QUOTES OF THE WEEK   

Prof. Attahiru Jega INEC Bos.

If we deploy all the equipment and all the logistics that are required, in two weeks we will have the capacity to register up to70 million registrable voters. The challenge now is to have the money and to give the contracts and get everything ready before or latest by the third week of October.

—Attahiru Jega, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, giving conditions for producing a new and credible voters register.

Nwodo

The days of buying an election; the days of not doing primaries and be nominated as candidates are over and over forever. We have said that we are returning the party to the people.

—Okwesilieze Nwodo, National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, assuring members of the party of a level playing field in the 2011 election.

Onovo

Since these criminal elements have dared the might of the police and the might of the Federal Government, it has come to a point where we have to pay them in their own coin.

—Ogbonna Onovo, Inspector-General of Police, reiterating police readiness to stem the increase in cases of kidnapping in the South-East

The challenge we face now is the neglect of the primary and secondary education, which makes university education difficult. It is not easy to educate the children today, but it is the best investment parents can make.

Pro. Pat Utomi.

—Pat Utomi, Chairman, Lagos Business School, blaming the problem of tertiary education in Nigeria on the neglect of the nation’s school system.