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Under 24 hours to the governorship decision in Osun State, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, has cautioned lawmakers not to misjudge the commission's constituent guidelines for their narrow minded points. Agbaje was responding to the affirmations that the commission had set an aggregate prohibition on the use of cell phones and cameras at surveying units. Talking on Friday at a question and answer session at the commission's office in Osogbo, the state capital, the REC said it was not genuine that the commission had requested that voters not come to surveying units with their telephones. He cleared up that the commission just requested that voters not hold their telephones inside the voting desk area, in an offer to control vote-purchasing, a wonder that has damaged decisions previously. He stated, "It is essential to by and by eliminate any confusion air on some ridiculous affirmations being hawked around by some basic partners, for example, t...

Somewhere around 136 individuals have kicked the bucket after a ship conveying several individuals upset on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, authorities say. Many are missing and it is expected that in excess of 200 individuals altogether may have suffocated. Protect endeavors continued on Friday in the wake of being ended medium-term. The MV Nyerere ship upset close Ukara island on its way from Bugorora. It is thought the over-burden vessel tipped over when swarms on board moved to the other side as it docked. Protect tasks on Africa's greatest lake have included police and armed force jumpers, and also little private water crafts and neighborhood anglers. The BBC's Aboubakar Famau in Tanzania says fear has held inhabitants of the Mwanza locale as they hold up to hear the destiny of relatives who went on the MV Nyerere on Thursday. "I got a consider disclosing to me that I have lost my close relative, father and my more youthful sibling," says Editha Josephat Magesa, a nearb...