The dream of Boy Westerhof of Holland was to win the first leg of the 10th Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Championship, but he got a shock of his life when was sent packing by Isreali Amir Weintraub in a quarter final match played at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.

When the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, announced the sack of chief executives and other top management of five banks on August 14, 2009, the financial sector was shaken to its root. The banks affected were Intercontinental Bank, Union Bank, Afri Bank, Oceanic Bank and Fin Bank.

Mr Uchenna Emelonye, is International Development Law Organisation, IDLO, Manager, Governance, Institutional and Justice Reform Programmes. IDLO is an international inter-governmental organisation with the mandate to pursue the establishment of rule of law as an essential pre-condition for economic and social development and the achievement of human security. Emelonye’s mandate include overseeing IDLO’s rule of law and good governance initiatives in developing countries, countries in economic transition and in those emerging from armed conflict.

A coalition of civil society groups, Joint Action Forum, JAF, and organised labour have kicked against Federal Government’s planned privatisation of Power Holding Companies of Nigeria, PHCN, and said they would begin a mass protest and civil disobedience across the country to resist the policy on October 25.

In less than 12 years of our return to ‘democratic’ governance, Nigeria has had more than four electoral laws passed. The frequency of this ‘reform’ at each election turn and the geometrical decline in our election fortunes suggests a fundamental lacuna and a philosophical deficiency in our orientation especially as it relates to democratic governance. What is the basic philosophy behind our electoral reforms?