Informes

Abuja — The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has moved all elections in Kaduna and Bauchi States from Tuesday, April 26, to Thursday, April 28, owing to security concerns following the deadly riots in those states. The…

The Office of the Prosecutor is closely following on the situation in Nigeria and is concerned with the outbreak of violence surrounding the National Assembly and Presidential elections of April 2011. In the context of its on-going…

Abuja/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Red Cross Society are responding swiftly to the urgent needs of thousands of people displaced in the city of Kano and elsewhere…

Scores have been killed in Muslim-Christian violence after this weekend's relatively clean presidential election, highlighting that the age of 'do-or-die' politics and 'thugs-for-hire' networks is not dead in Nigeria. By Maggie Fick, Correspondent / April 20, 2011 Kano…

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Peace is gradually returning to Nigeria's northern region, wracked by spontaneous violence in protest against Saturday's presidential election in Africa's most populous nation. The candidate whose defeat triggered the violence, retired army general…

Violence erupted in various parts of the North over results of last Saturday's presidential election claiming several lives and property. The violence was reported in various parts of Kaduna, Bauchi, Yobe, Niger, Borno, Jigawa, and Nasarawa states…

April 2011 | On the Issues by David R. Smock April 19, 2011 USIP’s David Smock discusses the recent presidential election in Nigeria and the challenges ahead for the African nation. What are the results of Nigeria’s…

KANO, Nigeria, April 19 (Reuters) - Medics in northern Nigeria on Tuesday treated hundreds of victims of rioting against President Goodluck Jonathan's election victory, some of them children with gunshot and machete wounds. The Red Cross said…

April 18, 2011 Author: John Campbell, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies International observers have deemed as credible incumbent Goodluck Jonathan's election victory in Nigeria's April 16 presidential elections. The question is whether the north,…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is calling for calm after days of electoral violence following a presidential vote that most observers believe was largely free and fair. But the political party that finished second says Jonathan's re-election…