₦airaland Forum

Abuja – The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), says it has done
everything to protect its card readers from
being hacked or jammed on Election Day.
Mr Chidi Nwafor, the Director of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT), INEC,
stated this at a Situation Room Dialogue
with INEC officials in on Wednesday in Abuja.
The dialogue was organised by the Nigeria
Civil Society Situation Room, with support
from the British Department for
International Development (DFID).
Nwafor said the meeting became necessary,
following insinuations by some people that
there were plans to jam or hack its server or
card readers.
“I want to assure you that we have done
everything possible in terms of security
issues; in terms of when it was being
designed, we have considered a lot of
things.
“In any technology, we bring out issues as
an engineer, but you must also know that
this equipment you are bringing is for
electoral process.
“Therefore, for you to make a design, you
must also look at full electoral process of
voting.
“Where are the ways this thing can be
hacked? Where are the ways this equipment
can be used in a negative ways? All these we
have considered.
Nwafor added that the commission’s
Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and card
readers would help to eliminate election
frauds in the forthcoming general elections.
He identified some of the election fraud in
the country to include buying of votes, voter
impersonation, ballot stuffing, mis-recording
of vote and multiple voting.
“Multiple voting should be a thing of the
past and the card reader would ensure one
man: one vote,’’ he said.
He, however, added that curbing election
fraud was not just the duty of INEC but all
stakeholders.
Also speaking, INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru
Jega, expressed the commission’s
confidence in its card readers, adding that it
had procured adequate functional card
readers needed for the conduct of the
elections.
Jega said that the commission had taken
adequate measures to ensure that the card
readers do not fail, stating that in the mock
test conducted, no card reader failed.
“We have about 150,000 voting points,
because we broke some of the large polling
units into voting points.
“We have procured 182,000 card readers, of
all of these, we have only about 400 that
were `dead on arrival’ – factory faults.
“They have been brought and they cannot
boot, so we are comfortable about the
integrity of the card readers itself and all the
public demonstrations and test we have
done, no card reader has failed.
“In addition we already have extra battery in
case there is a problem with the charge of
batteries or lack of functionality of the
battery.“
Jega added that because the country would
be holding three elections in one day, it had
to adopt measures to ensure that the ballot
papers were properly placed in correct
ballot boxes.
“Because we are doing three elections on
March 28 and then two set on April 11, we
are using three ballot boxes and three and
two ballot boxes for March 28 and April 11
respectively.
“We have done colour coding just to make it
easier to avoid mistake in placing the ballot
papers in the appropriate ballot boxes,’’ he
added.
He said the commission had agreed to open
each of the ballot boxes and sort out
wrongly placed ballot papers after election
in the presence of all agents and observers
before counting.
According to him, the commission would
continue with its sensitisation programme
on the need for people to place their cast
votes in the appropriate boxes. (NAN)

thank God for a new Era........

Exjoker:
The lady seem very confident of herself. Now, if you date her (they I'm seeing) and things didn't come work out the way you had expected and you come and abundant her. Imagine the kind of pain she will go through. Relationship don't last long with this kind of people o. You go soon tire

omoh i wasnt thinking of dating her oooo...i will feel good if she tells me her story face 2 face..dats wht i mean ...bro

Exjoker:
And do what? I'm beginning to suspect something fishy

what could u posibly be suspecting??....

channelz:
But she ain't ugly only bony

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hmm

Airforce1:

:/

Stunning Nollywood actress Genevieve Nnaji shared these photos on her instagram page:cute..

I've read dis over nd over again....

