Ephraim Akpata attended King's College, Lagos and went on to study law.
10 Facts About Ephraim Akpata
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Ephraim Akpata became a justice of the Supreme court, retiring in 1993 at the age of 65.
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Ephraim Akpata was appointed to head the INEC in 1998 when General Abdulsalam Abubakar's Administration established the INEC to organise the transitional elections that ushered in the Nigerian Fourth Republic on 29 May 1999.
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Ephraim Akpata ruled that political parties must win local government electoral seats in at least ten states to qualify for the gubernatorial, state assembly, national assembly and presidential elections.
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In January 1999 Ephraim Akpata said that the electoral alliance announced between the Alliance for Democracy and All People's Party "appeared to contravene INEC rules".
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Ephraim Akpata said the two parties wanted to "derive the benefits of a merger without going through with one".
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The elections were largely orderly and peaceful, and Ephraim Akpata said they were free and fair.
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Ephraim Akpata told a news conference that although generally fair, there had been some voting irregularities.
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Ephraim Akpata accepted foreign election monitors from the US-based Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute, and supported their request to train thousands of local observers.
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Justice Ephraim Akpata died on 8 January 2000 at the age of 72.