Nigeria will proceed with national gubernatorial elections Tuesday, despite continuing violence that has raised fears that an Islamist group will step up attacks against voters. Bomb blasts Monday in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno killed three people and wounded dozens, … read more
Heavy security measures are in place all over the country today as voters in 25 states go to the polls to elect governors and members of state Houses of Assembly, our correspondents reported yesterday. In addition to the governorship and … read more
The explosion of deadly unrest after Nigeria’s presidential election saw clashes between Christians and Muslims, but had more to do with poverty in the country’s north than religion, analysts said Sunday. Observers have hailed the April 16 vote won by … read more
Millions of Nigerians will be going to the polls in a few hours to vote in governorship and state assembly elections, but uncertainty remains regarding the possibility of holding free and fair elections in parts of the north. Thousands of … read more
More than 1,000 Public Servants in the Nigerian State of Ekiti have been suspended for becoming too involved in the recent national elections. A lobby group in the State, the Ekiti Positive Forum (EPF), has alleged that the PS staff … read more
A Nigerian human rights group announced Sunday that at least 500 people were killed in violence that followed last week’s election of President Goodluck Jonathan. Relief officials say more than 65,000 people have been displaced. The Civil Rights Congress of … read more
The discovery that the names and logos of two of the eight political parties participating in tomorrow’s gubernatorial election in Niger State are missing from the ballot papers is threatening the smooth conduct of the poll. The state resident electoral … read more
Nigeria’s main opposition party on Saturday called for a forensic analysis of the ballots cast in about a third of the states in last weekend’s presidential poll, alleging they were inflated in favour of the incumbent. The Congress for Progressive … read more
Authorities in Nigeria have beefed up security nationwide ahead of the gubernatorial polls to be held on Tuesday in a bid to prevent the recurrence of violent riots that led over 200 people dead following the recent presidential elections. “We … read more
At least 8 persons including a wanted notorious chieftain of the Boko Haram sect have been arrested by the police in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State over last Friday’s bomb explosion that rocked the state. State commissioner of police John Haruna … read more