall prevail.”

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Obi told the jubilant organic crowd in the ancient city that he drove round Kano before coming to address them and he found all the industries in the City shutdown, promising that if elected by February, he and Datti will restore them.

He said that the trading status of Kano will return and will remain the center of cash.

“Before, if you want cash you come to Kano but what you see today is poverty everywhere. Datti and I we will restore the old glory of Kano.

“We will secure and unite Nigeria where people will be proud to say I am a Nigerian. We will kill the sentiments of tribe and religion which they have been using to deceive us.’

The former Anambra state Governor told the people amidst shouts of ‘Sai Obi’ that under the Presidency of he and Datti, there will be one Nigeria where the people will be free to move and do their business unmolested.

Obi said that they will be able to do what they are preaching because they have done it in public and private sectors and succeeded, referring to his record in Anambra state where he was governor for eight years and no kobo was missing.

“Datti and I will not allow wastages. We will do exactly what we are saying” Obi stressed.

He told the people that this election is going to be about character you can trust not people who will come to talk about religion and tribe which they have been using to deceive us.

“If they come with their sentiments of religion and tribe tell them to give you job or show you where anybody is buying things cheaper because of where he comes from or because of his religion...
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A suspect linked to the Abuja-Kaduna train attack, Bello Yellow, has been arrested by vigilantes at Zuba town, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The suspect was arrested in the early hours of Sunday when he alighted from a car around Dan-Kogi Motor Park.

A vigilante source told newsmen that the suspect was sighted by members of the Miyetti Allah Vigilantes.

“They called the attention of our members attached to the motor park for assistance.

“He was apprehended and taken to our office where he was searched and detained before being handed over to the police around 4am,” the source said, adding that in the course of the investigation, N103,000 cash was found in his possession, as well as three sticks of cigarette and a lighter.

The vigilante source said the Divisional Police Officer in Zuba personally came to their office with his men to pick up the suspect.

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Enoch, a next-door neighbour to the deceased, claimed Joseph collected the dues on behalf of the treasurer of the department who was not around to receive payment.

According to him, trouble began for Joseph when the president of the department asked him to send N100,000 to him for a departmental project.

Joseph was said to have sent the money through a digital bank app identified as Carbon which was not received by the President even after the digital bank debited him.

He stressed that the situation affected the deceased enormously after the bank did not respond to the series of emails over the transfer, adding that the incident led to many ostracising him.

Emphasising that Joseph did not attend lectures after the Christmas break because of the pressure, Enoch gave a timeline of the last 24 hours of the deceased.

His narration: “Yesterday morning, I went to get my phone from Joseph because his phone is faulty and we both shared my phone. He informed me that his HOD called his daddy and said he was involved in fraud. He was very disturbed about it. He requested to follow me to my office at the Students Union Building (SUB) because he didn’t want to stay alone. I left him at the office to attend the homecoming event held at T.I. Francis Auditorium and also watched the Awopegba match...
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Among those Obi met in Kaduna was a nursing mother who cried her heart out while delaying the convoy of the former governor of Anambra state.

Speaking amid tears, the nursing mother who had her baby with her kept on saying:

“Daddy you’ll win.”

Amid all of this members of Obi’s campaign team asked her for her number while they advised her to take the baby out of the teeming crowd to avoid getting injured.


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Tinubu made the promise during a political campaign held in Jigawa on Saturday.

“If you vote for me, you vote for progress, you vote for development, you vote for agricultural business, you vote for constant electricity, you vote for good life, good education,” he said.

The former Lagos State governor also assured the people of the state they will get good healthcare and experience prosperity if he wins...

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that banks will be open on Saturdays to accept old Naira notes from customers.

According to Punch, Kama Ukpai, leader of the CBN team visiting Ebonyi on new Naira notes, said this during an awareness drive on traders at the Eke Market in Afikpo.

Ukpai advised the public to visit banks to deposit old naira notes as deadline day nears.

CBN said:

“Banks would work on Saturdays for this purpose and there are no limits to amounts that can be deposited.

“The CBN team is in Ebonyi to ensure the implementation of the directives as we have not directed any bank to stop collecting old notes...

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The Rivers Governor, who referred to Ayu’s punitive measures as total rubbish, said they had gone beyond such decisions.

