This woman broke into tears as Buhari received his INEC certificate

by Chinwe Okafor Talk about sheer genuine emotion. This woman broke down in tears while President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari received his certificate of return from INEC chairman. See her expression to that below; #NigeriaDecided as @ThisIsBuhari received his certificate she broke down into tears.

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April 1, 2015

Why I don’t shake hands with women || RSUST best graduating student explains

by Chinwe Okafor Best Graduating Student at the recently held 27th convocation ceremony of the Rivers state University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Falola Ajumobi, has revealed what enabled his success. He said that one of the things he had to do to achieve his academic feat was to distance himself from women- He never as... Read More

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April 1, 2015

Meet the sign language communicator of the election result announcement

by Chinwe Okafor To some he helped them understand what was going on, to others, he was hilarious. This is the man, one of the three people handling the sign language during the election result announcement, who kept Nigerians alive with laughter despite having to wait all day for the winner to be announced. Peter... Read More

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April 1, 2015

See what Mandela told Buhari in 2011

by Chinwe Okafor Who would have thought? Apparently, the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and past president, Nelson Mandela may have had a little to do with the win of General Buhari Mohammadu as the next president of Nigeria. In a 2003 report by Sun NewsPaper, a headline back then read “I spent 27 years in jail yet... Read More

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April 1, 2015

Hilarious! Top 5 memes from Rivers REC flop yesterday (LOOK)

by Chinwe Okafor These memes are beyond hilarious. The REC who read out the scores today for Rivers state had a hard time seeing the results, so bad that an additional source of power had to be provided. Trust Nigerians to react to that.

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April 1, 2015

‘Jega’s P.A is a cutey’ || Forget the vote collation, Twitter ladies have something more interesting

by Chinwe Okafor Apparently something was more interesting than the nation’s attentiveness to INEC on the announcement of whom the next president of Nigeria would be. This particular interest also got the ladies of Twitter drooling. What or who it is? The INEC chairman’s Personal Assistant. While the nation sat glued in front of their... Read More

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March 31, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: Pres. Jonathan cruises to victory in Cross River

by Chinwe Okafor The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan has won the presidential election of Cross River state. He polled 414,863 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, who had 28,363 votes. AA: 279 AD: 709 ACPN:514 ADC:749 APA:532 APC:28,368 CPP:381 HOPE:237 KOWA:312 NCP:930 PDP:414,863 PPN:864 UDP:289... Read More

March 31, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: Jonathan clinches own state, sweeps Bayelsa

by Chinwe Okafor The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan, has won the presidential election of Bayelsa state. He polled 361,209 votes to defeat the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buahri who had 5,194 votes. #BAYELSA AA:45 AD:69 ACPN:38 ADC:116 APA:70 APC:5,194 CPP:44 HOPE:18 KOWA:52 NCP:95 PDP:361,209 PPN:62 UDP:20 UPP:35

March 31, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: Buhari wins in Lagos state

by Chinwe Okafor The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari has won the presidential election of Lagos state. He polled 792, 460 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan, who had 632, 327 votes. #Lagos AA:1795 AD:4453 ACPN:3038 ADC:2072 APA:2177 APC:792,460 CPP:1125 HOPE:255 KOWA:1000 NCP:1430 PDP:632,327 PPN:1041... Read More

March 30, 2015

BREAKING: INEC postpones election result announcement

by Chinwe Okafor The Independent National Electoral Commission has on Monday night postponed the announcement for the 2015 presidential elections results. After reading out the results of 18 states with an interval of two recesses, Prof. Attahiru Jega announced that the election readings would be continued on Tuesday by 10am. So far, the All Progressives... Read More

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March 30, 2015

Jonathan wins presidential election in Plateau

by Chinwe Okafor The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonahtan, has won the election in Plateau state. He polled 549,615 votes to defeat Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who had 429,140 votes. AA: 178 AD: 279 ACPN: 391 ADC: 406 APA: 618 APC: 429,140 CPP: 237 HOPE: 56 KOWA:... Read More

March 30, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: In Imo, President Jonathan coasts to victory

by Chinwe Okafor The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan has won the election in Imo state. He polled 559,185 votes to defeat Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who had 133,253 votes. #Imo AA: 533 AD:757 ACPN: 956 ADC: 1617 APA: 2236 APC: 133,253 CPP: 733 HOPE: 157 KOWA:... Read More

