Prof Nnenna Oti

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5 Things You Don't Know About Professor Nnenna Oti (iBrandTV)

Professor Nnenna Oti has over 34 years of academic, teaching, research, and administration experience in the Nigerian university system.

Professor Nnenna Nnannaya-Oti was the Returning Office of INEC in Abia State. As a result, we have put together for you five amazing facts about Professor Nnenna. She is a three-time Head of the Department of Soil Science and Technology in the School of Agricultural and Agriculture Technology (SAAT) and the immediate past chairman of the Gender Policy Unit. She earned a Bachelor of Agriculture (B.Agric) in Soil Science from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN (with First Class Honors). She had promised the voters in the state that she would do the right thing to protect the will of the people and Nigeria’s democratic values. In fact she declared the result of the governorship election.

Fact-Check: Did FUTO VC, Professor Oti Accuse INEC Chairman of ... (PR Nigeria News)

Claim: A post was widely circulated on social media and news blogs that Professor Nnenna Oti, the Returning Officer for the Abia state governorship election ...

[PRNigeria](https://prnigeria.com/) further examined the clip which was at a briefing covered by Channels TV and other media platforms but there was nowhere in the clip that Prof Oti accused the INEC Chairman of moving to subvert the wishes of Abia electorate. [PRNigeria](https://prnigeria.com/), therefore, concludes that the claim that Prof. [PRNigeria](https://prnigeria.com/) reveals that Professor Oti did not accuse the INEC Chairman of subverting Abia elections. Rather, the Returning Officer wanted the official communication on the Commission’s decision to suspend the collation of results in Abia State. At that point, she asked the Administrative Secretary to read the message she said that came from the INEC headquarters Abuja.” But she told them she was a mother, a pastor, & will do her duty to God & man!

Nnenna Nnannaya Oti (Professor) - Vice-Chancellor, Federal ... (Businessday.ng)

Nnenna Nnannaya Oti is from Afikpo, Ebonyi State. A dignified and accomplished scholar, Nnenna is a Professor of Soil Science...

A Fellow of the Soil Science Society of Nigeria, Prof. In 2002, Nnenna broke an unusual record when she won the NUC – Best PhD in Nigeria Award. In the recently concluded governorship elections in Abia state and as INEC returning officer, she said “The pastor and the mother in me will not permit me to do anything that will adversely affect the future of our children”.

Engage more women of proven integrity like Prof Oti as returning ... (Vanguard)

Say Abia guber poll meets int'l commendation. By Steve Oko. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been urged to engage more women of ...

The observers decried voter apathy which was more pronounced during the governorship and house of assembly elections, a development they blamed on discouragement arising from the manipulations that characterised the presidential and national assembly elections. They advised INEC against the usual dependence on Road Transport Workers for the movement of election materials and personnel as they cause unnecessary delays in the process. On security, they said:” Many polling units we observed in this election had no security personnel on duty which was very unprofessional of the security agencies despite the assurances that the security agencies repeatedly gave to the electoral body and the government and citizens regarding the safety and peace during the election”.

Guber polls: International Group recommends Abia REC for future ... (Daily Sun)

From Okey Sampson, Umuahia. An international group, Pan African Women Projects (PAWP), a non-governmental organisation of women from 54 countries, ...

It therefore urged INEC to use drone in future elections for distribution of electoral materials and to engage the services of trained ad-hoc staff as electoral officers to avoid what happened in the just concluded polls. PAWP said it equally observed pockets of violence and intimidation of voters in the three Senatorial zones of Abia, noting that the violence was perpetrated across party lines. Describing Prof Oti as a woman of integrity, the group equally said her recommendation was based on the wonderful roles she played in her duty post as Abia REC during the governorship election,

Pan-African women group commends Abia INEC REC's integrity (Daily Post Nigeria)

An international group, Pan African Women Projects has extolled the virtues of the INEC Returning Officer for Abia governorship election, Prof Nnenna Oti.

The Pan African Women Projects equally observed pockets of violence and intimidation of voters in the three senatorial zones of Abia, noting that the violence was perpetrated across party lines. In a press statement by Ms Bontela Matjila, spokesperson of Pan African Women Projects, as affirmed by Dr Mrs Eno Udensi, the group explained that the findings from the governorship and House of Assembly elections they monitored in Abia State met “international commendations of a free, transparent and peaceful conduct of electoral process.” The group, a non-governmental organisation of women from 54 countries, commended Prof Oti for ensuring that the mandates and votes of the people counted in the last guber polls in Abia State while also recommending her, and other women of integrity, for future electoral duties as Returning Officer.

Breaking: Man gifts INEC governorship collation officer highly-rated ... (Blueprint newspapers Limited)

A Nigerian businessman based in Abia state, Steve Ukpabi, has gifted a new Toyota Prado SUV, to the Abia state governorship officer, Professor Nnenna Oti, ...