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Xzbit91:
Dont you know what health control mean?

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, has concluded a briefing meeting with 25 civil society groups in Abuja Saturday informing them that all security agencies in the country have indicated to him, in writing, that they are not available to support the elections planned for February 14 and 28.
Mr. Jega, who had an earlier meeting with political parties, is rounding up another meeting with his 36 resident electoral commissioners now on what will amount to an INEC position on whether to postpone or go ahead with the elections.
Insiders at the meeting said “its pretty much a done deal at this point that the elections will be postponed” and many of the attendees told PREMIUM TIMES they were shell-shocked and depressed at what they characterize as “a clear case of political blackmail of the state against civil society”.
Jibrin Ibrahim, a leading African election expert and senior fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, in Abuja, who was at the meeting, said Mr. Jega told the meeting that security operatives from all the agencies told INEC that they were commencing a six weeks special operations against Boko Haram insurgents in the north eastern corridors of the country and would rather not be distracted by the elections.
Mr. Jega announced that the security forces also said the operations are due to commence on February 14, the date INEC had planned for the presidential and federal legislative elections.
This decision, by the security forces, successfully renders INEC’s hitherto insistence to go ahead with the elections a risky venture.
To even collect ballot papers from their storage in the Central Bank of Nigeria for the elections will require security escort, which apparently is now unavailable in the light of the move by the security forces.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/176422-cant-proceed-election-jega.html

Two people said they were shot at but the bullets did not pierce them.

jasper7:
3,000 per acre

killuminati:
Is anybody watching and listening to PDP presidential rally right now in Kano? I was shocked to my bone when I heard one man named Jafar who Governor Lamido of Jigawa State said is his boy.. The man (Jafar) came and started saying that Buhari is following Christians to the church to pray that Buhari is not a true Muslim etc. He to the crowd not to vote Buhari cos he has betray Islam. And the same PDP is saying Buhari will Islamise Nigeria. What's really happening?!

haftob:
Following keenly!

And to the mods, this thread must NOT be on the frontpage, if u can't spend ur time wisely to search for things lyk dis on NL, then u don't worth seeing dis type of info.
Don't get me wrong,I'm nt being selfish, just dat some things shud just be the way they shud be.

FastShipping:
LIARS!

Buhari supporters indeed. I did not see any APC or Buhari supporters in the video. I only saw youths who have problem seeing PDP bus. The youths were angry to see bus of a party who has brought misery on them for 16 years. A party who has failed to provide them security against Boko Haram.

Below was what happened to Buhari and APC supporters in Port Harcourt on Monday.

LogicPower:
The part in bold is the grim reality that you would be faced with whenever you attempt to compare life in Nigeria and in those poor European countries and, to a large extent, some Asian countries like China, India, Malaysia and Thailand, and African countries.

As you rightly observe, many Nigerians like yourself might be considered, on one on basis, as living a far better life than over 20% of people in those EU countries and over 50% of people in Asian countries. Yet those same people have far greater and freer ACCESS to modern public infrastructure and basic amenities such as good roads, hospitals, uninterrupted electricity, clean portable water and security than most Nigerians.

I think even an average city dweller in an African country like S.Africa, Egypt, Cabon, Morocco, Tunisia, and others, enjoys far greater and better ACCESS to these public infrastructure and social amenities than an average middle class Nigerian.

I have not been to any of these African cities but I do not think power generators, for instance, are as part of their daily life as they have become part of the daily life of an average city dweller in Nigeria, including an apparently well-to-do people like you.