This is the first of a two-part report on Anambra governorship election scheduled for February 6. It focuses on the umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and its preparations for the poll.

As living witnesses to the shambolic toga that elections in Nigeria have become, Nigerians are again expressing scepticism as the election for the governorship of Anambra State gets closer.

YOU would not believe he was the grotesque-looking boy from Ekuma-Abavo in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State whose father died in 1974 when he was just 12 years. Years after, he became visible at site of every new structure in town, carrying either blocks or granite or doing the menial jobs to make ends meet or clearing bush or people’s farms of weeds, as the case may be, to enable his family put food on the table and also pay his school fees.

By I se Oluwa Ige The constitutional suit maintained by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) against the Federal Government over the failure by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to activate the provisions of section 145 of the 1999 constitution when he was proceeding on medical leave 23 November 2009 to enable Jonathan Goodluck perform the presidential […]

EMINENT professor of Political Science, Kimse Okoko is a reporter’s delight any day. He bared his mind on issues without minding whose ox is gored. He is currently president, Conference of Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta (CENND), a platform at the forefront of agitation for political space for the region. He was also the immediate past president, Ijaw National Congress, (INC).

The Presidency is committed to a free and fair election. And he has said it many times before now and even when we spoke. If you look at Guardian of April, 30th 2009, the President said, “on the day of my inauguration in May 2007, I pledged to undertake this electoral reforms.