20110410
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party looked set to see its parliamentary majority weaken as results trickled in on Sunday from an election Africa's most populous nation hopes will be its first credible vote in almost two decades.

20110409
rfi

Polling stations opened in Nigeria on Saturday morning, a week after parliamentary elections were originally due to take place.

20110409
Daily Independent (Lagos)

About twenty-five persons were killed as bomb explosion rocked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office located in the Kwamba area of Suleja, Niger State on Friday.

20110409
rfi

Fresh fighting broke out in the east of Libya in Saturday, as world leaders announced new talks to try and reach a ceasefire.

20110409
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerians voted in a delayed parliamentary election on Saturday, determined to hold a credible poll in Africa's most populous nation despite chaotic organisation and violence.

20110409
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - An explosion hit a polling booth in a neighbourhood of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri during a parliamentary election on Saturday, an emergency official said.

20110408
This Day

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, Thursday postponed Senate and House of Representatives elections in 15 senatorial districts and 48 federal constituencies across 27 states of the federation.

20110408
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Nigeria's $500 million Eurobond rallied sharply on Friday and its yield premium to U.S. Treasuries fell, as investors bet that oil's surge to 32-month highs would help investors overcome pre-election jitters.

20110407
Reuters
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities have arrested scores of opposition members in the southeastern state of Akwa Ibom in a campaign of intimidation ahead of elections, opposition lawyers and rights activists said on Thursday.

20110406
reuters

Abuja — The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of applying undue pressure on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega.

20110406
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan backed the country's embattled polls chief on Tuesday, saying he had been left with no option but to postpone general elections after voting materials failed to arrive on time.

20110404
allafrica

Abuja — As Nigeria's attempt to hold parliamentary elections—the first round of a three-stage vote set for this month in Africa's most populous nation—floundered this weekend, there was no shortage of opinions from would-be voters across the country as they reacted to vote.

20110404
Vanguard

Abuja — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, launched a stock taking mechanism to ensure that materials already used in some parts of the country before the postponement of last Saturday's elections were not used in subsequent elections.

20110404
reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria faces an uphill struggle to salvage credible elections from administrative chaos after aborting its first round of polling this weekend, but the move at least shows some determination to try to get things right.

20110403
vanguard

Lagos — The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, led by Professor Attahiru Jega, has rescheduled the voting dates for the 2011 general elections.

20110204
this day

Lagos — A statement by Professor Attahiru M. Jega, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman:

20110402
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria postponed parliamentary elections until Monday after voting materials failed to arrive in many areas, a major blow to hopes of a break with a history of chaotic polls in Africa's most populous nation.

20110402
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's parliamentary elections were postponed in the capital Abuja and several other parts of Africa's most populous nation on Saturday because voting materials failed to reach polling stations.

20110402
Reuters
The Nigerian electoral commission authorities say they have decided to put off the nationwide elections because of organizational and logistic problems.

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presstv
Nigerians are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the first round of general elections against a background of rampant violence in the run-up to the vote.