Wike said: “Your suspending people will not help you in any way. The battle line has been fully drawn. As I speak to you we will do everything legally possible to challenge any decision that we know is illegal.

“Don’t think you can threaten people by telling them you are suspended. Rubbish. It is completely rubbish. We are above that level. Don’t think you can threaten and intimidate anybody. We believe in the rule of law and we believe our party must respect their constitution...

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Gabon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Michael Moussa Adamo died of a heart attack during a cabinet meeting, according to the government and a presidential source.

The 62-year-old who was an ally of President Ali Bongo Ondimba died “despite efforts by specialists” to revive him, the government said in a brief statement on Friday.

A source close to the presidential palace said that he “had sat down at the start of the cabinet meeting and began to feel unwell”, according to AFP.

Moussa Adamo was taken to a military hospital while unconscious but died just after midday, the source who spoke on condition of anonymity said.

President Bongo described Moussa Adamo on Twitter as “a great diplomat, a true statesman”.

“For me, he was, first of all, a friend, loyal and faithful, whom I could always count on,” said Bongo.

Joe Biden ran for president three times before he finally won the White House. And 2020 was simply the perfect time for him to give it another go.

As he neared 80, Biden had slowed down considerably from his rambunctious days as a senator and vice president. But with the emergence of COVID, Biden barely hit the campaign trail, running his operation out of the basement of his Delaware mansion.

And let’s be frank: many Americans had tired of President Donald Trump’s act. Many independents who decided to give the outsider a shot in 2016 broke hard for Biden in 2020.

But Biden’s usefulness may have expired. While the president has declared he plans to run again in 2024, at least one lawmaker thinks Democrats are planning to jettison him for a better candidate.

They may have just the right formula. The discovery of classified documents in Biden’s garage and the U.S. attorney general’s recent appointment of a special counsel to probe the matter gives Democrats a vehicle to weaken Biden.

“I mean, there’s an element of this where it’s Joe Biden’s lawyer who turns this information over, it’s Joe Biden’s own Justice Department that’s appointed a special counsel to investigate him,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Fox News Digital.

“There’s an element to this that feels like the Democrats are taking out Joe Biden,” Gaetz said. “I don’t know that that’s the case, but I don’t know that it’s not.”

“Maybe the Democrats have realized that Joe Biden is not useful to them anymore, and they just assume toss him out and get a younger crop of candidates engaged in the next presidential race,” he said. “But just as Joe Biden is hardening the cement around his decision to run for president again, they start looking for what classified documents might have been tucked away eight years ago.”

In the last couple of months, three batches of Obama administration-era classified documents have been found on Biden’s properties: one batch at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., and two at his Wilmington, Delaware, home.

The first batch was found just days before the 2022 midterm elections, but the Department of Justice didn’t release the info until this month.

“We have a lot to learn about the content and substance of those documents, and if they relate to China, and if they were at that Biden Center at UPenn funded by China. That’s going to be a far more grave concern,” Gaetz said.

id911:
U don with fake news again?

He literally said this with his mouth

SensetionalGoal:
CBN should stop this charade... There is no new notes anywhere, the banks don't have it...

But the post literally says they supplied the notes to the banks and they still refused to dispense it

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Friday opened up on endorsing the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi.

Wike said his comment that Obi was presidential material does not mean he endorsed the LP presidential candidate.

Speaking with BBC Pidgin, the governor said: “If I tell Obi that he is a presidential material, does that mean an endorsement?”

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The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on Friday berated commercial banks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State over their refusal to dispense the sum of N4.5billion newly redesigned naira notes, distributed to them in Port Harcourt.

Maxwell Okafor, Branch Controller CBN, Rivers State, who led the CBN enforcement monitoring team on the newly redesigned bank notes to some commercial banks and markets in Port Harcourt, said between Thursday and Friday, the apex bank has disbursed about N4.5bn newly redesigned naira notes to commercial banks in Rivers State and wondered why many bank customers are not getting the new naira note.

He expressed concern that some commercial banks in Port Harcourt were deliberately frustrating the efforts of the apex bank in implementing the disbursement of the new Naira notes by hoarding them in their vaults.
He charged the commercial banks to stop dispensing old notes, saying that another N2 billion of the new notes will be injected into commercial banks in Port Harcourt within the next 24 hours.

