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yak:
Oga Spyder, I was thinking u will include d plan of this house, as for the update on the spending, am very happy. if u can attach the plan, some of us will be happy

He has posted the plan. Check the beginning of the thread.

spyder880:
Welcome Everfrank. Lovely house there , they can add the plastic pipes to your house even before the decking, only problem will be passing it through the lintels now. wait till after the upper floor to look at other options to your roofing plan.

Thanks my Oga. Ill be interested to know the cost of your decking- how many tons of rod and bags of cement used in the casting, wood etc. Also is it wise to use counter lever to increase space on the upper floor? Thanks.

A second issue I have is the plan itself. It was made for me by a friend, a Julius Berger architect who didn't do a modern plan for me. Being a novice I didn't realize that the reigning separate roofing of modern buildings is established and determined from the foundation itself. He just drew a rectangle kind of a thing and the builders are saying that my roof has to be one big rectangular shape. Is there any amendment I can do to alter this? Pls I need help as I will commerce decking work. Thanks in anticipation.

More pictures

I am very glad that I jam this thread. Greetings to Oga spider and all contributors to this thread. I am also building a 5 bedroom duplex that is very similar to the one in progress.
I am also using 9 inches block on the ground floor with a few 6 inches that was used to partition a toilet and the kitchen. I have already added 3 couches of block on top of the lintel thereby finishing block work on the ground floor. My next undertaking will be the decking, which I am planning for seriously. I faced lots of challenges mostly through various and desperate attempts by my "supervisor" relations to inflate prices as I am far away from home.
Also the consultant I have made a mistake/omission in the DPP casting- the first work he did in my absence. He didn't do any plumbing work for the toilets. I noticed the 4" pvc pipes that you stand inside block holes in your initial pictures which I guess are for toilet.
I am very glad that I jam this thread. Greetings to Oga spider and all contributors to this thread. I am also building a 5 bedroom duplex that is very similar to the one in progress.
I am also using 9 inches block on the ground floor with a few 6 inches that was used to partition a toilet and the kitchen. I have already added 3 couches of block on top of the lintel thereby finishing block work on the ground floor. My next undertaking will be the decking, which I am planning for seriously. I faced lots of challenges mostly through various and desperate attempts by my "supervisor" relations to inflate prices as I am far away from home.
Also the consultant I have made a mistake/omission in the DPP casting- the first work he did in my absence. He didn't do any plumbing work for the toilets. I noticed the 4" pvc pipes that you stand inside block holes in your initial pictures which I guess are for toilet. They cast the DPP in my absence and he didn't mention any plumbing work for me. They said we can still fix it later. Please what are my options and how best to go about it?

She is a big girl and me think it's too early to declare her missing.

TheMoonChild:
This is clearly man made, it's lovely though

Yeah. No way God could have done this. Lol!

Came across this wonder and thought to share.

You are a fool to count the South south states as Biafra land.. Mind you Biafra or whatever you decide to call yourselves consist of only five states. You better get this fact into your head as we the people of the South south do not identify with any Biafra.
Our people never forget how during the brief reign of Biafra Igbos enslaved us and treated us as a conquered people. A clarion call is hereby made to all people of the South south- the Ijaws, the Itshekiris, the Ibibios , the Ikwerres etc to dissociate our land from these fraudsters and take our own destiny in our hands. We can be a Dubai on our own. These guys are fraudsters and not trustworthy as they are eying our oil as the basis for their Biafra. That's why instead of demonstrating in their land they chose to do it in our states.
Nigeria started on a good footing but for the Igbos and their greed. They brought the military into politics via the 1966 coup and the civil war of 1967-1970 thereby corrupting our democracy. They are equally responsible for everything evil in Nigeria today- from contraband to fake drugs, from Yahoo yahoo to kidnapping, from armed robbery to piracy, from stealing to baby factories just name it. We reject evil in its totality. People of South south be warned. If you shake hand with a leper he will embrace you and infect you with leprosy. Be warned!

Because:
Their body is a temple of God and
the world belongs to men.

Is this guy possessed?

dammytosh:
I just taya.

You are accused of stealing money.

Instead of coming out to say "i did not steal money"

You are going to court to say u should not be tried and it is amazing some people still support that nonsense

I taya too.

Congrats Sarah. Don't mind the bad belle people casting aspersions about your luck.

Sarahluv3:
l am Sarah M. Sarki by name, am currently living in Yola, I was born on June 15th 1985 in Zaria Depot Army barracks in Officers qauters.
The Man I believed to be my father FREDERICK WOYINKURO or FRED KURO was from Rivers State. he was staying in my grandfathers (captain Msheliza sarki) BQ in the officers qauters Deport Army barrack Zaria as of then.

