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How Nigeria's presidential election works Muhammadu Buhari Goodluck Jonathan Mr Jonathan is facing a strong challenge from Muhammadu Buhari. The election is said to be the most closely fought since independence. President Goodluck Jonathan faces tough opposition from Muhammadu Buhari The rise of Islamist group Boko Haram in the north-east has put security at the centre of their election campaigns, but the candidates are at odds over how to handle the insurgency in Africa's biggest oil producer. Boko Haram has recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Nigeria's presidential election, postponed until 28 March, promises to be a closely fought rematch between incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari. New biometric cards are required for user registration At a polling station outside Abuja, voter Jibrin said he would wait all day and night to cast his vote Many had to queue for hours to register and vote The elections were ...

For Dora Akunyili The media advisor to former Minister of Information, Dora Akunyili, Isaac Umunna, has denied reports circulating on social media that the former minister is dead. “My attention has been drawn to the  rumor  circulating on social media claiming that immediate past Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, is dead. "When the rumour that Professor Dora Akunyili, former information minister, was very ill started, I didn’t get the real sense of what people were talking about until I saw her photograph. I am not sure I have fully accepted the photograph I saw as Dora’s. If I had met the person in that photograph in the street, I would have walked away without knowing she was the one because that image was hardly that of the ebullient and lively Dora I had known for a long time. The photograph would leave you in no doubt that Dora Akunyili is indeed terribly ill. She is currently in India receiving treatment for an ailment that...

a Here’s Why Nigeria Hasn’t Yet Found Its 300 Missing Girls " Here’s Why Nigeria Hasn’t Yet Found Its 300 Missing Girls "       Share on email The world isn’t just aware of the plight of three hundred girls kidnapped from their boarding school in Nigeria now. It has become, finally, invested. Globally, people are demanding that the Nigerian government do more to find the 276 girls still missing, while a hashtag,  #BringBackOurGirls , unites the web behind their cause. The world is eager to see the girls, stolen away in the night three weeks ago, returned. But part of the reason why the girls remain abducted lies in just how the government has waged its war against the terrorists who carried out the kidnapping over the last half a decade. And the terrorists who hold them captive remain an unpredictable factor, leaving even experts unsure just how to bring about their freedom from the men determined to prevent them from gaining an education....