INEC exposes reasons Card Readers failed

Nail polish, adhesive used to sabotage device
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has
maintained that it will not allow manual accreditation for
Saturday elections.
The commission, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said unlike
in the presidential and National Assembly elections where the
commission relaxed the rules, Card Readers will be used for
governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections.
Consequently, the commission also revealed that it has worked
on identified challenges that faced the operation of the Card
Reader during the last elections.
The statement by the commission’s secretary, Mrs. Augusta C.
Ogakwu, explained that there was no way the commission
would suddenly replace the provisions in the books.
The statement reads: “The INEC wishes to inform all Nigerians
that Card Readers will be used for the April 11, 2015 elections.
“The provision of the guidelines for the conduct of the 2015
general elections, which outlined what is to be done if a Card
Reader fails and cannot be replaced by the commission within a
specified time frame (i.e. reschedule the election to the next
day), will be enforced.
“The relaxation of the guideline on March 28, 2015 was only
with respect to the presidential and National Assembly
elections held on that date.
“The commission has reviewed the operation of the Card Reader
in the March 28 elections, identified the challenges and has
taken adequate measures to address them.”
But, some senior security officers have alleged that nail polish
and adhesive were used by many members of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) to sabotage the operation of Card
Readers during the March 28 elections.
The officers, who craved anonymity, said superglue or
transparent nail polish when applied to fingerprints creates new
prints, thereby distorting original fingerprints.
Investigations also revealed that superglue contains
Cyanoacrylate, which is a generic name for a family of strong
and fast-acting adhesives.
It was also found that the vapours of Cyanoacrylate react with
the chemicals that are found in fingerprints.
One of the security officials said most voters deliberately
applied the substances to make the Card Readers unable to
detect their fingerprints.
“They robbed these substances to protect their fingerprints.
The superglue and nail polish distorted their fingerprints and
rendered the Card Readers unable to capture them.
“This gave room for agitation and confusion. In the process,
INEC resorted to manual accreditation. The manual accreditation
gave birth to manipulation and irregularities,” a senior security
officer said.
He added: “They used it and it worked. They are also planning
to use it on Saturday for the governorship and House of
Assembly elections. They will create enough confusion that will
compel INEC to revert to manual accreditation.”
He asked electoral officials to check fingerprints thoroughly
before placing them on the card readers for identification and
accreditation.
“INEC officials must do additional work. They should examine
fingerings of each voter physically before using Card Readers
on them. Otherwise, the failure rate of Card Readers in the next
polls will be worse than the last election,” he said.

Be Healthy And Youthful: Put An Ice Cube At This Point On Your Head

Would you like to learn a secret that will make you look
younger and leave you feeling full of life and energy? All you
need is an ice cube and a few moments of your time!
There is a point at the base of the neck known as the Feng Fu,
the Feng Fu pressure point is found at the base of the skull just
below the bottom ridge of the skull cap at the top of the neck.
If you regularly put ice on it, the body begins to rejuvenate,
many diseases disappear, and you will find yourself healthy,
cheerful, and full of energy.
Method:
First you lie on your stomach, and place an ice cube at the
point of Feng Fu and hold it for 20 minutes. You can either lie
there or fix it there with a bandage, scarf or plastic wrap.
Do this regularly with breaks of 2-3 days and do it in the
morning on an empty stomach and at night before going to bed.
After 30-40 seconds, you will feel slight heat come onto the
point. In the first days, you will have a feeling of euphoria due
to the release of endorphins.
What will it do?
Improve sleep quality
Improve mood
Heal the digestive system
Relieve colds
Relief of headaches, toothaches, and pain
It can help:
Respiratory diseases
Cardiovascular disease
Thyroid issues
PMS
Menstrual cycle
Mental health