Take your search further and you shall find him if he is alive. If he isn't you can still locate your siblings and family.
His surname confirms he is a riverine Rivers Ijaw man of Kalahari extraction. The KURO is a suffix used to form a compound name like Tamunokuro, Woyinkuro etc. among the core Kalabaris. Narrow down your search to the core Kalabari areas of Buguma, Degema, Abonnema and surrounding areas.
I suggest you circulate your case and the picture to the several "kalabari" "Buguma" "Abonnema" "Degema" groups on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other social media.
You need to be accepted into these groups though. That means you need to create your accounts in each of these social media then request to join these groups.

NB
I am sorry to say that the Kalabaris are highly tribalistic and prideful and as such you may not be accepted into such groups with your surname Sarki. If so you may need to create accounts with neutral Christian names.
Zaki Iya amfani da suna irin nasu ma. Kuma kiyi hankali akwai 'yan damfara sosai a dandalinnan. Kar ki yarda ki biya ko kwabo ga kowa don ya taimaka miki. Allah ya bada sa'a.

honourhim:
Rivers atate people behave like fools. Voting for WIKE even in the face of his evil.past records. So shameful of a people.

Wike tactfully fooled them to help him convert GEJ's presidential seat into the seat he now occupies while pushing the blame to Amaechi.

Decamp to APC.

FULL TEXT OF SIR OPUNABO INKO-
TARIAH’S RESIGNATION AS GOVERNOR
WIKE’S MEDIA AIDE
Sir, Let me start by thanking you for finding me
worthy of serving you, and the state in my
capacity as SPECIAL ADVISER on Media and
Publicity,for this i shall remain grateful.
However, with the unfolding developments, it is
irretrievable that my services are no longer
needed, and to this end, subterfuges are
employed to send the message across.
Sir permit me to dredge up the facts that plank
my conviction on.
For the first two Months i worked with you, not a
kobo was given to me as Impress/Overload.
Apart from paid advertorials and when you
briefed the press, every other publications were
done at my own cost. Infact, in most cases,
announcements made at your behest were paid
for by me or done pro- bono.
In the third month, you approved the sum
#5,000,000.OO(Five Million Naira) as monthly
impress. This was obviously grossly inadequate
compared to the pecuniary monthly obligations of
my office that gulped #4,800,000,00(Four Million
eight hundred thousand).These are obligations
inherited from the Rotimi Amaechi’s government.
Attached are how the payments are made to
bolster my assertions.
With this, i am left with #200,000.00(Two
Hundred Thousand Naira) to manage the press
for one month. There are times when journalist
who cover occasions in government house leave
without a kobo.
It is pertinent to also state for the records that no
time did i threaten to arrest journalist with
policemen. Even when i tried to explain, you
rebuffed me.
Furtherance have written several memoranda to
you on efficacious Publicity. All memoranda were
returned to me untreated have also attached
herewith such memoranda.
Sir, i resolved to work with you all my heart, but
what i got in return is gratuitous derision.
On several occasions after i noticed your hostile
attitude towards me, i approached you for
clarification and resolutions but was denied any
chance to speak, this prompted my fist
resignation move, after which you called and
cautioned and asked me to go back to work.
Things got festered from them on.
I fell in the bathroom and sustained several head
injuries, with the plaster on my head,i met you in
the office to explain things to you. All you said
was that i should go and treat myself. This was
about two months ago, sadly you have never
asked me about the injuries.
On Thursday October 22nd 2015,i had a close
shave with death on my way from Buguma as
assassins riddled “my car”. I sent you a text on
the development, but up till now you have never
called me to ask questions.
You got back from Abuja on Saturday, after the
Tribunal verdict only to spleen on me. Although
one may understand that given the Tribunal
verdict, you showed no concern at all after the
day of your broadcast. On the Sunday, you had
solidarity church service, i was with you in the
morning for the broadcast, on my way to the
church service felt dizzy and went home. Shortly
after i started vomiting blood. Emeka Woke(COS)
and the SSA on protocol were informed and they
rushed to my House. I was reliably informed that
you were briefed by Engr.Emeka Woke but did
not bother to know if i was okay or not. This is
bloodcurdling. My life means nothing to you,i
sent a memo to you for imprimatur to travel to
the United States for medical attention, without
asking for money. That memo has been on your
desk for about three weeks.
Sir, the climax of your disdain for me was the
rebuttal in which you dissociated yourself from
an innocuous statement made concerning the
judiciary and the verdict.
When you called me on Wednesday to express
your disapproval apologized profusely on the
phone with a promise that it shall not repeat
itself. You asked if i was actually with your or
not, and i said I was. This sincere assurance
could not placate you because of your mindset.
Thank God the likes of O.C.J Okocha, SAN saw
nothing wrong in my statement. The rebuttal was
a good opportunity for you to ridicule me in
public and show disapproval of my still working
with you. Your rebuttal obviate the need for
further evidence of your absolute loss of
confidence in me. This i failed to discern when
you ordered that i must not be a member of the
ONE HUNDRED DAYS IN OFFICE COMMITEE and
INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION COMMITEE.
Initially, you claimed the publicity on you was
poor and when it improved, you said i was only
popularizing myself, you saw nothing good in
anything i did. You called me and cautioned me
that you were always in the news. You further
said that most of us will know our fate after the
Tribunal.
On the white paper Press Briefing, it was
suggested that I brief the press(and rightly
too),but you spurred. The Issue is not my not
briefing the press but the contempt. Your
infectivity to my close shave with death
awakened reminiscence of when you said i can
go and Die with my father, when i coughed in
your office. You worked me out of your office,
saying “If i you want to die, go and die with your
father “. interesting! This was after you queried
why E.C AGUMA,SAN and I were close despite
the fact that my dad, the late Hon. Justice Chief
Opubo Inko-Tariah sentenced the late Chief
E.AGUMA to Death in the Ndabros matter.It was
even E.C Aguma,SAN who even corrected the
impression because my late dad never found the
Late Chief Aguma guilty and so never ever
convicted him.
The issue of your controversial visit to the CJN is
still green, you called me two weeks after(On the
Day PUNCH Published it online) to ask what my
reactions were and why queried why i was not
proactive. Tersely, I said i never knew of the visit
because you never told me although we were in
Abuja together or else i would not have pro-
acted. However told the Press the visit was to
resolve the thorny issue of a substantive CJ for
the state. Few days later, you said i told the
Press i was not aware and I replied that I never
did and that the statement was made to you
alone. All I told the press was that your visit was
to resolve the vexed issue of substantive CJ.I
never knew your allegations was only a veneer.
As a Special Adviser, I have no befitting to
accommodate my PAs and SAs yet i carried on.
Let me not bore you further with what I know you
dismiss as prolixity.
I sincerely advise that you give penetrating
thoughts to your leadership paradigm. The people
around you are people ready to die for your sake.
Do not dampen their spirits. They are but human
beings. Experience is Pre-eminent where advice
is ignored.
I conclude Sir, by once more thanking you for
opportunity and wish you God’s guidance and
blessings as i exit your government.
Thank you and God bless.
Your’s
Sir Opunabo .C. Inko-Tariah.LCIA.ACAIArb

