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Thanks Lenny; the gifted one, can't wait to see scene 2

Gbenga! Gbenga!! Gbenga!!! e melo ni mope o, i dey laugh ohhhhh

Why should the Nation select only 4 out of the 6 questions thrown at Jonathan? Odumakin asked:

1) Can Mr President explain what happened to the case of N104m seized from Nancy Ebere Nwosu who allegedy swore to an affidat to the EFCC that she was laundering money for Dame Patience Jonathan?

2) What about the announcement by the then EFCC spokesman, Mr Osita Nwajah on September 11, 2006 that the sum of 13.5m USD was seized from another associate of Mrs Jonathan which the anti-graft body said belonged to the now first lady?

3) Any explanation on the several billions of Naira which DSP Alamiesegha left in Bayelsa coffers as at the time of his impeachment which was allegedy squandered in months by Jonathan without anything to show for it?

4) Who presided over the FEC meeting in October 2009 where a 4 km runnway at Abuja Airport was awarded for N64b?Late Predident Yaradua was already in Saudi Hospital as at the time!

5 What happened to the 30b USD Yaradua left in the excess crude account that is virtually empty now?

6 How come it is only Nigeria under Jonathan whose foreign reserve is depleting among oil producing nations at a time of all time high increase in prices of oil products?

Jonathan should answer for himself!

Lets go there, up BLUES

BY Tony Edike

ENUGU – WOMEN in Aku community, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State are now living in fear, following violent attacks by Odo masqueraders, which stripped two women in broad day-light for allegedly wearing trousers.

The scourge of the latest masquerade scare, which had raised security concern in parts of the state, according to sources, has become worse in Ugwunani village in Aku community, where a very dreaded Ocho-Oku diety linked to the Odo masquerade has been making life unbearable for residents, especially women.

A native of Aku told newsmen, that one of the two women stripped, whose name could not be ascertained was a visitor and that she was attacked at Eke Aku by the masqueraders, which completely removed her blouse and compelled her to pay a ransom of N1,700 to regain her freedom for wearing trousers in the area during the period of the Odo masquerade celebration.



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If only you believe you will surpace Facebook, Good work Seun

Fanta, lol

BB 2011, abeg give me your pin make i ping and vonte for you, sai BB

proudly9ja:
White house at Sabo

I love White house even Ben Bruce and his staff members (Silverbird) come to eat there

Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has this afternoon and presided by Justice Adamu Bello, held that the govs of Kogi, Bayelsa, Crossriver, Sokoto ad Adamawa will complete their tenures as governors in their states on 2012



http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/02/23/court-no-gov-polls-in-5-states-affected-states-kogi-sokoto-adamawa-bayelsa-and-criver/

Considering the enormous amount of money spent on purchasing DDC machin and now that Jega is contemplating to dumb it, i cry for my dear country

93 views and and just 8 wishes, what does that portend

What the heck with what the young man did, he was only carrying out his oversight function as a Minister of Youth and Sport afterall those girls are still youths. Dancing and drinking is a kinda sport in Rwanda, Beaf all the way

We should not because we have access to internet and start spewing rubbish about our leaders who have toiled relentlessly to salvage our democracy, not holding brief for Tinubu though, but when you take a holistic approach to the recognition ACN is acquiring you would but to align with Tinubu's view over whatever ACN as a party does.

This is a man who single handedly fought the almighty FGN and survived the storm. if he had not survived the dark days of Obasanjo in Abuja would you we be here talking about ACN imposing candidates as against electing candidate who did not even contribute in any way to the resurgence of ACN only because they have money to purchase the nominating card or whatever.

Tinubu cannot open his eyes and allow mediocre to take over ACN. He has worked with all and sundry and we will not be far from the truth if we say BAT made almost all the ACN stalwarts in S/W. He built leaders and not followers as we have in other political parties.

BRB

He is only trying to increase his post,

He is just trying to increase hi post

THOSE who died in the recent stampede at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium did not die in vain, says wife of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Dame Patience Jonathan, who spoke, weekend, in Port Harcourt, when she visited families of the bereaved, said the memories of those who died would continue to be celebrated by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Noting that they died for democracy, the First Lady said the Federal Government will not abandon the families they left behind.

Dame Jonathan, who travelled to the villages of the bereaved families, before visiting Government House, Port Harcourt, where she condoled with Governor Chibuike  Amaechi, also addressed the survivors of the stampede.

According to her, the victims of the stampede have paid the price for democracy in Nigeria.


Dame Jonathan, who also delivered a letter of condolence to Governor Amaechi, prayed for quick recovery of the survivors, and urged them not to be deterred by the incident, but to continue to support the PDP, Rivers State Governor and Mr President, who they came to identify with.

The First Lady prayed God to give Governor Amaechi the strength to bear the loss, stressing that the Governor has come to deliver Rivers people, and God would help him to deliver the state from the shackles of poverty and under-development.

