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 There's nothing better than an election that is free and fair. The Association of Mass Communication Students (AMCOMS) had quite a number of interesting activities within the last month. After the manifesto hearing on Friday, the 29th of August, she held her departmental elections on Monday the 2nd of August, at the faculty of social science, University of Jos. According to a census generated from the total number of votes, more than 500 students participated in this year's elections. At about 10:30am, after all had been set; ballot boxes and papers provided, makers to mark thumbs of voters, the ELCOMS officials directed that voting could begin.   Students had earlier been asked to form lines according to their levels and the security men present set stones in front of them to demarcate the section not to be crossed.  Going in an order of two persons from each class, names of voters were checked according to class lists and  students were given ballot papers and som...

   Candidates for the other posts were called on stage accordingly. The post of financial secretary had two candidates: Abraham Wuyep and Obadiah Livingstone. Abraham with one of his aims for the department if elected, drew the attention of the house. He stated that he will ‘introduce a POS system for payments of departmental dues and the funds generated will be for the department’. Many questions were asked. Among them was that of who will run the POS and how a POS system can minimise temptation of misappropriation of funds. To answer this, the candidate stated that the POS keeps records of transactions made and receipts of payment will be given to students immediately. Obadiah on the other hand, presented an agenda he called TRAP; Transparency, Records, Accountability, and Proficiency. He emphasised on genuine receipts collection. Next was Joshua Shiphrah : financial secretary with the slogan, ‘Kobo-to-kobo’.    The candidate for the post of the Secretary General, ...

 “If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans, they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, ‘to hell with you" .      As part of the processes for every elections, the Association of Mass Communication Students held a manifesto hearing for her aspirants on Friday, the 30th of July, 2021. Scheduled to begin at 12:00pm, all aspirants and some onlookers were gathered at the venue on time.  The ELCOMS chairman introduced and opened the agenda for the day. Aspirants were asked to distribute printed copies of their manifestos so that all present could follow as they made their presentations.  Beginning by descending order, the first candidate was called; Dawang Emmanuel for the post of the Library Secretary. He ran through his campaign briefly and they included: making sure the library is well organised, keeping a full record of the activities of the library and his ma...