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Nigerians celebrities, Tiwa Savage and Toyin Abraham show off their PVC at their polling unit in Lagos.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/tiwa-savage-toyin-abraham-show-off.html

Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna seen waiting on queue to Cast his votes at his polling unit.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/governor-el-rufai-queue-to-cast-his.html

10 youths have been arrested from different locations in Bende local government of Abia State, over allegation of attempting to snatch ballot boxes.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/10-youth-arrested-for-attempt-to-snatch.html

The PDP ranting machine and former aide, Reno Omokri who is known for releasing top politicians, leaked has set to release new Tinubu leaked tapes where he blasts the Igbos.

He asked for 2,000 retweets on Twitter before he can the tapes.

He said:

In Part 1 of #TinubuTapes, Asiwaju Tinubu boasts that he is richer than the whole of Osun State. He also brags that he is SINGLEHANDEDLY sponsoring Buhari’s election. From where did he get the money?

RETWEET if you want to hear Part 1. I will release it I get 2000 retweets

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In the #TinubuTapes, @AsiwajuTinubu calls Igbos ‘awon okoro”! Are these the types of leaders Nigeria needs? We need leaders who love all, irrespective of tribe and religion, who loves the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Fulani

RETWEET if you are ready for Part 1 of the Tinubu Tapes.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/reno-omokri-set-to-release-tinubu.html
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The US consulate in Nigeria has reacts to the postponement of Nigeria February 16 General Elections.

In a statements from the US Consulate General to Nigeria that was made available to MEDIAHELM NEWS, he said 'US ecourage Nigerians to ensure Free, fair and credible election by supporting the INEC while it finalizes electoral preparations'.

The U.S. Embassy fully supports the joint statement by the heads of the ECOWAS and other international election observation missions on the postponement of the February 16 Nigerian elections.

We join in encouraging all Nigerians to ensure a free, fair, peaceful, and credible election by supporting the Independent National Electoral Commission while it finalizes electoral preparations this week and by voting in peace together on February 23.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/us-reacts-to-postponement-of-general.html

Former Governor of Edo state, Lucky Igbinedion, lost his second son, Osaretin, to the cold hands of death this morning February 16th. According to family sources, Osaretin died in a fatal accident in Dallas. He was driving with his cousin, Esosa Oyemwense, when they collided with an 18-wheeler at about 3am. They both died. So sad!



Osaretin graduated from the University of Pittsburgh's College of Business Administration with a degree in marketing, and a minor in economics. He also bagged a Masters degree in International Management from the Northeastern University.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/former-edo-state-governor-lucky.html

INEC really disappoint Nigerians.

People who shifted their party to on the 23rd of February will be like: So na INEC my village People take use tey get me?

The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu has speak about the postponement of the 2019 General Elections while he was briefing the foreign observers in Abuja. Reveals it's next plans

In a statement made available to MEDIAHELM NEWS, he said:

About thirteen hours ago, I conveyed to Nigerians the decision of INEC to reschedule the 2019 General Elections by one week. Presidential and National Assembly earlier scheduled for 16th February 2019 will now hold on Saturday 23rd February 2019 while Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council Elections scheduled for 2nd March 2019 will now hold on Saturday 9th March 2019.



The one-week adjustment was a painful one for INEC but necessary in the overall interest of our democracy.



Nigerians will recall that when this Commission was appointed in November 2015, we promised Nigerians two cardinal things. First, we shall work hard to consolidate the improvements made in the management of elections in Nigeria since 2011.

Secondly. we shall always be open transparent and responsive. We have strived diligently to keep these promises in very trying circumstances.



3. In keeping with our promise to consolidate the gains of the last two electoral cycles, the Commission has conducted 195 rerun and off-season elections across the country since the last General Elections Most of these elections have been generally adjudged to show progressive improvements in planning, execution & outcomes.This commitment to continue to improve on election administration has informed our preparations for the Eelctions.



