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Adamawa: REC Allegedly Pressurizes Returning Officer To Manipulate Results by Jatuski: 8:41pm On Mar 19LEAKED AUDIO: INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Directs Returning Officer To Rig Election For Adamawa APC Gov. Candidate, Binani*Returning officer insists on doing right thingWith collation of results currently underway in Adamawa State and results from Fufore Local Government Area being the only pending tabulation to conclude the process, it has been uncovered that INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Barrister Hudu Yunusa is mounting pressure on the returning officer for Fufore to tamper with the results.An audio clip that was obtained reveals a conversation…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won 12 seats out of the 19 constituency seats so far declared in the Edo House of Assembly elections conducted on March 18. There are 24 seats in the Edo House of Assembly. Results from five other constituencies – Egor, Etsako I, Etsako II, Oredo East and Ovia Southwest have yet to be announced. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has so far won six seats while Labour Party (LP) won one seat. Meanwhile, Mr Marcus Onobun, Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly and candidate of the PDP has won in Esan West, Esan Central…

Nollywood actress, Ini Edo has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to be accountable and transparent during result collation in Saturday’s governorship and State House of Assembly elections. She also urged them to put their integrity to work. Speaking after casting her vote at unit 2 Awa Iman ward 1, Onna local government area, Akwa Ibom State, Edo said it would not be fair to allow the wrong people govern the state or for the peoples’ votes not to count. She observed that many voters did not turn up for the elections as experienced using the presidential election. “I…

Slavia head coach, Jindřich Trpišovský, has slammed Super Eagles forward, Peter Olayinka, after his erratic behaviour, which led to his dismissal as his team played a 2-2 draw with FC Slovan Liberec in the Fortuna Liga on Saturday. Olayinka overreacted after he was fouled in the box, headbutting a Slovan Liberec player, and was sent off by the referee during the encounter. He will now miss Slavia Prague’s upcoming games after he was red-carded in the closing minutes against Liberec. Speaking at his post-match press conference, Trpišovský said there was no reason for such a reaction from the Nigerian star.…

Britain’s Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, arrived in Rwanda on Saturday for a visit aimed at reinforcing the government’s commitment to its controversial agreement with Kigali to deport some asylum-seekers to the African country. After meetings with officials, she toured a construction training academy in the capital, Kigali, where she spoke to graduates of a training course which will be offered to refugees. Braverman said the UK government was excited about the partnership with Rwanda which she said would be “creating a vibrant community here, to be a positive, secure, beautiful haven and home for many thousands of people.” “And I’m…

UBS agreed to buy Credit Suisse for $3.25bn after a frantic weekend of negotiations brokered by Swiss regulators to safeguard the country’s banking system and attempt to prevent a crisis spreading across global markets. The historic deal follows five days in which the Swiss establishment raced to end a deepening crisis at Credit Suisse that threatened to topple the country’s second-largest lender.An emergency SFr50bn ($54bn) credit line provided by the Swiss National Bank on Wednesday failed to arrest a steep decline in the bank’s share price, which was exacerbated by wider market turmoil caused by the sudden collapse earlier this…

The FBI has arrested the person allegedly in charge of the BreachForums online hacking community, as reported earlier by Krebs on Security and Bleeping Computer. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, also known online as “Pompompurin,” was arrested at his New York home on Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud, according to a pair of court filings.In a sworn statement, the FBI agent involved in the case claims Fitzpatrick admitted to owning BreachForums at the time of his arrest and identified himself as Pompompurin. Pompompurin created BreachForums after the FBI seized RaidForums, a similar hacking site that also sold…

New research undertaken by American and Chinese researchers may pave the way for safer opioid painkillers, thanks to the use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to examine the detailed structures of opioid receptors.By analyzing the connections between these receptors and their natural peptide partners, the researchers hope to inspire the development of peptide-based or peptide-inspired medications with fewer severe side effects.This research could revolutionize pain management by mitigating risks such as addiction, numbness, and potentially fatal breathing problems associated with current opioid medications.Opioids alleviate pain by imitating a natural pain-relief process in our nervous system.They are the most effective and powerful…

Family forever! While Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky’s whirlwind romance was always something special, their relationship continued to bloom after they welcomed their three children. The Marvel star and the model tied the knot in 2010 after less than a year of dating. Two years later, they became a family of three with the birth of their daughter, India, in May 2012. Prior to welcoming their baby girl, Pataky accompanied her husband on the red carpet for The Avengers’ U.K. premiere, where he sweetly rubbed her baby bump. “She’s so proud of Chris and he’s proud of her,” a source told Us Weekly…

A dispute has taken place within the decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics dashboard DefiLlama, leading the platform to be forked by one of its employees over the weekend. The dispute centers on the company’s plans to launch a token. On March 19, pseudonymous developer at DefiLlama 0xngmi announced the firm’s team was forking the platform, which was “undergoing a hostile takeover”, accusing DefiLlama’s founders of launching a token without its employees’ support. The DefiLlama team is forking Defillama@Defillama is undergoing a hostile takeoverThere is an ongoing attempt to launch a token that does not represent us. We don’t want to be associated…