Teachers in northeastern Nigeria march in Maiduguri demanding the release of 42 abducted schoolchildren in Borno State and stronger school protection.
Al Jazeera’s Felix Nyawara reports.
📌 DID YOU KNOW? 🇳🇬
In April 2014, then Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, stated that Anambra State was Nigeria’s safest state over the preceding five years, according to police records during Peter Obi’s administration.
He also noted that there was no recorded bank robbery in the state during that period.
#Statisense
Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
You are the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. At a time when citizens from your own region, the South West, including Yoruba men, women, children, and toddlers, are being held captive by terrorists in Yoruba forests, your campaign team considered it appropriate to fly three helicopters bearing your photograph over a Yoruba town, months ahead of an election, while captives continue to cry out for help.
This display reflects a troubling lack of sensitivity to the pain, fear, and anxiety that affected families and communities are enduring. At a moment when Nigerians are looking to their government for decisive action, compassion, and leadership, such political spectacles send the wrong message.
Mr. President, if you genuinely care about the safety and welfare of Nigerian citizens, you should rein in this insensitivity and ensure that every available effort is focused on securing the release of those being held captive and restoring public confidence in the government's commitment to protecting its people.
Leadership is measured not by displays of political influence, but by the ability to respond effectively to the suffering of citizens and uphold their security and dignity.
THE BACKDOOR IS OPEN: How APC is Entering INEC's Secret Database
The lie that INEC is independent has finally been exposed. It did not happen because a whistleblower spoke out or because of a big investigation. It happened because APC operatives are now so proud of their power that they do not even care about hiding their tracks.
To mock actor Emeka Ike because he transferred his voter registration from Imo State to Abuja, an APC apologist, Lere went online to share screenshots. But he made a big mistake. He did not just share a rumor; he shared clear screenshots taken from inside the secret, password-protected backend database of INEC.
For an ordinary person, the pictures look like normal registration slips. But if you look closely at the top of the browser tab, the web address shows https://t.co/Ne2YNhFv0f.
Let this sink in very well. This cvradmin is not a public website. It is not the place where you and I go to check our voter cards. It is the highly restricted, internal database meant ONLY for INEC ICT officials and data managers. Yet, an APC member has the password to enter inside, see a citizen's secret tracking number, check his private details, and look at internal system steps.
This shows us two scary things: First, it means INEC has completely sold out. They have handed over their secret passwords to APC boys so they can spy on citizens' data whenever they want. Second, it means INEC’s computer security is totally broken. Their database has an open door where politicians can easily enter to pack, track, and change the data of over 90 million Nigerian voters.
If you think this is just a fight between big politicians, you are wrong. If the ruling party can sit in their house, log into INEC’s backend, and track who is transferring their PVC, exactly when they applied, and where they are moving to, then no opposition strategy is safe. Your privacy as a citizen does not exist.
This explains the magic numbers we always see during elections. When a political party has access to the computer backend, they can trace where voters are moving to. They can target specific transfers and reject them, stop registrations in areas where people do not like them, and fix the election results long before the election day. By using private data to bully people, they have proved what Nigerians have been saying all along: INEC and APC are using the exact same server room.
This is a big crime under the Nigeria Data Protection Act and it threatens our national security. INEC cannot just release one useless press statement to blame "glitch." The Data Protection Commission must launch a proper investigation immediately to find out the exact INEC staff whose password was used to leak this file. Also, the INEC insiders who gave out the password and the politicians who used it must be arrested and sent to jail under the Cybercrimes Act.
The battle for Nigerian democracy is no longer just about guarding ballot boxes at the polling units. The real war is now inside the INEC computers. If INEC has given its keys to the ruling party, then a free and fair election in Nigeria is a total lie. INEC Chairman must tell the nation the truth: Why is APC managing your backend?
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Listen to the powerful and well detailed submission by N6 @n6oflife6 passionately delivered, highly informative, and deeply educative on the current state of the nation.
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2027 will be a defining moment for our country, we either save it or loose it forever. We cannot allow this evil hegemony to continue, and only our PVC and 2X2 plank and helmet can make it happen. Go and register and get your PVC while the opportunity still exist.
The irony is that all t most of these celebrities speaking up against the children being kidnapped and general insecurity in the country today will still campaign and vote for Tinubu tomorrow while the rest will rather not campaign or say anything about the election.
Mr. Peter Obi is the man who saw tomorrow, he knew ADC was no different from APC and Atiku will never change, he took the best action any sane man could take.
Today Amaechi and Hayatu-Deen have already brejected the sham primary election that they held that is about to be announced with Atiku as the winner.
A man ran multi-billion businesses, banks successfully and governed a state like Anambra where the governor before him was kidnapped and taken to a shrine, all these he did successfully without compromising his core values, yet we question his decisions at every turn.
Obi is who he says he is!
Okwute ndi Nigeria!!
I REJECT THE CONCOCTED RESULTS OF THE ADC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES
Following reports of widespread voter disenfranchisement in most parts of the country during the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential Primaries yesterday, I unequivocally reject the concocted results being announced.
I had initially stated that I will only accept the outcome of the Primaries if the process was free, fair, and transparent, and I stand by my word. I will not accept results from a process that does not reflect the values that the ADC had pledged to uphold, to rescue Nigerians from the impunity and gross mismanagement that our country is currently facing in the hands of the ruling party.
There’s no way that about eighty percent of members of the party were not allowed to vote, and you expect me to accept such results. Then what makes us different from the others? The whole idea of the ADC was to give the Nigerian people a platform, to amplify the voices of the downtrodden, and make Nigeria a better place for everyone irrespective of backgrounds, ethnicity, or religion.
A party that criticizes the ruling APC and INEC for vote buying, rigging and writing of results, cannot be engaged in vote buying, writing of results, and other electoral malpractices that leads to the disenfranchisement of voters who are party members. This is not acceptable!
- Rt Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi
I will not be attending the announcement of the ADC Presidential Election Results today. I am concerned by reports from across the country of widespread vote rigging, some of which I myself observed, and will therefore be taking advice on my next steps.