The senate of the federal republic of Nigeria, Thursday, 24th of June this year for our lord, cleared Professor Attahiru Jega as the new chairman of theIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC), thus replacing Professor Maurice Iwu. His nomination by President Jonathan Goodluck delivered a big bag of mixed feelings. Some say he has a good stead to deliver, while many more think he is not that pristine.

What first sent the jitters was  what the president  told the press before his appointment was made public; he

IT SEEMS outrageous at first glance: legislators in a country in which hundreds of millions live in poverty wish to vote themselves a fivefold rise in their modest 16,000 rupee ($400) monthly salary. Outrage has certainly been the tone of much of the Indian press since a parliamentary committee recommended the salary increase this week. The case, though, is not straightforward and the public row goes to deeper frustrations on all sides.

I find I. Ebite response to an article published on elombah.com (Government corruption leading to unsafe nation) Interesting. Mr Ebite opined that Nigeria’s corruption problem is not all about government corruption. He added that Government corruption is a problem all over the world so, even if you reduce government corruption in Nigeria, little will change. That reminded of an article published yesterday by the Associated Press: ‘Spain probes 3,000 Swiss bank accounts for fraud’

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has debunked the claim made in a newspaper interview by former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida that he had tea with him in the home of Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, 28 April, the day the latter staged the ‘One man, One Vote’ rally in Benin.

During World War 1, a team of psychologists, according to The Psychological Review, assisted the US army to rapidly assess and assign huge numbers of personnel. They developed a rating scale to classify and place enlisted men according to how they used their intelligence, and The US Army was enthusiastic about Scott’s classification of personnel. By the time the war ended, the psychologists had already been incorporated into

Press Statement: Attahiru Jega Must Not Disappoint Nigerians - MakeYourVotesCount.org welcomes the appointment and confirmation of Prof. Attahiru Jega, former ASUU president and current Vice Chancellor, Bayero University, Kano, as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

As soon as Akpabio was (s)elected a Governor, he began referring to himself as a Barrister. Such a false claim was contrary to the ethics of the Nigerian Bar Association. The body had to send a “cease and desist“ warning letter to Governor Akpabio to stop referring to himself as a Barrister. It is okay if the media and others refer to Akpabio as Barrister, but Akpabio himself cannot claim that he is in-fact a Barrister.

Almost everyone is attesting to the fact that a radical man has finally come to be the INEC chairman. Most newspapers, if not all, published the arrival of a radical in INEC. Suprisingly, even the president seemed to be unaware of the calibre of person he appointed to occupy the much unstable position. It would be recalled that, before announcing Jega's appointment after a meeting of the National Council of State, Jonathan had