Our goal is to plan carefully, execute meticulously& bring stability into election management in Nigeria.Consequently, we announced fixed data the elections in Nigeria to d effect that Presidential& NA elections will always hold on the 3rd February Saturday of an election year.


while the Governorship and State Assembly elections follow 2wks later Having settled this,we began the planning quite early, with a Strategic Plan (SP),3 Strategic Progm of Action (SPA) & an Election Project Plan (EPP)In fact, the plan for the 2019 GE was ready in November 2017

and we subsequently issued the timetable and schedule of activities for the elections over one year ago on 9th January 2018. We carefully followed the timetable and implemented l3 of the 14 activities as scheduled.

We kept to the timeframe and have not missed d date fixed for any single activity.
5. In preparing for d2019 general elections,we have come face-to-face with the realities of conducting such an extensive national deployment of men and materials in developing Countries like ours

It is said that elections constitute the most extensive mobilization of men & materials that any country could undertake in peacetime.The challenges of doing so, even under d best of circumstances,are enormous.Within a period of 16 months, we registered over 14 million Nigerians.

as new voters, collecting their names, addresses, photographs & their entire ten fingerprints. Beyond that, we prepared, printed & delivered their permanent voter’s cards for collection. 1 should note that of the 14.28 million Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) made

to serve as ad hoc staff, the magnitude of materials mobilized for our elections is enormous. For instance, the Commission has printed 421.7 million ballot papers for six scheduled elections, as well as 13.6 million leaves of result forms for the Presidential election alone.

Indeed, managing 91 political parties and 23,316 candidates for whom votes will be cast in 119,973 polling units by over 84 million voters is certainly astounding. No doubt. Preparations for the 2019 general elections have been extremely tasking for the Commission.

It is there4 not unexpected that such a tremendous national mobilization of men&materials will encounter operational challenges& we have had our own fair share of such challenges. There has been delays in delivering ballot papers & result sheets 4 d elections which is not unusual

However, l must emphasize that all the ballot papers and result sheets were ready before the elections despite the very tight legal timeframe for finalizing nomination of candidates and dealing with the spate of legal challenges that accompany it.

In this regard, the Commission has been sued or joined in over 640 court cases arising from the nomination of candidates. As at today, there are 40 different court orders against the Commission on whether to add or drop candidates.

Unfortunately, in the last one week. flights within the country have been adversely affected by bad weather. For instance, three days ago, we were unable to deliver materials to some locations due to bad weather.

We therefore had to rely on slow-moving long haulage vehicles to locations that can be serviced by air in spite of the fact that we created five zonal airport hubs Abuja (North Central), Port Harcourt (SSand SE), Kano (NW) Maiduguri and Yale (North East) and Lagos (South West)

to facilitate the delivery of electoral logistics.
8. Apart from these logistical challenges, we also faced what may well be attempts to sabotage our preparations. In a space of two week. we had to deal with serious fire incidents in three of our offices in Isiala Ngwa South LGA

Of Abia State, Qu‘an Pan Local Government Area of Plateau State and our Anambra State Office at Awka. In all three cases. serious disruptions were occasioned by the fire, futher diverting our attention from regular preparations to recovery from the impact of the incidents.

In lsiala Ngwa South, hundreds of PVCs were burnt, necessitating the recompiling of the affected cards and reprinting in time to ensure that the affected voters are not disenfranchised.

I am glad that all the cards were quickly reprinted and made available for collection by their owners.
9. ln Qu'an Pan Local Govemment Area. our entire office was razed, destroying all the materials prepared for the elections printed register of voters, ballot boxes,

voting cubicles and several electricity generating sets. ll Registration Areas and over IOO polling units were affected by the fire. We recovered quickly and have since replaced everything destroyed. In addition, we secured a suitable building from which to conduct the elections

Perhaps the most serious was the fire incident in our Anambra State Office at Awka, which destroyed over 4,600 Smart Card Readers being prepared for the elections. These Card Readers take at least six months to procure.

