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Boko Haram’s suicide attacks on the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, last Friday, 26 August, which killed 19 people (9 of them UN staff) and injured scores of others, represent a...
United Nations (UN) Development Programme resident representative Dr Agostinho Zacarias said on Monday that some people injured in the UN bomb blasts in Nigeria would be receiving treatment in...
Over the past few weeks I visited Nigeria and specifically Lagos and Abuja. I know the country well, having spent the better part of an academic year there shortly after independence in the early...
The 2011 general elections in Nigeria are considered to have been the most peaceful in the country’s turbulent history, despite 200 people dying in the aftermath of the vote. The electoral...
Stepping outside Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikwe Airport in early March, I was suddenly aware of a convoy of SUV’s and other sleek vehicles leaving the parking lot. It looked presidential, but the small...
On 2 April 2011, 73 million Nigeria gathered in polling stations across the country to cast their vote for the parliamentary elections. The accreditation process was supposed to end by 12:00...
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday unveiled an ambitious $10 billion plan to harness the country's vast gas reserves and develop a petrochemical and fertiliser industry, weeks before...
A white paper released by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in 2002 defines electoral conflict and violence as “any random or organised act or threat to intimidate,...