March 30, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: It’s President Jonathan for Akwa Ibom

by Chinwe Okafor The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan has won the election in Akwa Ibom state. He polled 953,304 votes to defeat Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who had 58,411 votes. AA: 1600 AD: 474 ACPN:443 ADC:608 APA:384 APC:58,411 CPP:412 HOPE:192 KOWA:160 NCP:381 PDP:953,304 PPN:324 UDP:224 UPP:144

March 30, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: President Jonathan declared winner in Abia state

by Chinwe Okafor The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan has won the election in Abia state. He polled 368,303 votes to defeat Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who had 13,394 votes. AA:315 AD:448 ACPN:2194 ADC:569 APA:2766 APC:13,394 CPP:1046 HOPE:125 KOWA:173 NCP:745 PDP:368,303 PPN:424 UDP:213 UPP:330

March 30, 2015

President Jonathan clinches Anambra state

by Chinwe Okafor The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, President Goodluck Jonathan has won the election in Anambra state. He polled 660,762 votes to defeat Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, who had 17,926 votes. AA:547 AD:475 ACPN:1259 ADC:534 APA:2303 APC:17,926 CPP:1279 HOPE:357 KOWA:311 NCP:887 PDP:660,762 PPN:537 UDP:286 UPP:1121

March 30, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: Buhari wins Kano by a landslide

by Chinwe Okafor The presidential candidate of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari, has won the presidential election of Kano state by a landslide. He polled 1,903,999 to defeat President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP who had 215,779 votes #Kano AA:426 AD:708 ACPN:778 ADC:657 APA:2770 APC:1,903,999 CPP:1,552 HOPE:292 KOWA:288 NCP:697 PDP:215,779 PPN:485 UDP:234 UPP:156

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March 30, 2015

While Nigerians are waiting for election result… here are 10 funny tweets from Twitter

by Chinwe Okafor As Nigerians await the results of the first phase of the general elections, impatience and anxiety has become the order of the day. Here are 10 funny tweets by Nigerians while waiting on the election results: Oh God “@nifemisinzu: Nigerians presently watching Jega like.. pic.twitter.com/3kKT6vsoNe” — Prince C. (@Prince_II) March 30, 2015 I’m... Read More

March 30, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: How Gen. Buhari won in Oyo state

by Chinwe Okafor General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of APC is leading in Oyo according to results of the local government released by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). With the results from Oyo, Buhari appears to have won all states in the Southwest save for Ekiti state where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won. See... Read More

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March 30, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: Buhari in strong showing, leads – See the breakdown here

by Godwin Akanfe The All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, Muhammadu Buhari is leading in three of the six geopolitical zones given the results that have been officially announced so far. The zones favouring Buhari are the north west, north east and south west,and on the strength of those zones, it may be safe to call the... Read More

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March 30, 2015

#InOtherNews: Have you seen GEJ & GMB’s ‘Surulere’ photos?

by Chinwe Okafor The 2015 presidential election just concluded and the nation is anxiously waiting for who would emerge the winner of the contest. The pictures of two leading candidates, GEJ (PDP) and GMB (APC) amongst others, was spotted on Twitter via a tweet from @ikhane asking which of these youngsters would you’s like to... Read More

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March 29, 2015

Why I decided to stop the use of cocaine || Terry G wants you to know

by Chinwe Okafor His looks alone is suggestive. Controversial artiste, Terry G, publicly admitted to Punch Newspapers that the people’s perception over his drug use was indeed true. The artiste indulgence in hard substance is known by those close to him but he even admitted it was an actress that introduced him to the use of... Read More

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March 29, 2015

Ubi Franklin opens up on how he met actress, Lilian Usoro (READ)

by Chinwe Okafor Their ‘engagement’ announcement was awkward to say the least. But for Ubi Franklin, awkwardness has always been in the picture. Starting with the fax that he didn’t even know who she was when he met her. It became even more awkward when he had to call her up after to enquire if... Read More

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March 29, 2015

Kenyans grumble about Davido’s performance in 8 hilarious memes (LOOK)

by Chinwe Okafor Following the not-too-awesome performance reported to have been displayed by Davido last night in Kenya [you would recall he left for the country a day to the elections in a private jet], the Kenyans didn’t take too lightly the situation that occurred. They felt cheated. And so with that, they took to... Read More