Despite this setback. we have practically recovered from this by mopping up every available spare SCR across the country and within 24 hours delivered them for elections to hold in Anambra State.

11. All these challenges mean that then: have been differences in preparations from one State to another. Our overall assessment is that if the elections went on as planned, polls will not open at 8am in all polling units nationwide.

Yet,we are determined that polls must hold at the same time everywhere in the country. In this way, elections will not be staggered.This is very important to public perception of elections as free,fair&credible.We promised Nigerians that we shall be open transparent & responsive

12. Faced with these challenges, we initially thought that we only require a maximum of 24 hours to resolve the logistics issues involved and complete our deployment for the election. This would mean shifting the elections to commence on Sunday 17th February 20l9.

However, given d restriction of movement during elections, that could affect many votes who worship on Sundays.While the Commission was considering the following Monday 18th February 2019 as an option, our lCT Department advised us that it would require 5-6 days to reconfigure..

about 180,000 Smart Card Readers earlier programmed to work only on election day Saturday 16th February 20l9. It is for this reason that the Commission decided to adjust the election dates to Saturday 23rd
February 2019 for Presidential & NA elections and a consequential

adjustment of Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council elections to Saturday 9th March 2019.
13. Some sensitive materials have been distributed. However, all such materials have been retrieved and will be taken back to custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

I want to assure you that there will be proper audit to account for all materials.
14. In the next few days, the Commission will work on the basis of the following plan:

1. Completion/confirmation of deployment; Monday l8th February 2019 of materials
2. Configuration of the Smart Card Readers; Sunday 17th Thursday 21st February 2019
3. Receipt and Deployment of sensitive; Wednesday 20 and materials to LGAs Thursday 21st February 2019
3. Receipt and Deployment of sensitive;Wednesday 20 & materials to LGAs Thursday 21st February 2019
4. Refresher training for ad hoc staff;Thursday 21st February 2019 5. Deployment of personnel to RACs Friday 22nd of February 2019
6. Election Day Saturday 23rd February 2019.

I want to appeal to Nigerians& all other stakeholders for their understanding in what has been a very difficult decision for the Commission. But we believe that ultimately this is for the good of our democracy&country.i wish to assure you of our commitment to free, fair&Credible

As Chairman of INEC, and on behalf of the Commission, we take full responsibility for what happened and we regret any inconvenience our decision might have caused.
17. Thank you and God bless.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/mahmood-yakubu-issue-statement-on.html

People wey postpone their party to 23rd of February will be like:

Benaiah Monday has died on his way to Dubai, where he was expected to undergo a major heart surgery.

His story caught national interest after a video of his distraught dad soliciting for help for him in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, went viral.

About 48 hours after the video hit the internet, Nigerians rallied around to donate over N70m towards his surgery.

However, it was gathered that brave Benaiah lost the battle, this morning in Lagos, while going for the surgery. He was rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, where he was confirmed dead.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/sick-baby-benaiah-dies-on-his-way-to.html

Everything INEC is doing is in favour of Buhari.

If you don't know, you will never know Nigeria politics

PDP ranting machine and former aide, Reno Omokri land's in Nigeria ahead February 16 election to support PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubarka.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/reno-omokri-lands-in-nigeria-to-support.html

Photos: 44-year-old man arrested for allegedly raping 6-year-old girl in Ogun
44-year-old, Rafiu Moruf, has been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command, for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s six-year-old daughter at their home located behind Aferiku Secondary School, Idiroko in the state on Monday February 11th.

A statement released by the spokesperson of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the victim opened up to her mother after she noticed her daughter's awkward movement.

“Upon close examination, the woman discovered semen inside the girl’s private part. She questioned the girl and she revealed that the suspect took her into his room and had carnal knowledge of her. The woman reported at the Idiroko Police station and detectives went to the suspect’s house where he was promptly arrested.