http://www.ireporteronline.com/p10839_full-text-of-sir-opunabo-inko-tariahs-resignation-as-governor-wikes-media-aide

A 66-year-old man in India's remote
northeast has 39 wives, 94 children and 33
grandchildren, all living under one roof.
They all live in a four storied building with 100
rooms in a mountainous village in Mizoram state,
sharing borders with Burma and Bangladesh,
according to reports.
"I once married 10 women in one year," Ziona
Chana said.
His wives share a dormitory near Ziona's private
bedroom and locals said he likes to have seven or
eight of them by his side at all times.
The sons and their wives, and all their children, live
in different rooms in the same building, but share a
common kitchen.
The wives take turns cooking, while his daughters
clean the house and do washing. The men do
outdoor jobs like farming and taking care of
livestock.
The family, all 167 of them, consumes around
200lb of rice and more than 130lb of potatoes a
day. They are supported by their own resources
and occasional donations from followers.
"Even today, I am ready to expand my family and
willing to go to any extent to marry," Ziona said.
"I have so many people to care (for) and look after,
and I consider myself a lucky man."
Mr Chana met his oldest wife, who is three years
older than he is, when he was 17.
He heads a local Christian religious sect, called the
"Chana", which allows polygamy. Formed in June
1942, the sect believes it will soon be ruling the
world with Christ and has a membership of around
400 families.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8340679/Indian-man-with-39-wives-94-children-and-33-grandchildren.html