Dame Jonathan had earlier visited the families of the late Mrs Ucheoma Wokama inErema, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, Late Mrs Caroline Enyindia, Ubima, in Ikwerre Government Area, Late Mr Felix Nwiaga, Leader of Tai Legislative Assembly at Botem Tai,  and Mrs Fanny Micah at Niger Street in Port Harcourt, where she sympathized with the families they left behind.

She assured them that the state and Federal Government would  support the bereaved families while regretting that those who died left at the time when they were most needed to translate the principle of one man one vote into action in the election process in the country.



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BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor & DAPO AKINREFON
LAGOS—THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was on the hot spot, weekend, as fury raged among opposition political parties after the commission confirmed that it would discard the N40 billion Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines during the forthcoming election.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in a sharp reaction said the decision to use a manual register was to help the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, rig the election across the country.

The commission is, however, insistent in its course saying that there is no provision of the Electoral Law that compels it to use the DDC machines during the elections.

Spokesman of Major General Muhammadu Buhari, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, faulted INEC for refusing to adopt the Open Secret Ballot System which he said would have totally eliminated rigging while at the same time saving the country the billions spent on the DDC machines.

Civil rights activist and Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre, PLAC, Mr. Clement Nwankwo, however, defended the commission saying that there was no provision in the Electoral Act compelling INEC to use the electronic machines during voting.

The ACN, yesterday, said it had uncovered a plan by INEC to discard the DDC machines during the forthcoming elections.

The party in the statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, warned that using a manual voter’s register would make it possible for those who had either engaged in multiple registration or purchased voter’s cards to rig the elections.

The party said apart from “ruining the polls, since whoever possesses a voter’s card can vote anywhere and several times, the use of a manual register will also mean that the millions of dollars spent on the electronic voter registration have gone down the drain.”

The INEC spent about N94.3 billion to register 65.2 million voters in the last voters’ registration exercise amounting to $10 dollars or N1446.32 per voter.

Compared with other democracies, spending about $10 to register a voter is high. The cost of similar exercises in Bangladesh, India, and Ghana is less than half of Nigeria’s. The Bangladesh Elections Commission compiled an 80 million voters’ register, using biometric face and fingerprint technology at a total cost of $65 million (N9.75 billion), amounting to a per voter cost of N121.88.

India, with a voting population of 714 million, completed its voters’ registration exercise at $0.56 per voter. With a voter population of 12.8 million, Ghana conducted its 2008 elections at the cost of $40 million, which amounts to $3 per voter.

Nigeria can only take solace in Malaysia, which spent RM2.23 million or $6.68 million to register 161,148 new voters in 1999 at the rate of $41.44 per vote.

However, Malaysia has a better economy and her people are better off than Nigerians in terms of income per capita.

Dangers in using manual register
Explaining how a manual register may be used by INEC, the party said if the electoral body failed to use the same DDC machines used to register voters at the various polling stations where they were used for the registration, it would be impossible to verify the fingerprints of each voter, hence he/she can vote as many times as possible.

Mohammed said: ‘’The voter registration exercise was designed to ensure that only qualified voters would register and vote. The fingerprints captured during registration are stored in the system of each DDC machine, since there is no central data base as we have said in earlier statements.

‘’On election day, the fingerprints of each voter are to be taken again and compared with what has been stored in the computer. If the record is found, the person is considered authentic and should be allowed to vote. Once he/she has voted, the record will be updated to reflect that, and that person should not be allowed to vote again in the same election.

‘’It is, therefore, absolutely important that the computer used during registration, which now contains the records of all voters registered at a particular polling station, must be brought back to the same polling unit on voting day to be used in the verification as indicated above.

If the computer is not brought back and used to verify and authenticate each voter, only the manual register would be used, even though the people will be made to believe the system is foolproof since they will still be fingerprinted anyway.’’

ACN warned that nothing short of the electronic voter’s register, backed by the same system used for the registration exercise to allow the authentication of voters, would be accepted during the April polls.

The party said the need to authenticate would_be voters at the various polling units has been made more urgent by the fact that the so_called AFIS software to detect double/multiple registration has been shown not to be foolproof due to the human factor.

No legal backing for e-voting – INEC
Countering, Mr. Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said the electoral commission did not say it would use the DDC machines and assured that what was in the manual register was a replica of what is in the DDC machines.

His words: “INEC never said it will use the DDC machines for election. The law does not allow INEC to use e-voting for now. There is nothing the commission can do about that. However, what is in the manual register is a replica of what we have in the DDC machine.

The fingerprint on the manual register is the same with the finger print in the DDC machine.”

INEC was backed by PLAC’s Mr. Nwankwo, who told Vanguard: “Those machines are not for voting, they are for registration of voters, they are not configured for voting, they are to obtain and store data.”

Buhari’s spokesman, Mr. Odumakin also faulting the INEC plans said “we believe we can overcome all these problems if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had done what we asked them to do from the beginning and that is the Modified Open Secret Ballot System.

