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Pictures courtesy of Maher Mezahi @mezahimaher

Video: 14 year old Nigerian-American star, Lateef Omidiji Jnr speaks to NTA News about the preparation of the Baby Eagles for the tournament.

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Pictures courtesy of Maher Mezahi

Nigeria's U15 team, the Future Eagles (aka Baby Eagles) came from two goals down to claim a 3-2 triumph over Morocco courtesy of a brace from Devine Nwachukwu and a goal from Chidera Ejiofor in the ongoing African Youth Games in Algeria.

The comeback was inspired by Feyenoord U15 team's highest goal scorer, Lateef Omidiji Jnr, who provided two assists.

Their next game is on Saturday against Djibouti and then they play Libya on Monday.


Pictures courtesy of Maher Mezahi (https://mobile.twitter.com/mezahimaher/status/1020074782237364226)

Ishilove:
I think it must be some kind of sick joke

NAMBLA

Ishilove:
They also call it hoe

Shovel.

Ndonu101:
my dear this is nonsense

The secrecy is the reason our elections are shambles. if the results are announced at the polling units then the final result should be the sum of all the results announced at the polling units.

INEC should do more to encourage transparency. Disputing the results announced by the media is not the answer. INEC should learn to be accountable. Their attitude at the moment is giving room to changing the results at the collation centres!

This behaviour is quite primitive. The funny thing is all Nigerians know this is what politicians do and hence why INEC is disputing the results!

That's not the issue. The results are announced at the polling units. However, the law states who is legally empowered to announce the results at polling unit, ward, local government, state and federal level and these are done transparently. Anybody can document these announcements and get the results.

What the law is against is people manufacturing results and announcing these manufactured results in order to create chaos. Go through this thread and see the number of conflicting results that have been posted here. There should be one authentic result, rather than a hundred conflicting results.

Ndonu101:
INEC should go to hell

Serious countries announce results at the polling units and hence before electoral commission conclude their job media houses are able to sum the results and announce.

The final result by the electoral commission is not usually far off from that announce by the media

so why is our things always different? Why is INEC disputing results by social media before they even collate results

INEC is so corrupt! they are the reason for the madness we call elections!

greggng:
Because Nigerians are so gullible that's why fake news sell easily. So don't blame Inec they don't have luxury of time to be explain from time to time ....

Furthermore, Nigerians are very emotional. What usually happens is that some people release fake results, the people become worked up and then INEC releases its results and people end up rioting because of conflicting results. That's the reason that the law was originally put in place.

Announcement of election results

27. (1) The Results of all the elections shall be announced by-

(a)    the Presiding Officer at the Polling unit;

(b)    the Ward Collation Officer at the Ward Collation Centre;

(c)    the Local Government or Area Council Collation Officer at the Local Government! Area Council Collation Centre;

(d)    the State Collation Officer at the State Collation Centre; and

(2)    The Returning Officer shall announce the result and declare the winner of the election at-

(a)   Ward Collation Centre in the case of Councillorship election in the Federal Capital Territory;

(b)   Area Council Collation Centre in the case of Chairmanship and Vice Chairmanship election in the Federal Capital Territory;

(c)    State Constituency Collation Centre in the case of State House of Assembly election;

(d)  Federal Constituency Collation Centre in the case of election to the House of Representatives;

(e)    Senatorial District Collation Centre in the case of election to the Senate;

(f)     State Collation Centre in the case of election of a Governor of a State;

(g)    National Collation Centre in the case of election of the President; and

(h)    the Chief Electoral Commissioner who shall be the Returning Officer at the Presidential election.

http://lawnigeria.com/LawsoftheFederation/Electoral-Act,-2010.html

INEC has asked Nigerians to ignore results of the Ekiti governorship election that are being posted on social media. It says that it will announce the authentic results at the right time.

https://mobile.twitter.com/inecnigeria/status/1018205951625777155