Maiduguri

9. April 2011 | 15:01

3 die in an attack by radical sect members and police chase in northeast Nigeria, police say

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Authorities say that a broad-daylight attack in Nigeria’s restive northeast has left three dead days before election polls open. (News Source: The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News - 14:25:28)

Blast at polling station in northern Nigeria

LAGOS, April 9 (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. (News Source: AlertNet - 12:46:23)

Nigeria voting slowly starts after bombing

Nigeria’s voters put their inked fingers to ballots Saturday for the first round in the nation’s crucial April election, coming out to vote despite bomb attacks and communal violence. (News Source: Seattle Times - 12:43:32)

Voting starts slowly across oil-rich Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, after bomb attack

IBADAN, Nigeria - Nigeria slowly began the first of three crucial votes in the oil-rich nation Saturday, as voters came out to cast ballots despite a bomb attack and threats of violence. (News Source: Washington Post - 10:23:48)

3 die in sect attack and police chase in Nigeria

The Associated Press The Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Authorities say that a broad-daylight attack in Nigeria’s restive northeast has left three dead days before election polls open. Borno state’s new police chief, Michael Zuokumor, said three motorcycle-mounted gunmen killed two passers-by Wednesday in the city of Maiduguri and that one of the suspects was shot dead after a police chase … (News Source: The San Francisco Examiner - 14:51:19)

Reports of stolen ballots, fighting, bomb blast precede 1st of Nigeria’s 3 crucial elections

IBADAN, Nigeria - Gang members hired by politicians beat an election official and steal ballot papers. Bus loads of thugs harass opposition parties. A bomb detonates without an apparent target. (News Source: Washington Post - 16:14:09)

Bomb hits Nigeria election office

A bomb blast kills at least six people at Nigeria’s election commission office in the central town of Suleja, hours before election polls are to open. (News Source: BBC News - 19:02:53)

Nigeria pushes back polls after logistics chaos

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria postponed parliamentary and presidential elections by one week Sunday after failing to get logistics prepared in time, a major embarrassment for a nation hoping to break with a history of chaotic polls. (News Source: Reuters - 12:46:53)

Suspected bomb attack precedes 1st Nigeria vote

A blast tore through an election office Friday in Nigeria on the eve of the first of the oil-rich nation’s three crucial elections, signs of trouble reminiscent of its flawed 2007 vote. … (News Source: Fox News - 20:47:01)