This is What Happens When You Put Cut Up Onions in Your Socks While You Sleep

The bottom of your feet are powerful and direct access points
to internal organs in your body through what is known as
meridians in Chinese medicine. These meridians are pathways
to each organ with your body. Some people say that meridians
do not exist within the body or at the bottom of the feet. For
those that understand Chinese medicine you may know that the
meridian system is very closely correlated with the nervous
system.
If you believe you have nerves and a nervous system, you
believe you have meridians too, it’s basically the same thing
when you interpret it and look at where the meridians are
within the body.
The bottom of the feet have many different nerve endings,
approximately 7,000 (basically meridians) that directly link to
different organs within the body. They are very powerful
electrical circuits within the body and are often dormant
because we wear shoes and don’t get accupuncture done to
help the meridians or nerves in any way. This is why I
recommend walking outside barefoot! To stimulate those
meridians on the bottom of your feet as well as to ground
yourself with the earth’s negative ion field.
One of the coolest ways to open up these electrical pathways
(meridians) and to help purify your internal organs without
doing anything internal (diet related) is to cut up onions or
garlic and put them in your socks (at the bottom part of your
feet) while sleeping.
Onions and garlic are known air purifiers and when applied to
the skin topically they kill germs and bacteria but also the
phosphoric acid (the substance from onions that makes you cry
when you cut them open) enters the bloodstream it helps to
purify the blood and kill any bacteria or germs that may be
festering waiting to give you the flu.
Some people go so far as to say to never reuse an onion
because it will collect germs and bacteria and then you’re
eating that. I am not sure if this is true or not because it’s a
percentage of people that say it is, and some that say it isn’t!
What I do know though is that the onions do age (oxidize, age
from oxygen) on the layer that’s cut open and eating oxidized
food isn’t the freshest and healthiest form of that food, so
cutting that layer off before you eat the onion may be smart to
avoid eating germ or bacteria infested layer of onion.
So it’s fairly simple, here are the two steps to purify your blood,
and kill germs and bacteria.
Step 1: Cut Up Organic Onions Into Slices (White or Red
Onions)
You’ll want to use organic onions because they will be free of
pesticides and other chemicals you don’t want sitting on your
feet and entering your bloodstream all night. You’ll just want to
cut the onions into flat slices so that they can be applied to the
bottom of your entire foot (like a platform) so the bottom of
your feet are immersed with onion while you sleep.
Step 2: Put The Onions In Your Sock Under Your Foot
(on the bottom) And Sleep!
As you sleep the natural healing powers of the onion will go to
work through your skin (trans-dermal application) purifying
your blood and killing bacteria and germs as well as absorbing
toxins! It will also help to purify the air in your room.
You’ll benefit from the air purifying effects as well! In England,
during plagues they would chop up onions and leave them in
the room to purify the air and to help them not be susceptible
to infections, the flu or anything that may harm them.
As you can see here in the picture below the organs and
systems within the body and their meridian connection points
in the foot.
Here are the benefits of cutting up an onion and putting it in
your sock (at the bottom) while you sleep…
1. Purify your blood: Phosphoric acid from the onions as it’s
applied and absorbed through trans-dermal means purifies the
blood.
2. Kills bacteria, germs and pathogens: Onions (and garlic) have
strong anti-bacterial and anti-viral benefits!
3. Purify the air: This little chamber of smelly onion around
your feet will purify the air and keep your feet smelling better
and free of toxins and chemicals pulling them out of your feet
while you sleep.
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Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, leads thugs to attack, sack court in Yenagoa

