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Former Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said that the commission needs to be unbundled by the national assembly to be more effective. Jega who said this at a Citizens Town Hall on Electoral Reform organised by Yiaga Africa, European Union (EU) in collaboration with the National Assembly joint committees […]
Continue ReadingI am greatly honoured with the invitation to deliver the Keynote address at this important gathering organized by the Abuja Central Mosque, to sensitize Nigerians on the importance of such a national issue as the 2023 General Elections, which will, In Shaa Allah (God willing), hold on February 25th and March 11, 2023. I wish to […]
Continue ReadingFormer chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has accused Chris Ngige, Nigerian minister of labour and employment, of taking the industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) personal and turning it into a private dispute. Jega in an interview on Arise TV, alleged that Ngige is having […]
Continue ReadingThe issue of leadership recruitment at all levels of governance in our country, is central to our current national predicament; and getting it right is key to the resolution of our poor governance and development processes. We evidently have been recruiting and appointing or electing inappropriate leaders, quite often, round pegs in square holes, and […]
Continue ReadingThere was a time in this country when one single person was acting prime minister, acting minister of finance and substantive minister of defence. How would a man perform the functions of those offices simultaneously without having an accident? It happened that during that interesting period, the question of purchasing a new office for the ministry of […]
Continue ReadingThere is currently an upsurge of passionate demands for “restructuring”, “true federalism” and “actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra”. These demands are intricately intertwined and interconnected, and so vociferous that they are overheating the polity. Sooner than later, these matters have to be addressed squarely but dispassionately. The challenge is on how to address […]
Continue ReadingBeing paper presented at the Convocation lecture, University of Ibadan, on Thursday, November 11, 2019 by Professor Attahiru Jega, former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and now a Professor of Political Science, Bayero University in Kano. He analysed elections in Nigeria, the flaws that characterise them, how to ensure their integrity and the […]
Continue ReadingFormer chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has called on the commission, to improve the electoral processes before the 2023 general elections. Speaking at Tell Magazine’s 20 years of democracy conference in Abuja on Wednesday, Jega noted that if care was not taken, the prediction of US Central Intelligence Agency […]
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