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The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega has said that his Commission was set for the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 14, but the national security adviser, retired Colonel Dasuki Sambo, and the service chiefs forced them to be postponed to March and April. Jega spoke when he appeared before the Senate to demonstrate the workings of the Permanent Voter Cards and Card Reader Machines. Jega said both electoral instruments are in accordance with the Electoral Laws. The INEC boss said the Card Reader Machines can work for 12 hours without electricity. He also said they had been tested in 13 states. According to him, the INEC is empowered to change the Temporary Voter Cards for the PVCs. He said the six weeks period of extension for the elections will further ensure free and fair elections. Jega, according to the Eagle, tested the use of the PVC and the Card Reader Machines with the PVC of Sen...

let me help you, Amaechi did what? This newspapers and they way they captions news 

The nude corpse of a lady was discovered a day after Valentine's day on Sunday Feb. 15th at Okwu village in Umunneato autonomous community in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. The corpse had bruises all over, especially around the breasts and private parts, leading people to believe she was brutally raped and murdered. The identity of the victim or her age is still unknown. The people who discovered her body called the police who came to remove the corpse. The witness who saw her body told a  Vanguard  reporter "I am not too sure that it was a case of ritual killing because no part of the girl, on the face value, was missing. It is, to me, a case of brutal gang-raping to death of the unfortunate girl.” See the very graphic photos below The body of the girl had been moved to the morgue of Aboh Mbaise General Hospital. Source: Vanguard

Asari Dokubo who is currently in Mecca, posted this message to APC on his Facebook page and also shared photos from his stay in the Holy City. 

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has explained why his PDP membership card was publicly destroyed on Monday February 16th. He kinda blamed it on the man who tore it... In a telephone interview with  Premium Times , Chief Obasanjo said party members in his ward led by the ward Chairman, Mr Surajudeen Olajundoye paid him a visit that Monday to express their concern over his inactivity in the party, saying that his inaction has made them uncertain of their own political future in PDP. They also told him that they heard that the state party leadership was in the process of expelling him from the party. Continue... "They were concerned that I had only one leg in the party, and worried that since I’m their leader in the ward, they need to hear from me. "You are our leader and it is you we are following. You have remained a card-carrying member of the the party. But since you became angry with the party we have lost sense of direction and now we are hearing th...

She's just 24 years old. Youtube blogger  Zoe Sugg recently purchased a mansion worth one million pounds and she's inspiring a new generation of bloggers. Zoe began her career as a teenager in 2009 posting videos on YouTube about fashion and beauty from her bedroom. But seven million subscribers later the internet superstar better known as Zoella, has bought herself a £1million five-bedroom mansion in the Brighton area. Miss Sugg will share the house with blogger boyfriend Alfie Deyes, 21, and says that she has christened the house the 'Zalfie Pad.' Pics of the home below. With boyfriend above... After finishing her A-Levels at the local Corsham School - she took art, photography and textiles - the 24-year-old started an apprenticeship at an interior design company. Soon her YouTube channel, set up in 2009, became her full-time job, with more than six million subscribers and 12 million hits on her vlogs per month.    Zo...

Find the EFCC press statement below... A legal practitioner, Barrister Babatunde Ojo, was on Monday, February 16, 2015 arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, on a 48-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, forgery and issuance of dud cheques. Ojo allegedly used his company, Amberville Communications Limited, to obtain the sum of N117, 350, 000.00 (One Hundred and Seventeen Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) from Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Awodiya of First Hebron Homes and Investment Limited in the guise of allocating 50 shops at HFP Eastline Shopping Complex, Ajah, Lagos, to them. The victim was allegedly linked to Ojo by one of the directors of the Shopping Complex. He was told that, the amount per shop was N4, 000,000 (Four Million Naira only) , with Fifty (50) shops, costing N200, 000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira only). The victim negotiated fo...