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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.

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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.

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Reuters
LAGOS (Reuters) - Election spending in Nigeria boosted demand for new vehicles in January and February, with car imports rising for the first time in 18 months as political parties splashed out on vehicles for their campaign tours.

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Abuja — The National Council of State (NCS) Tuesday rose from a five-hour meeting and asked the Federal Government to deploy military, riot police, the regular police and other security agencies in the streets across the country, 48 hours before the general election which begins on April 2.

20110328
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Violence during Nigeria's elections which begin this week is a concern but is unlikely to disrupt the overall process, the head of the Commonwealth election observer mission said on Monday.

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The escalating pre-election violence in the country may be met with a stiff crackdown as the Federal Government prepares to deploy massive security measures ahead of the polls.

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reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan promised thousands of his supporters on Saturday he would create jobs, improve infrastructure and give women a larger role in government if he wins elections in two weeks.

20110318
reuters

ABUJA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A debate for presidential candidates in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, kicked off on Friday in Abuja, the country's capital city to steer this year's general elections issues on public policy and good governance.

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reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission on Friday rejected opposition calls to alter the date for presidential elections because the timetable favours the ruling party, saying time was too short for any such change.

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allafrica

Washington, DC — The Obama administration's top Africa official, Johnnie Carson, has given the head of Nigeria's election commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, strong public backing.

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xinhua

LAGOS, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's main militant group The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) warned in a statement on Monday that it will soon commence with simultaneous bomb blasts and attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta and other strategic locations in the capital city Abuja and the business hub Lagos.

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reuters

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Attackers armed with guns and machetes killed six people in two separate raids on central Nigerian villages late on Sunday, in the latest act of sectarian violence that has troubled Plateau state for months.

20110312
REUTERS

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Security forces in the central Nigerian city of Jos seized a truck laden with bomb-making equipment on Friday, less than three months after explosions tore through Christmas Eve celebrations.

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reuters

JOS, Nigeria, Mrach. 11 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops operating in central north Plateau State have seized a full truck load of sophisticated ammunitions.

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reuters

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria has completed a new 74-million-strong voter register it hopes will help ensure credible elections next month, but insecurity and the partiality of the courts remain challenges to a free and fair vote.

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Xinhua
LAGOS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Undisclosed numbers of lives have been lost on Wednesday in Suleija, central north Nigeria's Niger State when a bomb blast exploded during political rally organized by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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Xinhua
ABUJA, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Atahiru Jega has said the commission had mapped out a strategy to ensure credible elections in April.

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Xinhua
JOS, Nigeria, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The police in northern Nigeria's restless Plateau State has arraigned 40 suspects for their alleged involvement in rioting and being in possession of illegal weapons in the state.

20110228
reuters

A Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting governorship elections in Kogi, Adamawa, Sokoto, Bayelsa and Cross River states. In his judgment which lasted for more than an hour in the consolidated suits by Governors Ibrahim Idris (Kogi), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Timipriye Sylva (Bayelsa) and Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Justice Adamu Bello held that there were no vacancies in the affected states for now.

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President Goodluck Jonathan this weekend rallied his supporters including the opposition to join hands with him in nation building, affirming that indeed "no President works and achieve any milestone alone."