Barely 48 hours to Sat-urday�s presidential election, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the Pres-idential candidate of the Action Congress (AC), and his All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) counterpart, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, have disagreed on whether or not to participate in the … read more
OUTRAGE over last Saturday polls and growing disinterest in the coming elections continued to spread yesterday as extremely worried women took to the streets of Warri the Delta State capital city. Like in Imo and Ondo, 24 hours earlier, they … read more
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ruled out the possibility of postponing the coming presidential and National Assembly elections, describing calls to that effect as “unconstitutional at this juncture.” A coalition of opposition parties had risen from a meeting … read more
The Action Congress on Wednesday alleged that the violence and protests that have trailed last Saturday�s governorship and House of Assembly elections were part of a plot by President Olusegun Obasanjo to declare a state of emergency in the country … read more
U.S. Embassy ABUJA U.S. Consulate General LAGOS NIGERIA April 19, 2007 Warden Message This Warden message is being issued to inform American citizens in Nigeria about a noticeable increase in violent crime and of an increase in public political activities, … read more
Nigeria’s presidential election, threatened with an opposition boycott, will take place as planned on Saturday, an official with the electoral commission said Thursday. “The election is holding; no doubt about it,” electoral commission spokesman Segun Adeogun told AFP. The Nigerian … read more
No matter how many times Olusegun Obasanjo speaks of his plans to retire to his chicken farm after stepping down as president of Nigeria, millions still wonder whether he really means to relinquish power. Obasanjo is presiding over elections that … read more
Muslim radicals killed at least 13 police in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday to avenge the assassination of a hardline cleric four days earlier, police and witnesses said. The attackers, from an extreme Islamic sect, burned down … read more
Nigeria’s main opposition parties have called for Saturday’s presidential election to be postponed. In a statement, 18 parties also threatened to boycott the poll unless several of their conditions were met. Their demands include the annulment of last weekend’s state … read more
The United States and European Union have called on Nigeria to curb violence and take action to prevent vote-rigging in Saturday’s presidential election, while a Supreme Court ruling has added to turmoil surrounding the poll. The Independent National Electoral Commission … read more