I was scribbling down notes on gender inequality,
when a niggling thought wiggled its way into my
mind and engaged me in an irritating contest. I
tried as much as I could to silence the irksome
taunt of the voice in my mind, but it stubbornly
refused to go away. It was on the controversial
stance of Apostle Paul, who in his effort to preach
Christ by every means possible, denigrated and
subjected women in his trick to making the Jews
accept Christ because of his knowledge of the
Jewish law on the female gender.
More also, taken from the fact I felt in my mind
that there was nothing substantiating the girl
child’s rights in the scripture as every Igbo man I
came across in this course, felt that God himself
made it so, and knowing too well that both
Christians and the traditionalists drew their
inferences from the Holy Book either by instinct or
knowledge – through God’s dealings with His
chosen race-Israel. I was so miffed that I broke my
pen.
The next morning, before the break of dawn, I
heard a faint voice saying, “Pick up your Bible”. In
my usual brazenness, I replied to the voice, “I
should just pick up the Bible and start reading from
Genesis to Revelation? What would I be looking for?
The rights of the girl-child? No, I’ll not do that.”
Then I heard something like a giggle. Thinking it
was my husband teasing me, I turned towards him
in irritation but he was fast asleep. I scolded myself
for being so touchy so early in the morning. Then, I
slept off. When I woke up again by daylight, I
reluctantly picked up my Bible and it kind of
opened arbitrarily to a chapter and my gaze was
directed to a portion where the girl-child’s right of
inheritance to be observed as a legal requirement
is illuminated. A smile of thanks coursed through
my face and a huge sigh of relief escaped from my
lips. I have found the missing link, I mused. The
girl-child’s rights which a patriarchal society
concealed under a restrictive tradition and religious
tyranny have been uncovered. Centuries of
repression and deprivation have been severed by
the awesome power of the faint voice of truth. The
revelation gave me a sudden boost to continue my
work on gender inequality, and this is the rationale
for my proposition to the eastern governors.
Much have been said and done in the emancipation
and empowerment of the girl-child in the areas of
education, freedom of expression, choice and
decision-making as pertaining to her life, marriage,
sexuality and pregnancy/child birth. But there is
yet an area that is left behind that will give
perpetual support and sustenance to these others.
Given the many obstacles and denigration the
female gender is facing in Igboland, it is imperative
a grass-roots approach be taken to solving the
issue of gender inequality: establishing the girl-
child right of inheritance by a legal act in the
South-Eastern states where tradition is clutching so
hard on the female gender.
The girl-child’s right of inheritance will serve as a
process of facilitating, enrooting and providing the
means for girls to overcome the denigration they
face to attaining full access to their rights.
The issue of gender inequality can only be solved
by giving the girl-child the same sense of belonging
and equal rights to her father’s properties as the
boy-child in our homes and society, and this will be
solving the issue of women denigration from the
root and also the problem facing widowhood,
mostly, the widows with only girl-child/children.
By this, strength, wisdom, power and positivity will
be instilled in the girl-child to restore her lost
confidence due to harmful cultural/traditional
practices. This will also serve as a key to
transforming her into a powerful woman and a
leader who is able to blossom in the fullness of her
potential.
But in a situation where only the girl-child exists in
a home, she should be the one to inherit her
father’s property, not her father’s brothers.
Observing the right of the girl-child as a legal
requirement is my proposition to the eastern
governors and passing it as a law will be the right
solution to solving the gender inequality in our
society from the root.
This will go a long way in giving the girl-child a
solid foundation and strong sense of belonging in
her father’s house, making her a strong and
respected woman in her husband’s house and
someone not to be trifled with, if, in widowhood.

Ada Chinyere Cummings
Igando, Lagos
08020558188
http://punchng.com/2015/11/4070

MKO4ever:
Is there a university in the prison or he was allowed to attend outside university?
If it was outside university, does it mean that Security guards will be around him so he doesn't escape or how was this possible?

Open University /distance learning. Many inmates in Nigeria are students of National Open University of Nigeria.

The Kantanka, a car made in Ghana The Kantanka is a car that was conceived, designed and made in Ghana. This brand of cars is probably the most promising of all the cars made in Africa right now. The Kantanka Automobile Company has announced that its cars will hit the streets in January subject to the Ghana Standards Authority giving the green light. The brains behind the car Apostle Dr Kwadwo Safo, the founder and owner of the Kantanka Group of Companies. Dr Kwakwo described as being naturally gifted, a genius, an inventor and a philanthropist.He has no formal or sophisticated technical background. He imagines, dreams and creates at will. He lives in his own world. http://howafrica.com/these-cars-were-designed-and-made-in-africa-by-africans/

