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ELECTORAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL,2017.

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Nigerias coat of arm Today, the Senate passed the Electoral Act No. 6 2010 (Amendment) Bill 2017 into law. The passage of this Bill in the Senate is a bold, innovative and common sense step on Electoral Reforms designed to guarantee free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. Without much ado, these are some of the highlights of the Bill: 1. There shall now be full biometric accreditation of voters with Smart Card Readers and/or other technological devices, as INEC may introduce for elections from time to time. 2. Presiding Officers must now instantly transmit accreditation data and results from Polling Units to various collation centers. Presiding officer who contravene this shall be imprisoned for at least 5 years (no option of fine). 3. All Presiding Officer must now first record accreditation data and polling results on INEC’s prescribed forms before transmitting them. The data/result recorded must be the same with what they transmitted. 4. INEC now has unfettere

WHICH WAY FORWARD FOR NIGERIA?

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On the way to ibadan from ijebu ode,just finished rescuing accident victim on that tiny bridge close to mamu. To God's glory, I was moved to take a risk into the valley and rushed two young toddler to blessed hospital in oru ijebu with the help of an okada rider and back to give support to the remaining victims which were collectively carried through the valley alongside road safety officials. After this, I went back to oru to pick those two young children to general hospital ijebu ode to join their likely parent amongst the survival. May God bless the doctors at blessed hospital and general hospital ijebu ode. They were wonderful people. Only a young toddler lost his life and another grown up man that was crushed down in the valley. Ijebu ode ibadan express road supposed to be a four lane express way and the signboard at the boundary reads that the work had been done. People should be mindful of the kind of driver driving the commercial bus they boarded for journe

GOD IS ONE!

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PEACE The greatest knowledge I have had as human is knowing that God exists and the greatest lesson I have had in life is taking philosophy as a course during my undergraduate days. I am saying this because in making a sacrifice over fellow human or taking risk of saving lives in a society such as ours, you realised almost immediately that your safety is in the hand of God. Secondly, you start praying immediately that the victim survives because our system is yet to start valuing human lives and taking it as an exercise to protect anyone with natural feeling of saving lives peradventure the victim dies in the process. All in all, God is one. He manifests himself in any dimension that soothe him. In my last rescue mission over the lives of two innocent toddler,all I uttered throughout the risky exercise as a christian was "Allahu" . At that moment i was in the spirit with tears in my eyes because I was consumed with the thought that those toddler must live