The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dicks   

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on Monday led a gang of thugs to attack a
Federal High court in Bayelsa, a video
obtained by PREMIUM TIMES has shown.
The video shows the governor, dressed in
traditional Ijaw blazers, walking into the
court premises, accompanied by his police
guards and hangers on, before hooligans,
including rifle wielding police officers,
invaded and attacked the court.
The thugs were chanting “we no go gree, for
this state, e no possible” as they walked into
a court hearing. Loud gunshots could be
heard shortly before the hooligans began
breaking glasses and destroying properties
inside the court.
At least 15 lawyers, including a pregnant
woman and two Senior Advocates of
Nigeria, were in the court during the attack.
The governor walked out of the court
premises at the peak of the attack.
Most police officers seen within the court
premises during the attack either aided the
attacker or looked on, idly.
Only one police officer was seen, in the
video, after the attack, trying to help the
injured.
The thugs upturned chairs within the court
room, scattered files all over and shattered
glass windows as lawyers ducked under
tables. A female lawyer covered herself with
a chair.
Another could be heard saying her upper
arm was hurting.
An elderly man, who was seemingly brought
out of the court room by police officers,
gasping for breath, said he was badly beaten
by the thugs who came into the court room.
“The governor and his troops walked into
the court room and I was beated (sic),” the
victim said.
Why Dickson stormed the court
According to Heineken Lokpobiri, a serving
senator, the court was in session to deliver a
judgment on his case against the governor’s
preferred senatorial candidate, Foster Ogola,
over the validity of the later’s candidacy for
Bayelsa West senatorial district.
Mr. Lopkobiri claimed his party, the Peoples
Democratic Party illegally substituted his
name with Mr. Foster’s, and had filed a suit
accusing Mr. Foster of issuing false
information to INEC.
Mr. Lokpobiri added that the attack on the court was the
second, claiming that earlier, thugs had come to seal the
court and stopped the Judge from entering the court,
forcing an adjournment.
Mr. Lokpobiri told PREMIUMTIMES he was shocked and
irritated by the governor’s action at the court.
Mr. Lokpobiri said the governor has the right to support
his opponent, but has no right to bring thugs to attack the
court.
“All these things happened in the presence of the
commissioner of police and am surprised. If the governor
did not lead the thugs, it would have been a different thing
entirely,” he said.
The governor’s spokesman, Daneil Iworiso, told PREMIUM
TIMES the incumbent governor did not lead any gang to the
court.
But in the video, Governor Dickson was clearly seen
storming, and at the end of the attack, leaving the court
accompanied by thugs and police officers.
Mr. Iworiso however described the video as photoshopped.
“You know its election time and we need to ensure that no
violence occurs in our state, as soon as we heard of the
clash we went there with commissioner of police and
armed men to try to cub the situation that was when we
found out it was a case between the incumbent governor
and aspiring governor,” he said.
He explained that the governor was not there when the
clash started, stating that it was all propaganda.
“When I saw the video I was just laughing because it was
all photo shoot, and I describe that as poor representation
of what happened there and I was also there,” he said.
Mr. Iworiso accused Mr. Lokpobiri of also bringing thugs to
the just-concluded PDP primaries, stating that he is known
for carrying thugs around Bayelsa state.
Mr. Lokpobiri admitted he has a loud crowd and
followership but that his followers and loyalists are
peaceful.
“If he is accusing me of carrying thugs in the last
primaries, did they destroy anything or harm anyone
during the election,” Mr. Lokpobiri said.
Although several police officers were present when the
attack occurred, the Bayelsa Police Command said no arrest
has been made in relation to the incident.
Asinim Butswat, the state police spokesperson, said he had
no information that the governor led the thugs to the court
premises.
“What we know is that the governor visited the court and
the thugs took advantage of his visit to force the gate open
and invade the court,” Mr. Butswat said.
“The police officers on the court premises did not know the
thugs came to cause havoc because they were not armed.
“After they attacked the court, they all fled before they
could be arrested.”
Mr. Buswat denied the state police commissioner was
present when the court was attacked, saying he only visited
the court “shortly after the incident.   

10 governoship candidates step down for Ambode in Lagos

10 Lagos governorship candidates have stepped down to
declare support for the candidate of All Progressives Congress,
APC, Akinwunmi Ambode in the forthcoming April 11
governorship election in the state.
According to a press statement signed by the 10 governorship
candidates, the aspirants stated that they have shelved their
individual ambitions to be the governor of Lagos State to
support the candidature of Ambode.
” Without mincing words, we collectively as candidates of
various political parties, have decided to join hands together
with Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode of APC to give Lagosians a
deserving government at this time.
We unanimously give our unwavering solidarity to work together
with Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode of the APC come 11th April 2015,
slated by the Independent National Electoral Commission for
gubernatorial election.
We enjoin all our teeming supporters across the state to take
this declaration and sound it loud and clear that Akinwunmi
Ambode, is the candidate to take Lagos to the next level.”