How To Recover Deleted Files From Your PC
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At last, one Election Petitions Tribunal last
Saturday rose to the defence of Nigeria’s
democracy.
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike
The tribunal empanelled to determine the issues
and complaints that trailed the Rivers state
governorship election, headed by the very
Honourable Justice Suleiman Ambrosa, took a
clear departure from the onslaught his colleagues
in so many other governorship tribunals had been
mounting on Nigeria’s efforts to deepen her
democracy, with very laughable pronouncements.
In judgements that pretended that the matters
before them were about 2003 or even 2007
elections, the judges completely disrespected the
kernel of the historic 2015 elections: Card Readers
and INEC’s guidelines on their use.
In a jurisdiction where lots of judges had been
compromised by politicians in the past, it is
difficult not to conclude that many of the tribunals
sold justice to the highest bidder and thereafter
sought to tie their judgements to technicalities.
Take as example the same case of Rivers state
election tribunal. Justice Suleiman Ambrosa was
not the original chairman of the panel. It used to
be headed by a judge called Mu’azu Pindiga. But
he was later removed by the President of Court of
Appeal. (The Court of Appeal President is the
officer who constitutes members of state election
tribunals). And that removal was not for want of
what to do. Sahara Reporters reported that Mr
Pindiga was bribed by Nyesom Wike, the PDP
governor of Rivers state whose declaration by
INEC was being challenged by the APC candidate
in the election. That report by Sahara Reporters
stated that Pindiga was bribed with N200 million to
thwart justice and uphold Wike’s election. The
report also said that the Department of State
Security had a proof of this bribery, and they
showed it to the Court of Appeal President before
he got convinced to remove Pindiga as the tribunal
chairman.
Curiously, such publication bothers on defamation
of character, and a judge so accused, if innocent,
would be expected to seek redress in court.
Justice Pindiga hasn’t uttered a word since then,
which suggests admission of guilt. It is likely that
the evidence against him is weighty, and to save
himself further embarrassment, he took to silence,
hoping the news gets forgotten soon.
You can tell that if Muazu Pindiga had been
allowed to continue with the case, he would have
upheld Nyesom Wike’s election – adjudged by
both local and international observers to have
fallen short of every known standard for a free
and fair election. And in upholding it, he would
have had the law as an easy excuse. ‘The
petitioner could not prove his case beyond
reasonable doubt’. And as has always happened in
the past, the rest of us will be advised to look
elsewhere for whom to blame, that the law is an
ass, and that the justices of the tribunal did the
right thing.
Since the judgements started pouring in, one could
sense that some sections of the judiciary are
reluctant to cleanse themselves of their immediate
past; a past steeped in corruption.
It is inconceivable that with the success we made
of the 2015 elections, certain tribunals boldly
rejected a special recognition of the single factor
behind the success of that election.
When Justice Theresa Egoche of the Ebonyi
governorship petition tribunal was reading her
judgement upholding the election of the PDP
governor in the state, she made a strange
pronouncement that would have been laughable,
but for the seriousness of the matter. Her tribunal
held that the INEC electoral guidelines were mere
instructions and had no force of law against the
offenders/defaulters and as such cannot be a
ground to challenge an election. She noted that a
breach in the electoral guideline as alleged by the
petitioner cannot be a ground to nullify the
election.
In other words, INEC guidelines should be
discountenanced in an election that only INEC is
the only lawfully empowered institution to
organize. Nobody should bother to heed INEC’s
rules. If you can kill everybody to get elected,
please do; the courts are there to help you insist
that only the wordings spelt out in the Electoral
Act have the force of law. See how far people can
go in trying to justify the unjustifiable!
Apart from Justice Theresa’s pronouncement,
another tribunal of interest was that of Akwa Ibom.
Ishaq Umar of the governorship petition tribunal,
while reading his judgement of confusion, made a
pronouncement that reduced the card readers to
naught, dismissing INEC press statement that
mandated the use of card readers as the only
legitimate means of voter verification.
This judge declared before an open court, that
INEC’s ‘’press release concerning the card reader
report is null and void, as it offended (?) the
provisions of Section 49 of the Electoral Act which
deals with the process of accreditation in an
election.’’
Of course he went ahead to nullify elections in 18
out of 31 local governments of the state, but
remained silent on whether or not the governor –
who doesn’t have the constitutionally required 25%
of votes cast in two-third of the constituent LGAs
of the state – should vacate seat or not. In a state
with 31 LGAs, a governor needs to have scored
25% of votes cast in at least 20 Local
Governments, as well as the majority of valid votes
cast, before being declared winner.
Let’s ignore the error and move into his reasoning
of INEC’s guidelines being a nullity.
There are two issues here: INEC Press Release
concerning Card Reader use and provisions of
Section 49 of Electoral Act.
Now, the Press Release in question is the one by
INEC, emphasizing the content of its published
Manual For Election Officials wherein it insisted
that voter accreditation would only be performed
with the use of Card Readers. A judge declared
that null and void. And then his reason for so
doing was that it contravened Section 49.
First, the bedrock of voting is voter verification. If
a voter is not verified, how will an electoral officer
know that he registered in the particular polling
unit where he wants to cast his ballot? It is the
process of this verification that is called
accreditation. During accreditation, the
INEC presiding officer wants to first ascertain that
you are the true owner of your voter’s card and
that the Polling Unit where you intend to cast your
vote is actually where you registered to vote. INEC
also wants to make it impossible for people to
vote in more than one polling unit. In summary,
the idea was to institute the practice of one man,
one vote. To achieve this, INEC insisted, for the
sake of transparency, that it would perform its
accreditation with the help of technology.
And in doing that, INEC derived its powers from
Section 153 of the Electoral Act. Here’s what that
Section says; ‘The commission (INEC) may,
subject to the provisions of this Act, issue
regulations, guidelines, or manuals for the purpose
of giving effect to the provisions of this
Act and for its administration thereof.’
From the above, we can agree that INEC has the
powers to make guidelines.
Let’s then look at Section 49 which the Akwa Ibom
tribunal claimed INEC’s guidelines contravened.
49 (1). Any person intending to vote with his
voter’s card, shall present himself to a Presiding
Officer at the polling unit in the constituency in
which his name is registered with his voter’s card.
(2) The Presiding Officer shall, on being
satisfied that the name of the person is on the
Register of Voters, issue him a ballot paper and
indicate on the register that the person has voted.
There’s no provision as to ‘how’ to be satisfied in
this Section. INEC, with sixteen years’ experience
of voter verification had become certain that the
capacity of some Nigerian politicians for mischief
was limitless. The Commission had conducted
many elections that turned out to lack credibility
because of cases of impersonation during
accreditation. This led to their decision to
convince the Nigerian government to invest
massively in technology to aid in voter verification
during the 2015 election; hence the introduction of
Card Reader.
The card reader machine is a device used to scan
the Permanent Voters Card (PVC) to confirm its
ownership by the presenter. It stores the voter’s
information such as physical attributes, thumb
prints and others. These information can only be
read and accessed electronically
with the card reader. If you throw away the card
reader, the permanent voter’s card is useless,
because the information it has cannot be read/
accessed by just looking at it with your eyes.
It was for the purpose of giving effect to the
provisions of Section 49 that INEC insisted on
procuring the ‘’how’’ of satisfying their officers that
a voter’s name is in the voter’s register.
How then did the use of technology to verify
voters contravene a section of the Electoral Act
that gives INEC officers the powers to allow only
those verified as having their names in the register
to vote? How does enhancing the electoral process
contravene the Electoral Act?
And, in any case, what is wrong with the INEC
guidelines? Will any party in the election get hurt if
INEC properly accredits voters first before allowing
them to vote?
From the standpoint of the society, will it hurt
Nigeria to insist that only genuine voters be
allowed to vote? Why should anybody seeking to
govern any part of Nigeria have issues with INEC’s
rules insisting that only those properly accredited
will be allowed to vote?
To underscore the weight of the powers INEC has
to issue guidelines and rules for elections, the
Supreme Court in 2011, in the case between CPC
Vs INEC, declared; “By force of law, the
Independent National Electoral Commission has
the duty of conducting elections. Besides the
constitutional provisions, it is guided by the
Electoral Act, 2010 (as amended) and the Election
guidelines and Manual issued for its officials in
accordance with the Act. These documents
embody all steps to comply with in the conduct of
a free, fair and hitch free election.”
The Supreme Court has the final say on these
issues, and it already had said that in 2011. By
next year when these cases drag to the apex
court, the Justices there will be bound by the
earlier pronouncements of the same court. The
Supreme Court will not reverse itself, especially
when doing so will make mockery of the efforts of
the entire nation for democratic evolution.
Our yearnings for credible elections is facing its
final battle in the hands of the judiciary. It survived
the other two tiers of government before the
election. The executive under President Goodluck
Jonathan initiated it. The legislature approved of
it. Some elements in the judiciary are bent on
frustrating it. This is why the Supreme Court has a
duty to save the country from receding into the
dark days of massive electoral fraud by the
political class.
But while we await the apex court to play this
patriotic role, we must first thank the progressive
judges of the Rivers governorship tribunal for their
foresight and the courage to do the right thing. At
the end of the day, it will become clear to those
who still doubt the soundness of the judgement
that it was the best thing that happened to the
2015 elections, after Card Reader itself.
Chinedu Ekeke can be directly engaged on twitter
as @Nedunaija
https://secure.saharareporters.com/2015/10/27/if-you-love-credible-elections-then-you-must-thank-rivers-state-governorship-tribunal