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March 29, 2015

We remember the Thisday Style covers of GMB & GEJ (LOOK)

by Chinwe Okafor In this nailbiting, tension-soaked and nerve wracking phase of election-weekend, it’s only apt to ease several frayed nerves with something… soft. With a collage of their cover-pictures on the cover of Thisday Style, we momentarily take you away from the intense competition between the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari and... Read More

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March 29, 2015

LOL! This is the Facebook election results that went viral yesterday

by Chinwe Okafor Barely hours after the 2015 elections, a dubious election results sheet from various polling units, with percentage points awarded to both leading political parties, was released by Facebook. Apparently, Facebook already decided what both candidates scored and, as you can imagine, this sent the internet community into a frenzy. Check it out... Read More

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March 29, 2015

#NigeriaDecides: Could this be the reason why GEJ lost at the Presidential Villa polling units?

by Chinwe Okafor The final result announced at the two polling units at the Presidential Villa Saturday night saw the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan lose to the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, General Mohammadu Buhari as he polled a total of 595 votes to General Buhari’s 613 votes. Gen. Buhari on the... Read More

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March 28, 2015

How Gen. Buhari voted in Katsina today (See Photos)

by Chinwe Okafor Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has voted today at his polling unit in Daura, Katsina State where he got accredited by the INEC officials. Buhari, who is the major contender running against the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan arrived at his polling unit at 8:40am in... Read More

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March 28, 2015

Don’t lie, the queue at your polling unit wasn’t this long (LOOK)

by Chinwe Okafor Embrace change and tell us the truth. This picture of a supposed queue at a polling unit went viral on the internet and we are wondering if it is indeed genuine, as it is alarming.

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March 28, 2015

No stopping him: Pres. Jonathan votes despite initial challenges (PHOTOS)

by Chinwe Okafor President Jonathan has finally casted his vote at Ward 13, Unit 39 Otuoke, March 28. It would be recalled that after a grueling wait and issues surrounding his accreditation, the President was accredited at his hometown in Otueke, Bayelsa State. Pres. Jonathan who arrived at the centre 9:19am got accredited after four... Read More

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March 28, 2015

What would you do if you see something like this…? (LOOK)

by Chinwe Okafor Pray? Run? Scream? Gawk? I know what i’d do- flee. Because that is what is obtainable at the moment. This Israeli magician made news when he was spotted by Tel Aviv shoppers floating above a street, with just his hand touching the wall. Look below for a more closer look. Puzzled onlookers tried to work... Read More

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This woman broke into tears as Buhari received his INEC certificate

Why I don’t shake hands with women || RSUST best graduating student explains

Meet the sign language communicator of the election result announcement

See what Mandela told Buhari in 2011

Hilarious! Top 5 memes from Rivers REC flop yesterday (LOOK)

‘Jega’s P.A is a cutey’ || Forget the vote collation, Twitter ladies have something more interesting

#NigeriaDecides: Pres. Jonathan cruises to victory in Cross River

#NigeriaDecides: Jonathan clinches own state, sweeps Bayelsa

#NigeriaDecides: Buhari wins in Lagos state

BREAKING: INEC postpones election result announcement

Jonathan wins presidential election in Plateau

#NigeriaDecides: In Imo, President Jonathan coasts to victory

#NigeriaDecides: It’s President Jonathan for Akwa Ibom

#NigeriaDecides: President Jonathan declared winner in Abia state

President Jonathan clinches Anambra state

#NigeriaDecides: Buhari wins Kano by a landslide

While Nigerians are waiting for election result… here are 10 funny tweets from Twitter

#NigeriaDecides: How Gen. Buhari won in Oyo state

#NigeriaDecides: Buhari in strong showing, leads – See the breakdown here

#InOtherNews: Have you seen GEJ & GMB’s ‘Surulere’ photos?

Why I decided to stop the use of cocaine || Terry G wants you to know

Ubi Franklin opens up on how he met actress, Lilian Usoro (READ)

Kenyans grumble about Davido’s performance in 8 hilarious memes (LOOK)

We remember the Thisday Style covers of GMB & GEJ (LOOK)

LOL! This is the Facebook election results that went viral yesterday

#NigeriaDecides: Could this be the reason why GEJ lost at the Presidential Villa polling units?

How Gen. Buhari voted in Katsina today (See Photos)

Don’t lie, the queue at your polling unit wasn’t this long (LOOK)

No stopping him: Pres. Jonathan votes despite initial challenges (PHOTOS)

What would you do if you see something like this…? (LOOK)

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