wish i could meet her

Wizzy baby loke loke, See enjoyment! As
you look, remember today is wednesday

She Was Called The World’s Ugliest Woman, Now She’s An Inspiration.
Lizzie Velasquez, star of 'A Brave Heart,' gives her top tips for being confident.
As it turns out, the oldest advice in the book
is also the most effective. “You have to be
fully aware and confident that you are
enough just being you,” Velasquez said.
“That’s enough! You don’t have to live up to
anyone else’s standards, you don’t have to
look like anyone else, you don’t have to
compare yourself to anyone else. You being
you is enough, and you putting your
positivity and good vibes out into the
world, once you get to that point absolutely
everything will fall into place. Whether it’s
your personal life, your work life, your
school life, your confidence, everything will
fit once you believe in yourself.”
Roll with the punches.
“It’s been my style for so long to just roll
with the punches and whenever something
comes up you get, really, to just tackle it and
enjoy it,” she said. “I actually made up my
TED Talk as I was going. I had it planned for
three weeks, and as I was walking up
onstage I looked at [the TED organizers]. I
was like, ‘listen, don’t freak out. I just need
you to trust me, but I’m changing
everything we planned.’ She looked at me
with big eyes and took a deep breath and
said, ‘I trust you.’ So I walked up and told
myself to pretend you’re talking to your
best friend.” Velasquez’s TED Talk has
millions of views.
Love yourself.
“A few years ago I did this thing that I now
call the Love Yourself List, where I wrote
down everything that I love about myself,
whether it’s physically or my personality,”
she said. “I posted the list on my bathroom
mirror to where I would see it every single
day and I read it until I believed it instead of
just looking at the words. And every time I
would compare myself or doubt myself, I
would think of the list and think, ‘these are
the things I do love about myself. And over
time, the list worked and I believed it.”
Fake it until you make
it.
As a junior in high school, Velasquez’s
principal asked her to speak to 400 9th
graders about her experience. After she
gave the talk, however, she caught the bug
and wanted to become a motivational
speaker.
“I went home and googled ‘how to be a
motivational speaker’ and made a website
and jailed people and said if you need a
speaker, I’m your girl. I didn’t tell that that
I’d only done one speech ever and didn’t
know anything. I just wasn’t going to go
wait around for it. I taught myself…I’m not
going to wait until someone asks me to go,
I’m going to go, ‘here I am!’”
It’s OK to have bad days.
You SHOULD have bad
days.
“I make it a point to let myself have bad
days on a regular basis,” Velasquez said.
“There were many times when I wouldn’t
get it out of my system. I wouldn’t let myself
cry and wouldn’t sit in a quiet room and
just reflect or take my dog for a walk and
leave my phone inside. I wouldn’t do all of
those things and over time you just build
up and at a certain point it builds up and
explodes, probably at the worst time
possible. I make it a point to let myself be
sad today and say ‘why me’ and cry and
complain and leave my blinds closed, but
tomorrow, it’s done. Tomorrow, I’m not
going to feel sorry for myself, I’m opening
my blinds, I’m getting out of bed, and I’m
letting myself be happy. It’s worked! And
now I can’t picture myself not doing those
things because it’s what keeps me sane.”

JeffreyJamez:
See this one o

ahno get time for ur sickness sha......olodo

A few weeks ago the twitter feud between
Wizkid and Skales
was all the internet was buzzing about as
the two artists and former labelmates said
more than a few candid words about each
other.
In an interview with Vanguard Newspaper
however, Skales has explained that he
simply wants to move past that episode and
have people focus on his music.
He said:
We never really fell out; the
relationship we had has always
been about music. It’s not like
we are brothers. We are not
from the same family. Like I said,
it was just business and music.
So we were cool, and even till
now we are still cool. I have no
bad blood against him. I just
want to face my music right
now. I’m about to drop my
album and that’s all that matters
to me right now.
The truth is, we were not really
together. We were just at the
same venue at the same event
that’s all. And really, whatever
needs to be said now has
already been said on Twitter, so
you can pick everything there.
Right now, I’ve put the whole
episode behind me. I just want
people to focus more on my
music. In life life human beings
must always fallout.

Israel: Exit polls show near dead heat
UPDATED:Mar 17, 2015 21:28 GMT
Preliminary exit poll estimates released by Israel's three major broadcasters late Tuesday show an election too close to call.
Channel 2 Israel reports the Likud party, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has a slight lead over the Zionist Union, led by Isaac Herzog -- 28 seats, over 27 seats. Channels 10 and 1 show the two tied with 27 seats each.
The incumbent said his camp prevailed.
"Against all odds: a great victory for the Likud. A major victory for the people of Israel!" Netanyahu tweeted soon after the estimates were released.
The Zionist Union responded quickly, saying in a statement that the Likud party "keeps misleading."
"The rightist bloc has shrunk. Everything is possible until the real results are in, when we can know which parties passed the electoral threshold and which government we can form. All the spins and statements are premature. A negotiating team has been formed in an effort to form a government led by Herzog," it read.
Millions of Israelis cast their votes to determine their country's next Prime Minister and the makeup of its parliament.
Ballots are for political parties rather than individual candidates. Israel has a proportional representation system, meaning a coalition government is likely to be formed within its 120-seat Knesset.
CNN's Elise Labott described the early results as a stunning turnaround for Netanyahu, who took a sharp turn toward the right during the final days of the hotly-contested campaign.
"It seems to have worked. He seems to have energized that right-wing base and now he is neck-and-neck with Isaac Herzog, even inching a little bit ahead of him,"

JeffreyJamez:
Na so them dey carry like babe?

guy wetin be ur own na......dey for ur lane na...

lanicky:
Awww! U didn't introduce urself

sowi bae....uhm am new here,dont really knw hw it works here...mayb u'll teach me

lanicky:
Awww! U didn't introduce urself

uhmm...sowi bae....m new here....dont really know how things go on here....mayb u'll teach me...will u?

lanicky:
Awww! U didn't introduce urself

sowi bae...am new here.....dont really knw hw it works here....mayb u'll teach me...will u?

lawbabs:
your question is unintelligent...

nd ur statement can cause heart attack....always think of an attractive topic abg.....

lawbabs:
your question is unintelligent...

yours is mind blowing......u get luck say i no get heart attack....mtcheww

JeffreyJamez:
You know the babe from somewhere?

it doesnt matter....i like d babe na....shegbor

lanicky:
Uuuh?
I dnt think I know u

u knw me now bby.....m ur new friend

lanicky:
Welcome back guys....

I've missed u'all like kilode

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*sniffs* who else

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are u intelligent??....

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