Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was recently voted Newswatch Man of the Year 2011. The radical scholar speaks to a Newswatch team of Femi Ige, chief operating officer, Bala Dan Abu, general manager, editorial, and Tobs Agbaegbu, senior associate editor, on how he was able to break the nation’s long chain of electoral failures and INEC’s plan for 2015 polls. Excerpts:

Nigerians are still counting their gains and losses resulting from the recent six-day protests against the removal of fuel subsidy

Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and convener of the Save Nigeria Group, speaks with Dike Onwuamaeze, principal staff writer, on the recent protest against the removal of fuel subsidy. Excerpts:

The ongoing public sitting by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee throws up fresh facts on fuel subsidy scandals

There is still uncertainty over the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, candidate as the February 11 date for the governorship election in Bayelsa State approaches

African countries are losing their choice lands to foreign business interests through dubious deals with political and traditional authorities in the continent