Card Reader: So Smart, It Can’t Read
NIGERIANS should thank the Almighty that it was President Goodluck Jonathan, and not Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari, who had to spend the better part of an hour waiting for the smart card reader to unfold his biometric details. Four card readers after, several consultations and part-time tutorials on operating the machine, the card reader did not recognise the President and his wife Dame Patience Jonathan. They left for home, returned, tried again, the same result.
Card reader must be used for Sunday’s Elections – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the use of card readers across the country for the extended Presidential and National
Assembly elections on Sunday, except in cases where the card readers fail to work.
Before Your State Governor Runs Away– 2
In case you are wondering why some of them will run away before May 29, 2015, consider this. On that day, the man who had been surrounded by tough-looking security people will find himself alone with the people he had ruled for eight years. Only God can save him if he still owes civil servants three or four months’ salary, as well as local contractors who might never get paid.
CHUKWUMA AZUONYE @ 70
Let us celebrate good men. Chukwuma Azuonye, poet, scholar, and belletrist; one of the most versatile and most sophisticated intellectuals of his generation in Nigeria, belongs squarely to that”interstial” generation in Nigeria: that is how I describe that group of people born between 1945 and 1955; between the end of World War II and the formal transition towards decolonization in Africa in the 20h century.
Card reader hitches: Hold Jega responsible, says Fani-Kayode
PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO, Saturday lampooned the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega over the card reader machine glitches during the Presidential and National Assembly elections, saying that Nigerians should hold the INEC boss responsible.
Nigerian refugees in Chad root for Buhari but can’t vote
In the Chadian capital N’Djamena, Modou Mallam brandished his blue voter’s card but the Nigerian refugee could not vote in Saturday’s presidential ballot like thousands of other refugees scattered across neighbouring countries.