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The man who impersonated an airport guard for 20 years Jerry Thomas was a 20-year veteran security officer at Newark Liberty International Airport. He was a model employee who had risen through the ranks to become a supervisor in charge of 30 other guards. The only thing was he wasn't Jerry Thomas. The security officer, known for 20 years as Thomas, was a Nigerian man with the name Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole. The actual Jerry Thomas was murdered in 1992, the same year that Oyewole stole his identity. So, how did Bimbo get away with being Jerry Thomas for long? I mean, you can't even bring a bottle of water into the luggage screening area let alone have an imposter use someone else's identity for 20 years working as a security officer, right? Well, FJC Security Services performed a background check. This background check depended almost entirely on fingerprint identification. Since neither Oyewole nor Thomas had ever been fingerprinted before, it was assumed that everything was fine. Oyewole also aced state and federal background checks. His former employer, FJC Security Services, said he had an unblemished record and had worked for three other security companies that had Port Authority contracts at the airport before working for them. When Port Authority Deputy Inspector General Michael Nestor confronted the false Mr. Thomas at his home in 2012, he “explained to him that he'd had a good 20- year-run, but that the gig was up.” Nestor said, “He thought about it and said ‘You're right'.” Oyewole pleaded not guilty to a charge of identity theft. (Source | Photo ) http://www.oddee.com/item_99488.aspx?