On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the commission of the crime. The victim has been taken to hospital for medical treatment and report'' Oyeyemi said

The statement added that the state Commissioner of Police Ahmed Iliyasu has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to Anti Human trafficking and Child labour Unit of the State Criminal investigation and intelligence Department (SCIID) for proper investigation and prosecution.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/police-arrest-44-year-old-man-for.html
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja zonal office, Wednesday said it has arrested 10 suspected internet fraudsters, following intelligence report of their suspicious activities.


EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja said the suspects are, Triumph Chikwendu Madumere, Success Chukwumazu Obasi, Jamila Shuaibu, Bright Idumwonyi Osaigboko and Obasi Wisdom.

Others are Idemudia Emmanuel, Sandra Alang, Stanley Ohiaeri, Samuel Tochukwu and Ikechukwu David Ohiaeri.


They were reportedly arrested at Karu and Mpape settlements of Abuja, on February 7.

Items recovered from them include three Mercedes Benz cars, five laptop computers, 10 handsets, ATM cards and other incriminating documents.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/efcc-nabs-10-suspected-internet.html

EFCC has secured the conviction of Obinna Udoji, a graduate of the Department of Building Technology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, for a $9,654 fraud.



He was arrested by operatives of the EFCC on January 7, 2019 following intelligence report that he fraudulently obtained money from one Alina Ruso, which he claimed was to be invested in a company, Zenith Margin, which turned out to be false. He was subsequently arraigned before Justice A.O. Onovo of an Enugu State High Court, for the offence of obtaining money by false pretence, to which he pleaded “guilty”.



The trial judge, however, asked the prosecution led by Innocent Mbachie, to present its witness, “in order for the court to hear the facts of the case”. Thereafter, a prosecution witness was called, who narrated how an intelligence report was received by the EFCC, which led to the investigation and arrest of Udoji.



Tendered as evidence, were the intelligence report, statements, bank statements, scanned emails from Udoji’s computer and emails from the EFCC to the victim to establish the case, including Udoji’s application for plea bargain.



Mbachie, further told the court that Udoji had returned the money to his victim, and urged the court to “convict him in accordance to Section 367 subsection 8, 9 and 10 of the Administration of criminal Justice Act”.



Defence counsel, T.U. Nweke, pleaded with the judge to “temper justice with mercy” as his client was a first-time offender and an orphan. Justice Onovo, on February 7, 2019 sentenced him to one year in prison, noting that, “I took cognizance of his plea and his restituting of the total sum to the victim”.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/university-graduateobinna-udojibags-one.html
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What concern Biafla Dilector with Nigeria matter.

Weeks after Nollywood actress Funke Akindele and her husband welcomed a set of twins, the prophet who claimed that the actress is only destined to be rich and childless, has broken his silence.

In an interview in 2018, Prophet Faleyimu Olagoroye had claimed that one of the conditions for Akindele to become a mom was to marry a gateman.

However, in a new interview with Yoruba Movie Gist, Olagoroye revealed that the actress had her babies through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and not through biblical methods.

His words:

“When she delivered twins, I read people’s comments on social media that I am a prophet of doom. Remember I said she should pray very hard if she must have a child because she chooses wealth above children when she was coming to this world. .

One of the things I said was that she should go for a deliverance and she should ask God with her mouth what she want, not to go to pastors or prophets for prayers. .

If I pray for her to have a baby, no miracle will happen, the only thing she can do is to pray with her mouth or she get married to someone who is not up to her standard. .

Then, when she is pregnant, her wealth will be reducing. After she delivered, it was revealed to me that she got the baby through IVF. If she had followed any of the 3 solutions I gave her, she would have been pregnant naturally. .

People should read Genesis 25 vs 21-26, Genesis 3 vs 9-24, Genesis 17 -21, and 1Samuel 25-28, you will see people who are looking for the fruits of the womb from God and see how God answered them naturally, not through scientific method. .

