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Nigeria holds election despite violence
Nigeria's voters pressed their ink-soaked fingers to ballots Saturday, braving bomb attacks and communal violence to vote in the first round of crucial April elections in the oil-rich nation.
ATIKUlating A National Irritant
About four years ago I was at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja. Early afternoon, my partner wanted to get her hair done in the saloon and asked me to come with her. I didn’t want to go but I went only after I saw an opportunity therein to check out the..
Goodluck Jonathan wins Nigerian ruling party nomination
Nigeria's ruling party nominated incumbent Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate Friday for April's landmark vote after he fended off a challenge from the country's mainly Muslim north.
Nigeria: Court restrains Nigeria's ruling party chair from office
Nigeria's ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), got into more trouble Wednesday after an Enugu High Court, in South East Nigeria, granted an interim order restraining its National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, from parading himself as the..
Crux time for Nigeria as election cycle begins
Nigeria enters the most important three months of its recent political history this week, beginning elections which could chart its path for further reform or plunge its most volatile regions back into violence.
11 dead in new violence in central Nigerian city
Christian youths attacked a car full of Muslims returning from a wedding in central Nigeria, killing seven people inside the vehicle and sparking retaliatory violence that left one other person dead, an official said Saturday.
Nigeria: Former dictator may leave ruling party
A former military dictator of Nigeria says he may leave the ruling party and run for president after he was passed over as the party's candidate from the Muslim north.
Nobel laureate launches political party in Nigeria
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka launched a newly formed Nigerian political party Saturday, using the power of rhetoric to challenge apathetic voters in the oil-rich nation to overcome a government he called cynical and brutal.
