If you are talking about results from a population of 2.3 million, with over 1.6 million eligible voters and 700,000 plus registered voters from which meagre figures totalling just about half of registered voters voted, as victories and loses, then you can have a field day celebrating or crying. But if you are really recognising the depressing reality and hopelessness of Nigeria under its current democracy, if we can use that term, then the results of the Ekiti election are a cause of consolidated grief and reason to ask – when will the people stand up?
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Putin proposes cancelling resolution on using Russian armed forces in Ukraine - Kremlin
"On Tuesday, before leaving for Vienna on an official visit, Putin forwarded a letter to the Federation Council, addressed to the upper chamber's Speaker, Valentina Matviyenko, asking the Federation Council to repeal its March 1, 2014 resolution No. 48-FZ "On the use of the Armed Forces of Russia on the territory of Ukraine", Peskov said.
Swedish arrest warrant for Assange should be repealed – lawyers
The Australian national denies the allegations, his lawyers said in a 13-page writ filed Tuesday at the Stockholm District Court.
US wants open and functional dialogue with Russia - US President spokesman
Ernest said that Obama and Putin communicate regularly "in a businesslike manner." "Our president certainly respects the legitimate interests of Russia in the region,” continued spokesman. “But our president also wants to make sure that everybody respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of independent countries".
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Shooting in suburbs of Miami: two killed, 17 injured - TV
The shooting in the Liberty City took place early in the morning. According to eyewitnesses, two unidentified men started random shooting in a residential area.
Associated Press reports that victims are twenty-year-old man and a teenage girl. Another 17-year-old girl is in critical condition. For now motives of the shooters remain unknown.
Kiev continues hostilities in south-eastern Ukraine.
"Today was just another day of the war. Slavyansk was shelled, as well as the city of Snezhnoye in the Donetsk Region. Recently, fighting began on the outskirts of Donetsk in the area of the airport, with the use of armoured vehicles, cannons and mortar fire," Borodai said.
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Gunmen fire on passenger airliner at Pakistani Peshawar airport
The plane was carrying 178 passengers travelling from Saudi Arabia when it came under attack, policeman Asghar Khan said at the airport.
Beirut suicide bomber kills Lebanese security officer late on Tuesday
An overnight suicide blast in Beirut's southern suburbs, Hezbollah's main bastion, killed a security officer, who had tried to stop the bomber, the General Security agency said Tuesday. No one has claimed the attack, but an audio recording posted on YouTube by a Sunni militant group said there would be more "strikes" if the Shiite movement does not pull out of Syria.
The explosion happened around midnight (21:00 GMT Monday) near an army checkpoint and cafe where football fans were watching a World Cup match.
An army statement said a suicide attacker driving a white Mercedes "blew himself up at an army checkpoint at the Tayuneh roundabout (in southern Beirut), wounding several civilians."
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Putin and OSCE Chairperson discuss situation in Ukraine on Tuesday
OSCE Chairperson-in-office Didier Burkhalter considers it necessary to find at least a part of solutions on the situation in Ukraine in the next several days, repors RIA Novosti.
Reasons P()rnography Is Harmful And You Should Beware
Today’s twenty-somethings have been exposed to more pornography, and research is showing that they’ve become more accepting of it.
I heard from a young woman the other day who didn’t get why I was anti-p()rn. “It’s a great way for my fiancé, to meet his needs when I’m not in the mood. I don’t want him to keep bugging me if I’m not into it that night. And he shouldn’t just have to ‘deal’ with frustration, either.”
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Kalu Uche’s Wife's father Found Dead In Delta Hotel Room (PICTURED)
Ex-beauty queen, Stephanie Oforka-Uche has lost her lecturer father to the cold hands of death. Professor N.C Oforka, who taught at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Port Harcourt, was found dead in a hotel room in Delta.Continue..
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Young man pushed from a motorcycle by a Police man (Photo)
The Guy pictured above named Sharafa, who works in a carwash was allegedly pushed from the motorcycle facing AP station Gberigbe along Ikorodu General Hospital on June 22nd by a police attached at the Igbogbo Divisional HQ along Igbogbo Road Barracks. The guy is now receiving treatment at another friend's house.
The DPO at the Igbogbo police station was contacted in regards to the incident but nothing has been done about any of it yet though a police source said the guy plied on restricted road.
Plane owned by US company, Global Aviation, flying from Nigeria to Gabon Missing
A 4-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has gone missing. The plane, owned by US company, Global Aviation, took off from Kano Airport around 6pm yesterday Monday June 23rd and was billed to make a stop over at Doula Cameroon before continuing to Gabon to arrive at 11pm but it never arrived at Doula, Cameroonian Aviation authorities have said. Only an American pilot was on-board.
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More than 1,000 killed in Iraq this month - UN
Most of the dead were civilians, said Rupert Colville, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He added that the tally of dead "should be viewed very much as a minimum."
It includes alleged executions of civilians and police, as well as non-fighting soldiers.
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