IObi, Atiku scores not affected by technical glitch – INEC
Mr Lawrence Bayode, a witness of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said the technical glitch experienced in the uploading of elections results during the February 25 presidential election did not affect the actual scores of the presidential candidates.
Bayode, who is the Deputy Director of ICT of INEC spoke as witness of the Commission in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku against the victory of President Bola Tinubu in the presidential election.
He was led in evidence by INEC’s lead counsel, Mr Abubakar Mahmoud, SAN.
However, under cross examination by counsel to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) the witness, asserted that the presidential election was free, fair, credible and conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act, 2022.
He added that the technical glitch did not affect the scores of the candidates as the results were manually computed by polling officers in the forms EC8As at the different polling units.
According to Bayode, INEC does not have an electronic collation system and results of the presidential election were manually collated and not electronically collated.
Fire Guts Hotel In Onitsha
Fire has gutted the popular Soprom Hotel in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, destroying property worth millions of naira.
The state’s police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident on Monday, said the fire started around 5am and that policemen were immediately deployed to the scene to maintain law and order.
Mbah Appoints Ladi Akeredolu-Ale Managing Director ESBS
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Enugu State Governor, Barr Peter Mbah has appointed Mr. Ladi Akeredolu-Ale Managing Director of Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS.
Until his recent appointment, Ladi was the Controller, Current Affairs at Channels Television in Lagos State.
His appointment was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Chidiebere Onyia on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
He said “The veteran journalist is expected to bring to bear over 30 years of experience in journalism in the state broadcasting service.
“It is expected that Mr. Akeredolu-Ale would drive a media revolution, inspire drastic reforms in media innovation and creativity, and turn the state-owned media service into one of the best revenue-generating organisations in the state.”
The statement reads in part:
“Mr. Ladi Akeredolu-Ale has been appointed the MD of the ESBS. Before his appointment, he was the Controller, Current Affairs at Channels television headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria.
If We Reveal All We know, people’ll be shocked — JAMB Registrar
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Tuesday said that Nigerians will be shocked if the board decides to reveal the details of the “forgery” perpetrated by Mmesoma Ejikeme, the candidate from Anambra State whom the board accused of manually inflating her UTME score.
Oloyede noted that the result paraded by Ejikeme was the template for a student who sat UTME two years ago.
In an interview with Premium Times, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin said, “If you scan the code, the candidate’s result will show. So I can say emphatically that the girl is parading a fake result. It is either she is being duped, or she is part of a syndicate manufacturing purported JAMB results.
“There are security features on our results, so I can emphasise that the girl is just trying to deceive the public. Her result is completely fake. Her claim that she printed the result from our site is a lie, and totally incorrect. If we should reveal all that we know, people will be shocked. So if people are looking for shortcuts to achieve an end, that is what would happen.”
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