The attempt, last Wednesday, by Professor Attahiru Jega, National Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to explain away the inherent incongruity in allocating Polling Units, PUs, to states of the federation with less probability of having more voting population, an exercise that should have been carried out relying on field data, only served to further pour cold water on the Chairman of Nigeria’s election management body.

Ayo Adewemimo is not your regular kind of teenager. He is not the typical 17-year-old adolescent that relishes boyish acts such as playing hooky from school or indulging in a three-a-side football game on a cold, wet afternoon. And perish any thought of hoping to observe Ayo having the time of his life at an all-night party or sneaking out for a joyride in the family car. Young Ayo just isn’t the outgoing type.

The people started taking vantage positions as early as 7am for an event slated for 3pm that luminous Saturday. They came in droves. Some emerged through footpaths traversing the Sahel forests; others alighted from exotic limousines, decorated buses and cars while many others, including women and children, trooped into the arena by foot but in ecstasy

A Nigerian medical student returning to school in Ukraine tells the story of how he nearly died at the hands of Egypt Air officials who wrongly routed him to Moldova, never gave him food for days and called him bloody Nigerian before deporting him back to Lagos

This is where things started to fall apart between Boko Haram and politicians/government officials in Borno State. Available reports point to some sort of disagreement between the group and some politicians following the 2007 elections (e.g. over monthly stipends payable to the group). This was followed by recurring clashes between Boko Haram members and the local police, especially over police harassment and arrest of Boko Haram members.