Academician turned election regulator, Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola was formerly provost of the Oyo State College of Education before his appointment as a Resident Electoral Commission, REC in 2011. Dr. Ogunmola in this interview reviews the 2011 general election and efforts by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to build upon the success achieved. Experts:

SINCE May 29, 1999 when Nigeria’s ongoing nascent democracy commenced, the giant of Africa has set this date for an annual ritual of celebrating a continuous and unabated democratic rule aimed at consolidating this global political value as well as creating awareness on the need for our democratic operators to improve on its dividends.

Nigeria was heartbroken when the news of the demise of erstwhile Ekiti State deputy governor Eunice Oluwafunmilayo Adunni Olayinka, also fondly referred to as Moremi. It sparked a whole new spate of awareness about breast cancer, the monster that claimed the life of the quiet beauty, and about her successor, who would have to comfort her electorate as well as her teeming fans.

Less than a week after they were ushered into the Big Brother Africa house, eviction fever has already gripped the housemates.

Justice Ibrahim Saulawa of the Court of Appeal, Lagos, yesterday, declined hearing in the appeal by Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan, challenging the death sentence handed them by a Lagos State High Court.

The Director General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri has challenged critics of President Goodluck Jonathan to offer constructive ideas that would help the administration plan ahead for the future.

It was one Hamas activist, Muhammad Abu Wardeh, who was reported to be recruiting terrorists for suicide bombings in Israel more than a decade ago that said: “God would compensate the martyr for sacrificing his life for his land. If you become a martyr, God will give you 70 virgins, 70 wives and everlasting happiness.” All the informed Muslims knew certainly that Wardeh was only shortchanging his recruits.

The first lady,Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, said she had no hand in the suspension of the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

A non-govermental organisation, Asabe Shehu Yar’Adua Foundation, ASYF, has decried what it called the uncaring attitude of many public officers, well-meaning individuals and corporate bodies to the appalling poverty which pervades the Nigerian society.

His early days in office were very annoying. He was so slow and elicited an impression in some quarters that he had no agenda for the state. Months passed, he did not appoint commissioner. The opposition at a time even threatened to evoke appropriate provisions of the 1999 Constitution to force him to assemble his Cabinet.