{"id":167602,"date":"2025-08-08T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167602"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:18:21","slug":"the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167602","title":{"rendered":"The Engineer Who Secured Nigeria\u2019s Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2000, when electrical engineer Steve A. Adeshina joined Nigeria\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as director of information and communication technology, the country had just held its first successful democratic general elections in 17 years. The 1999 elections were generally peaceful, if not entirely reliable&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/modernizing-nigerian-voting-system\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2000, when electrical engineer Steve A. Adeshina joined Nigeria\u2019s Independent National Electoral Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy.png",980,654,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy-768x513.png",640,428,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy.png",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy.png",980,654,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy.png",980,654,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy.png",980,654,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy-825x575.png",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167602-the-engineer-who-secured-nigerias-democracy-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}