“This was the same system that was adopted during the June 12, 1993 general elections. With that system, there is no way one person can be in two places at the same time.

Accreditation and voting will be done simultaneously throughout the country and as such no one person can vote twice in the same polling booth. That is what we are pushing for. We also urge all other progressives and Nigerians to push for the same thing.”


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TewMuch:


Wonders shall never end, Ijaw wetin. I see small Ijaw tribe is trying to boost their population. They jumped from Bayelsa to Lagos. Do they think we have riverine area's or how did they get to Lagos, through the large waves of bar beach? From this assertion is it not right to claim Ijaw as Yoruba? Afterall Yoruba have Ilaje, whose way of life is similar to Ijaw. We can reasonably say Ilaje is the parent tribe of the Ijaw, and they are Yoruba. Hence Yoruba own Bayelsa state? That should be the topic. Wetin join riverine and ocean people together?

I just hope Becomrich will not see this piece of trach of a post before corobarrating his post with map that Bayelsa (Ijaw), Edo, Benin, Delta and all Southwest should join Benin Republic

Apple founder Steve Jobs has lost alarming amount of weight and is reportedly sicker than has been previously admitted, reports the London Mails Daily.


http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/02/17/apple-boss-has-6-weeks-to-live/

If you look around the world you can see the importance of flags. As soon as you hear "death to America" in the so-called Arab street, the next thing that follows is the US flag in flames. When I was in Nigeria a couple of years ago, I went to visit my dad in the east of Nigeria. And flying all over Awka (capital of Anambra state) were Biafran flags (left), fluttering blatantly in the dry harmattan wind. So it came as no surprise when the Nigerian government arrested Ralph Uwazurike, the Biafran separatist leader. During the recent spells of civil unrest in the East, reports spoke about graffiti with the words, "this is Biafra, rejoice". People need to wake and see what the symbols are saying. I have the Biafran flag up as my msn messenger picture. I didn't do it because I support the break up of Nigeria, but because I believe that the issues which resulted in the Biafran Civil War still exist, and still threaten our "one Nigeria". I have the flag up as a reminder. But do people care? Do they heck.

If you look around the world you can see the importance of flags. As soon as you hear "death to America" in the so-called Arab street, the next thing that follows is the US flag in flames. When I was in Nigeria a couple of years ago, I went to visit my dad in the east of Nigeria. And flying all over Awka (capital of Anambra state) were Biafran flags (left), fluttering blatantly in the dry harmattan wind. So it came as no surprise when the Nigerian government arrested Ralph Uwazurike, the Biafran separatist leader. During the recent spells of civil unrest in the East, reports spoke about graffiti with the words, "this is Biafra, rejoice". People need to wake and see what the symbols are saying. I have the Biafran flag up as my msn messenger picture. I didn't do it because I support the break up of Nigeria, but because I believe that the issues which resulted in the Biafran Civil War still exist, and still threaten our "one Nigeria". I have the flag up as a reminder. But do people care? Do they heck.

This Tinubu na bad man, because GEJ come from riverine arear and that is no other proffession there but to dey catch fish , i laugh like OBJ

The DDC machine simply to put is just a laptop that has a software for registration on alongside other hardware as biometrics and finger print scanner. I usd the same machine equipment in my office and we have never refered to it as DDC machine.

Wild Wild West

Odechukwu Jonathan is only prolonging the evil day. Whether or not he likes it he will engage himself in a debate with the likes of Ribadu, Buhari et all in a presiential debate when the time comes. Trust Ribadu he would raise all the salient issues his government has been dodging.

Chei!!!!!!! Neither Niboro nor Beaf would be there to help him out, but sha before then i dey laugh

Acidosis:
the same thing happened in kogi state some weeks back. The governor of the state suddenly changed the proposed location of the university from Kabba to Lokoja.

In the case of Ekiti, the gov is not aware of the sudden change

Could this have been the way Jonathan intends to paint the S/W ACN Govs rascal, having named a location for a federal university in the state earlier? Without recourse to state gov you turned to rename another location knowing full well what such a pronouncement portend to sensitivity nature of Ekitis, the fountain of knowledge, alas Nigerians. Am ashamed of GEJ that lives were lost to the protest.

Could this have been the way Jonathan intends to paint the S/W ACN Govs rascal, having named a location for a federal university in the state earlier? Without recourse to state gov you turned to rename another location knowing full well what such a pronouncement portend to sensitivity nature of Ekitis, the fountain of knowledge, alas Nigerians. Am ashamed of GEJ that lives were lost to the protest.

It was a narrow escape for Miss Christiana Enechejo Paul, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member after she was mistake for an antelope and shot at by her landlord in the village, Ogoja in northern Cross River State,


http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/02/09/youth-corper-shot-mistaken-for-antelope/

For this gesture, BRF has my vote

A 'Rascal Gov' has come to the rescue, BRF2011 carry go, Eko O ni baje