Nigeria

Suleiman’s Blog seeks to put the post-election violence that erupted in (Northern) Nigeria in context:

Nigeria’s 2011 general elections are high up on the list of my ‘most anticipated events’.

The Nigerian elections started off badly, very badly. On Saturday 2 April at approximately 1pm, Mohammed Jega, the INEC (Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission) chairman, announced the National Assembly elections would be cancelled due to administrative failures.

On Sunday, 20 Match 2011, the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) broadcast the first of ten one-hour documentaries made by Ms. Debrah Ogazuma, winner of the 1991 edition of the Union of National Radio and Television Organisations of Africa (URTNA) ‘Nelson Mandela Prize for Television Drama’.