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INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega has just announced the final results of the presidential elections of 8 States in Nigeria. The States are Ogun, Enugu, Kogi, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo, Nasarawa and the FCT, Abuja. And here are the official final results as announced by him. This is the one you should believe.

OGUN: APC 308,290, PDP 207,950
ENUGU: APC 14,157 PDP: 553,003
KOGI: APC 264, 857 PDP: 149,987
EKITI: APC - 120, 331 PDP - 176, 466 (wins)
OSUN: APC 383,603  PDP: 249,929
ONDO: AOC 299,889 PDP:251,368
OYO: APC 528,620  PDP:303,376
NASARAWA: APC 236,838  PDP:273,460

FCT, ABUJA: APC 146,399 PDP: 157,195

The commission has reconvened to 8pm tonight, when other results from other states would have been ready

Female Sierra Leonean students who got pregnant during the eight-month long Ebola Virus Disease induced break will not be allowed to return to school, the country's government has said.

Sierra Leone's Education Minister, Minkailu Bah, said girls who are visibly pregnant will not be allowed to join their classmates in primary and secondary schools.
Schools were shut as the highly contagious Ebola disease spread to Sierra Leone in May 2014, eventually infecting about 11,301 people and killing 3,461, according to the Wikipedia.
The girls, who have already lost 8-months of education, would feel double pain with the announcement.
But, after a meeting of the Conference of Principals, the country's principals agreed to support Bah's announcement.
The chairman of the Conference of Principals, Sylvester Meheux, said the decision to keep pregnant student away from the classrooms is to protect the other girls.
"In our own culture, in the secondary school, they don't allow girls who are visibly pregnant to go and take exams," Meheux said.
"We have a belief that it will encourage other girls to do the same thing.
"Others will copy that example, and we'll have a lot of them [pregnant girls] in our school system."
Meheux explained that pregnant girls need to be counselled, especially with the 'distractions' of pregnancy.
"Education is a discipline. In the absence of discipline, learning doesn't take place," he said.
"You should also realise that when someone is pregnant, you have some distractions, things that will not make you compose yourself, to take your education seriously."
Amnesty International's West Africa researcher, Sabrina Mahtani, told rfi English that the government's decision is discrimination.
"This is not a favour [to pregnant girls], this is a fundamental human right to education," Mahtani said.
"And these girls have a right not to be discriminated against, and also have a right not to be stigmatised just because they're girls."
She argues that some of the girls got pregnant in circumstances beyond their control.
"And there has been a reported increase in sexual violence as well as a reported increase in pressure on girls to engage in transactional sex due to the very harsh economic impacts of Ebola," she said.
It is an unspoken rule in Sierra Leone's education system that pregnant girls will not be allowed to mix with girls who are not pregnant.

The US and UK government have released a joint statement appraising last Saturday's general elections. According to the statement posted on UK's Foreign affairs website here, both government said the elections have largely been peaceful but that there are disturbing indications of political interference in the collation of results. The statement below...
Our governments welcome the largely peaceful vote on 28 March. The Nigerian people have shown a commendable determination to register their vote and choose their leaders. So far, we have seen no evidence of systemic manipulation of the process. But there are disturbing indications that the collation process - where the votes are finally counted - may be subject to deliberate political interference.
This would contravene the letter and spirit of the Abuja Accord, to which both major parties committed themselves. The Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom would be very concerned by any attempts to undermine the independence of the Electoral Commission (INEC), or its Chairman, Prof Jega; or in any way distort the expressed will of the Nigerian people.