According to AIT breaking news eight ministerial nominees to be screened today Amaechi is third on the list.
Carry go the lion of Niger Delta.

You can always check your Bank Verification Number(BVN) by dialling *565*0# on your phone using the sim registered at your bank. The number that receives your alert.

Alamieyeseigha: UK High
Commission Denies Presenting
Extradition Request To Buhari

Former Baylesa Governor, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha died in a Port Harcourt Hospital on Saturday, October 10, 2015 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Pro-APC news media carried the news last week that the British Government had re-opened its case against Alamieyeseigha and extradition request had been made to President Buhari. To the extent that some of them, in announcing his death had mentioned that he died because he was fearful of
being extradited to the UK where he would have been jailed.
Sahara Reporters in an obituary for
Alamieyeseigha, Saturday reported , “The former Governor returned from Dubai recently as it emerged that the government of the United Kingdom requested his extradition over an
unfinished corruption and money laundering cases.
The request, which had been criticized by I jaw groups loyal to the former Governor, was seen as a political vendetta by the President Buhari Administration.”
These reports were ignited by the unearthing of a 2013 interview granted to Sun Newspapers by the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock, in which he said that Alamieyeseigha had
an outstanding case of money laundering to answer in the UK. “The former governor skipped bail in the UK on a charge of money laundering and returned to Nigeria. So, he has an outstanding
charge in the UK, which is there for him to
answer,” the envoy remarked.
“We have already discussed it and the Nigerian government knows our views. But we would like to see him return and answer the charge in the UK,” Pocock maintained in the interview granted when
former President Goodluck Jonathan was still in office.
APC chieftain and chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, was quoted in the media saying that “President Buhari-led government is prepared to assent to the request of the British Government as the United Kingdom has every legal right to demand for the extradition of the former Bayelsa
State Governor”.
Prominent Ijaw leaders and groups in reaction to Alamieyeseigha’s death have accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari of hounding the man whom his people
affectionately called, Governor General of Ijaw Nation, to death by pursuing after him to extradite him to the United Kingdom where he would face charges for crimes of which he had been convicted, jailed, and released in Nigeria.
Upon the death of the former governor and agitations from Ijaw groups and leaders that his death is connected to these reports, United Kingdom’s High Commission in Nigeria has swiftly
denied that its government had re-opened the case of money-laundering against Alamieyeseigha and that there was any request before Buhari to return the former Bayelsa Governor to the UK to face
criminal charges.
The High Commission called the reports “a rumour in its entirety” and there was “no renewed move to reopen the case” and said that the Nigerian media got carried away by the interview granted by the British Envoy to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock because there was a new government.
Excerpts from the ThisDay report below:
A senior officer of the Commission, who spoke confidently and on anonymity on telephone in Abuja, said the information is a rumour in its entirety, adding that the Crown Prosecution has not tabled any extradition request on Alamiesyeseigha,
to the High Commission.
While responding to whether it is true that that the Crown Prosecution Service of UK, has made any formal request for Alamieyeseigha’s extradition, she said the Crown Prosecution Service more often do
not often give or confirm information on such matters.
She however disclosed that there is no renewed move to reopen the case. “As you know, the immediate past High Commissioner, Sir Andrew Pocock, before he left Nigeria, had in an interview averred that the manner in which Alamieyeseigha
escaped from UK, made him a wanted a person.
“But as you know and with the new government of President Muhammdadu Buhari, in place, the media is presenting it as if the UK has said that we need this man. There is no such thing as moves for his extradition or of anybody or organisation to recall his extradition to UK,” she said. “Like you know, the
media find such issues interesting. They just jumped to and start publishing the way they like, without clarifications from the High Commission.”
In September 2005, Alamieyeseigha (then the Bayelsa State governor) was detained by the London Metropolitan Police on charges of money-laundering
http://www.thetrentonline.com/alamieyeseigha-uk-high-commission-denies-presenting-extradition-request-buhari/

Alamieyeseigha: UK High
Commission Denies Presenting
Extradition Request To Buhari