It is only the people who can’t conceive naturally that Doctors will advise to go for IVF. Meanwhile, IVF is 50/50, not everyone that does it ends up with babies. It is a scientific method which is not in the Bible. .

Jesus Christ was born through Holy Spirit not IVF and there is no other miracle like that after him. IVF is not for poor people, it is for the rich who can afford it.”

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/prophet-who-said-funke-akindele-has-to.html
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Instagram users blasts Nigerian Police man for speaking Bad English.

The Police man was recorded during "stop and search" asking the car driver about the person in his car. He said: "Who are you to him, to she or he or Her"

Watch the viral video here and see some reactions below.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/who-are-you-to-him-to-she-or-he-or-her.html
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Lagosians are angry online after all the tankers and containers that usually cause traffic gridlock on the bridges on Ikorodu road mysteriously disappeared for the second time this year.



The first time they were cleared was for the Lagos City Marathon last week and now, the road is once again clear and free ahead of President Buhari's visit to the city for the APC rally tomorrow.

Watch the video here shared by Twitter users

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/more-reactions-as-trailers-disappear-on.html

Rip to the dead. We've already seen it on FP

Watch Video HERE
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A man who claims to be the groom's friend posted the photos but refused to mention the state.

"Just coming back with a friend from one state in Nigeria for her wife bride price, I don't want to mention the state name but by the items below u shall no them. That why I like IMO state they don't behave like this intense of bride price i don't call nameoooo
Thank to almighty for a successful ikpanri and bride price.....
Congratulations friend, but I feel ur pain's sha
May God bless ur new home bro

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/see-large-number-of-items-nigerian-man.html
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Oya, make una come lie

somegirl1:


This is the real story
https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2019/2/photo-two-nigerian-nationals-arrested-with-fake-indian-currency.html

Op made up the names

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Thousands of fans have taken to Twitter to list Wizkid’s achievements under the hashtag #WorldWizkidDay.

News Agency of Nigeria reports that #WorldWizkidDay is the number two trending topic on Twitter at the time of this report with fans eulogising the ‘Ojuelegba’ singer.

The trend started after videos of his interview with a US radio station went viral. The hosts of the show were starstruck and attempted to take photographs with Wizkid while the interview was ongoing.

Following that, more videos of his career milestones flooded the timeline. These included his O2 show, his major interview as an upcoming artist, his iconic visit to a racially diverse London high school and his declaration at Minnesota.

Fans also took the opportunity to share their most iconic Wizkid moments, best songs from the singer and the traits he is most loved for.

@Mistamd001 tweeted, “Till date Ayo still remain the best selling album in Africa. Stfos still remain most stream album outa Africa.#WorldWizkidDay”

@Itzbassito said, “Wizkid’s SFTOS EP peaked at no 107 on Billboard hot 200 album chart. It’s the third Nigerian album to ever appear on Billboard hot 200 album chart. The other albums to ever appear there are KSA albums.#WorldWizkidDay”

@ItzKing_noni said, “Do u know that Wizkid is the only African artist that has more than 200 HIT songs, I mean HIT songs not just songs. “HIT” take note of the “HIT” #WorldWizkidDay”

@IsimaOdeh tweeted, “Chris Martin of Coldplay, a 7-time Grammy Award winner saying watching Wizkid perform is a dream come true, which made him cry. #WorldWizkidDay”

@Itzbasito wrote, “Wizkid was paid $150,000 for his performance at 2017 GLO CAF awards in Ghana. He only performed for 4mins 55 seconds #WorldWizkidDay”

The music star is also the first African artist to walk the runway at a Dolce and Gabbana fashion show while his music `Soco’ played at the background.

Wizkid started recording music at age 11 and managed to release a collaborative album with the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed.

Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/02/world-wizkid-day-fans-eulogise-music.html

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