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"In Australia, mandate protection for Prime Minister Julia Gillard might mean securing the passage of the NBN or the mining tax. In Nigeria, it means spending all day – usually despite searing heat and with little food or drink – at a polling station. That’s just to protect your vote.

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"The violence that broke out in some states following the announcement of the presidential election results last Saturday is unfortunate and condemnable. It is a sad signal that rather than improve on their attitude over elections, politicians are still desperate, their supporters even more so...

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Just days after the Nigerian national assembly and presidential elections garnered praise from international observers, Nigeria's next polls face losing the bulk of its workforce - the youth corps members - who have threatened to boycott the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled for Tuesday following last week's riots in which many of them were targeted in some northern states.

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"International observers have applauded the conduct of Saturday's presidential election but have cited several areas that need to be improved upon ahead of the governorship polls next week.

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"Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has commended Nigerians for the peaceful, orderly and all-inclusive conduct of last Saturday's presidential elections...

"Speaking with a delegation of the Washington DC, United States (US) based National Democratic Institute for International (NDI) Senator-Elect for the Lagos East senatorial district, 'Gbenga Ashafa, said Nigeria was already on the threshold of electoral history."

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"A watershed presidential election in one of America’s top oil suppliers, Nigeria, unfolded peacefully on Saturday, a first for a country with a history of rigged and violent votes in the 12 years since the end of military rule...

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"More than 70 million Nigerians are expected to go to the polls Saturday to choose a president. But Rashida Adaune will not be among them...