Former Baylesa Governor, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha died in a Port Harcourt Hospital on Saturday, October 10, 2015 after suffering a cardiac arrest.
Pro-APC news media carried the news last week that the British Government had re-opened its case against Alamieyeseigha and extradition request had been made to President Buhari. To the extent that some of them, in announcing his death had mentioned that he died because he was fearful of
being extradited to the UK where he would have been jailed.
Sahara Reporters in an obituary for
Alamieyeseigha, Saturday reported , “The former Governor returned from Dubai recently as it emerged that the government of the United Kingdom requested his extradition over an
unfinished corruption and money laundering cases.
The request, which had been criticized by I jaw groups loyal to the former Governor, was seen as a political vendetta by the President Buhari Administration.”
These reports were ignited by the unearthing of a 2013 interview granted to Sun Newspapers by the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock, in which he said that Alamieyeseigha had
an outstanding case of money laundering to answer in the UK. “The former governor skipped bail in the UK on a charge of money laundering and returned to Nigeria. So, he has an outstanding
charge in the UK, which is there for him to
answer,” the envoy remarked.
“We have already discussed it and the Nigerian government knows our views. But we would like to see him return and answer the charge in the UK,” Pocock maintained in the interview granted when
former President Goodluck Jonathan was still in office.
APC chieftain and chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, was quoted in the media saying that “President Buhari-led government is prepared to assent to the request of the British Government as the United Kingdom has every legal right to demand for the extradition of the former Bayelsa
State Governor”.
Prominent Ijaw leaders and groups in reaction to Alamieyeseigha’s death have accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari of hounding the man whom his people
affectionately called, Governor General of Ijaw Nation, to death by pursuing after him to extradite him to the United Kingdom where he would face charges for crimes of which he had been convicted, jailed, and released in Nigeria.
Upon the death of the former governor and agitations from Ijaw groups and leaders that his death is connected to these reports, United Kingdom’s High Commission in Nigeria has swiftly
denied that its government had re-opened the case of money-laundering against Alamieyeseigha and that there was any request before Buhari to return the former Bayelsa Governor to the UK to face
criminal charges.
The High Commission called the reports “a rumour in its entirety” and there was “no renewed move to reopen the case” and said that the Nigerian media got carried away by the interview granted by the British Envoy to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock because there was a new government.
Excerpts from the ThisDay report below:
A senior officer of the Commission, who spoke confidently and on anonymity on telephone in Abuja, said the information is a rumour in its entirety, adding that the Crown Prosecution has not tabled any extradition request on Alamiesyeseigha,
to the High Commission.
While responding to whether it is true that that the Crown Prosecution Service of UK, has made any formal request for Alamieyeseigha’s extradition, she said the Crown Prosecution Service more often do
not often give or confirm information on such matters.
She however disclosed that there is no renewed move to reopen the case. “As you know, the immediate past High Commissioner, Sir Andrew Pocock, before he left Nigeria, had in an interview averred that the manner in which Alamieyeseigha
escaped from UK, made him a wanted a person.
“But as you know and with the new government of President Muhammdadu Buhari, in place, the media is presenting it as if the UK has said that we need this man. There is no such thing as moves for his extradition or of anybody or organisation to recall his extradition to UK,” she said. “Like you know, the
media find such issues interesting. They just jumped to and start publishing the way they like, without clarifications from the High Commission.”
In September 2005, Alamieyeseigha (then the Bayelsa State governor) was detained by the London Metropolitan Police on charges of money-laundering
http://www.thetrentonline.com/alamieyeseigha-uk-high-commission-denies-presenting-extradition-request-buhari/

How did the airline prove she actually board the plane? CCTV footage or any biometric record or what?
Did somebody took her to the airport or did she found her way? If yes did this person actually saw her to the airport and confirmed she took the flight?
Was her ticket booked in advance or at the airport over the counter?
Who went to pick her up at the airport and how timely was he? Could he have gotten to the airport late(from arrival time of the flight) after she might have decided to find her way?
When was her last contact with anybody and where was she then?
You need answers to these and many more questions to figure out what actually happened. She cannot just disappear into thin air,unless if she was kidnapped by aliens mid flight. She may never have made the trip to Abuja. Someone else might have used her ticket. She might have faked the trip. She could still be in Lagos. Check her social media status, alternative phone numbers, close friends and other close associates.

Orjioorji:
if only Buhari agreed to represent Boko haram when they appointed him as their spokes person in negotiating with the federal government, by now boko haram would have been a forgotten issue but he refused because he is gaining from their attacks.

A thread for haters of our change. You can only deceive your gullible minds. The first thing that Jonathan did in office was to accuse Buhari, IBB and Atiku of forming and sponsoring Boko Haram. Had Buhari not turned down that "spokesperson" offer you wailing wailers would have roped him in and messed him off. But he was wiser than your incompetent president and all of you put together. Jonathan connived with known enemies of the North and nurtured Boko Haram into the monsters that they became with the sole intention of destroying the north to retain and rotate political control amongst yourselves. You have failed as you have rendered yourselves irrelevant in the scheme of things.
You better shun this propaganda lest PMB launch a full scale investigation into the gross human right violations committed in the so called war on terror. Then we shall see the real enemies of Nigeria.