20110505
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has re-arrested four former bank chief executives who were sacked for mismanagement by the central bank during a $4 billion bailout in 2009, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

20110502
Daily Independent (Lagos)

Kano — There was stampede in Kano on Monday when news of the death of al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Ladin, in Pakistan via US raids spread across the city just recovering from post-election violence.

20110430
rfi

Nigeria is among the world's most dangerous countries. Nigeria has the seventh largest population in the world (nearly 160 million), and that population is a potentially explosive mixture of peoples, regions, and religions - a mixture of almost infinite complexity.

20110430
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party has won delayed governorship elections in two northern states where hundreds died in rioting after a vote two weeks ago.

20110429
Ahamefula Ogbu

President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday asked Nigerians to brace up for good governance and development after conducting a credible election that has gone a long way to repair the country's image before the international community.

20110428
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party has lost control of at least two states in governorship elections, according to results emerging on Wednesday, although it performed strongly in some parts of the mostly-Muslim north.

20110425
this day

Otueke — President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday said declaration of state of emergency in any part of the country due to violence in some States would only be considered after every other option at peace has failed.

20110425
reuters

UYO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Ballot box snatching and thuggery marred state governorship elections in parts of Nigeria on Tuesday, although there was little of the orchestrated mob violence which has undermined similar votes in the past.

20110426
Leadership (Abuja)

Often seen as the most keenly contested electoral exercise, as Nigerians file out today to vote in the governorship election, signals emanating from some states yesterday indicate that several governors are on edge in the face of tough opposition challengers. The other polls also holding today include the state house of Assembly and the postponed National Assembly ones.

20110426
reuters

UYO, Nigeria (Reuters) - After a parliamentary vote delayed by administrative chaos and a presidential election that triggered deadly rioting, Nigerians head to the polls on Tuesday to elect state governors who exert more control on their lives.

20110426
reuters

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An Islamic sect is suspected of being behind bomb blasts that killed at least two people in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, police said, two days before governorship elections in Africa's most populous nation.

20110425
This Day

Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to put the social upheavals that greeted the presidential election behind them and join hands with him to build a "Nigeria of our dreams".

20110424
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - More than 500 people were killed in post-election violence last week in the mostly Muslim north, a Nigerian human rights group said on Sunday, and it warned of further unrest during state elections.

20110423
vanguard

Akwa Ibom, Delta and Oyo states have pending political issues that necessitate closer security monitoring on Tuesday to avoid outbreak of violence.

20110422
vanguard

Prominent Nigerians are deploring the violence that erupted in some northern states in the aftermath of the presidential election and say it is unacceptable.

20110423
reuters

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least two suspected bomb-makers were killed in a blast in Kaduna in northern Nigeria on Saturday, a city at the centre of post-election violence in which hundreds of people are thought to have died this week.

20110423
reuters

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least two suspected bomb-makers were killed in a blast in Kaduna in northern Nigeria on Saturday, a city at the centre of post-election violence in which hundreds of people are thought to have died this week.

20110421
Reuters
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan vowed on Thursday that the country's final round of elections would go ahead next week despite rioting which has killed at least 100 people across the mostly-Muslim north.

20110421
leadership
The Federal Government yesterday directed the nation’s security agencies to probe incessant killings and destruction of property by thugs in the northern part of the country.

20110421
leadership
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), yesterday alleged complicity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in an alleged massive computer-aided rigging of last Saturday’s presidential election in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Buhari lamented that INEC chairman Attahiru Jega ignored the complaints of his party agents.