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Nigerian authorities said they will investigate whether the military complied with the rules of engagement in a clash with Islamist militants that a local official said left 185 people dead, mostly civilians.
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Action Congress of Nigeria, the country’s main opposition party, approved a plan to merge with two parties and a faction of a third ahead of the elections in 2015, an official said.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan , who is leading in the vote count in Nigeria’s presidential elections, is also close to meeting the constitutional requirement of winning a quarter of the votes in two-thirds of 36 states, which would give him victory in Africa’s top oil-producing nation.
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President Goodluck Jonathan extended his lead in Nigeria’s presidential vote with about half the results released, having 9.5 million votes compared with 5.3 million for his closest rival, Muhammadu Buhari .
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An alliance of Nigerian opposition groups and splits in the ruling People’s Democratic Party are threatening to leave Goodluck Jonathan as a lame-duck president with fading chances of winning re-election in 2015.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said violence across the mainly Muslim north that killed more than 150 people won’t delay next week’s final round of voting in Africa’s biggest oil producer.
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Nigeria’s four biggest opposition political parties are merging to contest the 2015 elections against President Goodluck Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party.
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Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party won more than half of the April 26 elections for state governors declared so far, while the states of Bauchi and Kaduna started voting today after delays caused by sectarian violence.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will probably win tomorrow’s election in Africa’s top oil producer, bolstered by the opposition’s failure to agree on a single candidate to stand against him.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan headed into today’s election in Africa’s top oil producer as the firm favorite after the opposition failed to unite behind a single candidate to stand against him.
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