Okafor said; “We have been monitoring the dispensing of the new naira note and the impression we have is not encouraging. We have visited some banks and one of the banks we visited was not dispensing the new naira notes.

“Their ATM machines are not functioning even as early as at the time we came. We had it on good authority that the banks received money from CBN. Some of these banks received money yesterday and the money is still in their vaults.

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FELIX OLOKEDE FROM THE STREET JOURNAL

Obasanjo’s decision had generated reactions from many Nigerians, including the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Obasanjo, while speaking on Thursday, insisted that he did not use the word “endorsed,” adding that he only gave his opinion about his preferred presidential candidate.

He said that, “Whether the letter is open or not open, what I believe is that I will be punished by God if I fail to do what is right.

“In my statement, I said that one particular candidate has an edge over other candidates.

“I considered the man’s character, track record, vision and other qualities before making my decision.

“Ater I had finished my observations, I gave my opinion to Nigerians because I see this man as a child of God,” he added.

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Hi! Thanks for reaching out. The feeling lump isn't something I can feel by touch,it's more like having something lodged in your throat. It doesn't affect my every day life but it's very uncomfortable. I've seen the ENT tho and I was given some drugs but I can't say I feel any better or worse.

AmbulatoryMedic:
Hi
Feeling of lump in throat is not an uncommon symptom. It could be caused by simple lymph nodes inflammation due to viral infection to thyroid problems or even issues lower down the oesophagus. It sounds unlikely to be cancer based on your age and absence of other risk factors (you haven’t mentioned any other symptoms, so I assume nothing else).
You probably will need a full throat exam for starters

AmbulatoryMedic:
Could be the muscles there as you rightly said, the muscles there are sternocleidomastoid And trapezius. but there are deeper ones like crico-pharyngeus, omohyoid etc and your symptoms could be a pouch somewhere there. Keep in touch as you planned.
Kind regard

Hello!

Hope you're having a lovely day?

The ENT diagnosed me with Pharyngitis and gave me some antibiotics and anti inflammatory pills. I've used the whole pack and I can't even say I feel better or I feel worse. The lump feeling comes and goes now but the slight pain when I swallow is still there and sometimes I feel pain in my ears. That's why I can't term in progress

AmbulatoryMedic:
Hi
Feeling of lump in throat is not an uncommon symptom. It could be caused by simple lymph nodes inflammation due to viral infection to thyroid problems or even issues lower down the oesophagus. It sounds unlikely to be cancer based on your age and absence of other risk factors (you haven’t mentioned any other symptoms, so I assume nothing else).
You probably will need a full throat exam for starters

Thanks for reaching out. The lump I talked about isn't something I can feel when I touch my neck, it's just a feeling I get.

This morning tho, I woke up with a part of neck thicker than usual. It's the muscle that runs down to the collarbone, I don't know what the name of the muscle is tho but it's located on both sides of the neck, so the left side hurts when I touch it.

Not sure if it's a neck strain due to the fact that I stack up pillows because I suspect I might be suffering from LPR. Anyway, I will be going to see an ENT specialist on Monday to rule out all possibilities because the anxiety is crippling , it was so bad this morning that I couldn't even walk.

This throat issue is throwing me into depression. I'll let you know whatever the ENT says. Thanks again.

Hello!

First time on Nairaland.

So, on May 19th I woke up with a sore throat. I waited it out for a couple of days to let it clear up but it didn't, so I went to the pharmacy to buy a throat spray, I used this for a week but it still hurts when I swallow. So I thought it's a bacteria infection, I went to buy erythromycin, I used that till I finished the whole pack but the pain in my throat was still there.

The thing is, the pain didn't increase and neither did it decrease and I'm still able to eat food without any issue and drink water. Then, one night I noticed I had a feeling of something lodged in my throat, I drank loads of water to push it down but all to no relief, and I also feel like I have phlegm at the back of my throat so I constantly have to clear it.

I'm not in any sort of unimaginable pain or anything because I'm still able to carry on with my daily activities without stress but my anxiety levels has increased because of the feeling of something stuck in my throat.

So, I googled my symptoms and boy do I regret that already. I saw a disease called gerd and LPR and the dreaded "C" word. The thought of that makes me want to have a panic attack.

I'm a 24 year old male who doesn't smoke nor drinks. What do you guys think could be the problem? Help me out, I'm losing my mind here!