Nigeria: Nigerians to get permanent voters card soon

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border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; clear: left; color: #cccccc; float: none !important; font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 0px;">Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega</div></div></a></div></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said that permanent voter's card would be given before the year ends.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Jega, who made this known on Sunday in Abuja, added that the issuance will make a positive impact on voting.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"As you know, we did biometric data registration; before the end of this year, we will start issuing the permanent voter's card, and these permanent voter's cards that we are going to issue are chip-based, just like many of our own bank cards. So, they carry all the information on a microchip which is embedded in the card of the card," he said.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">"What we believe we can achieve at the minimum by 2015, is that we can achieve 100 percent authentication at the polling units.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">If a voter comes to the polling unit and brings out his or her card, we will be able to determine 100 percent whether he is the legitimate holder of the card.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The issues of people using other people's cards to go and vote, stealing cards or even buying cards will be squarely dealt with... We already have all the data in our database; we are now going to issue the permanent voter cards. All we need to do between now and 2015 is to buy what I call card readers in which we will store all the information." he added.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">According to the INEC chairman, the card readers would be available in all polling units, to ascertain the legitimacy of the holder.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Jega added that INEC would explore the possibility of electronic voting if the restrictive provision was deleted from the Constitution.</div></div></div>

Nigeria: Nigerians to get permanent voters card soon

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission...

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Nigeria; Cultist hacks 300 level student to death

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="article_abstract" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;">… 20 mins after telling father ‘I'll kill your son’</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">Tragedy struck in Warri, Delta State, last weekend, when a 300-level student of the Delta State University, Abraka, was hacked to death allegedly by a suspected cultist over a N5,000 internet modem.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">The victim, Solomon Onyeoghani, was a student in the Department of Business Education, while his alleged killer, 29-year-old Chukwu Kelubia, is of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">It was gathered that the incident occurred barely hours after Onyeoghani returned from school. He was said to be on his way to visit his mother, a petty trader, when he was attacked by Kelubia.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">Sources at Osamede Street, Okumagba Layout, where the incident occurred, told Nation Evening Express that the suspected cultist had earlier accused his victim of stealing his GSM internet modem, an allegation the deceased reportedly denied.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">However, unknown to him, Kelubia was lurking at No13 Osamede Street on the fateful day. He was reportedly armed with jagged-edged broken bottle.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">“He chased Solomon and stabbed him severally on the neck. As the boy was running, he kept on stabbing him. Desperate for help, Solomon ran towards a private hospital close by, but he fell down and died at the entrance.” Confirming the report, father of the deceased, Mr. Augustine Onyoghani, said his son’s alleged killer, who is a feared leader of one of the notorious cult groups in the area, had earlier warned him “that he would kill my son over the missing internet modem.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">“Not up to one hour that the boy (Kelubia) left, someone came to tell me that Solo was dead. I didn’t know that the boy meant to kill my son. They did not fight. The boy rushed out from nowhere and started stabbing him with broken bottle. He stabbed my son severally on the neck.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.383333206176758px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 50px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: x-small;">Although the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Charles Muka, could not be reached for comment, a senior officer at the B Division confirmed the incident, disclosing that the father of the suspect had relocated to the station for fear of attack by angry mob.</span></div></div>

Nigeria; Cultist hacks 300 level student to death

… 20 mins after telling father ‘I'll kill your son’ Tragedy struck in Warri, Delta State, last weekend, when a 300-level student of the ...

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