Panic-stricken Nigerians are fleeing the Northern state of Kano as government forces try to crush a rebellion by the Islamic militants who killed the district police officer with his wife and 11 other policemen at a police post last Tuesday.

A district police officer, his wife and 11 other police officers were killed by an irate mob of the Islamic sect in Kano, Northern Nigeria, after violent polls and four days after unidentified gunmen shot and killed a popular Islamic leader and two of his assistants inside their mosque.

An automated system to be introduced in Armenia for the first time in the upcoming parliamentary elections will enable the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to work more effectively and transparently.

Things have fallen apart in Nigeria and millions of Nigerians are no longer at ease as they bury their dead and nurse their bleeding wounds after the tragic elections of last Saturday April 14, 2007. And nemesis is driving thousands of protesters to go on rampage on the streets. The sirens of anarchy echo from different regions of the troubled nation.

Over 46 people were killed on Saturday April 14, in one of the bloodiest elections in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and it's largest oil producer. Seven police men were killed as militants attacked and razed three police stateions in the Niger Delta and at least 40 civilians were killed in bloody political clashes in several states across Nigeria.

Dare-devil Niger Delta militants invaded a police station on election day in Port Harcourt and killed seven police officers and razed the police station before escaping.

How could Sheikh Jafar Adam and two of his notable assistants be assassinated a day to the State legislative and governorship polls in Nigeria?

Lawan Ibrahim, one of the millions of poor Nigerian voters in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria said he won't vote for the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), because the PDP led government of President Olusegun Obasanjo failed to improve his living condition in the two terms of 8 years.

Vigilant observers have discovered that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registered underage children as eligible voters in Bauchi State of Northern Nigeria. The children have been registered to rig the elections commencing on Saturday April 14, 2007.

As the elections begin on Saturday April 14, "Let the die be cast" and let the will of God be done in Nigeria and not the will of the desperate political parties in Nigeria, for they only woo voters with their numerous offers of political promises and using various political gimmicks to win the mandate of the Nigerian electorate for their selfish ambitions for the much coveted elective posts to rule Nigeria.

The theme of the fourth Global Electoral Organization Conference here last week was "Every Vote Counts." It brought together more than 200 of the world"s top election officials and democracy advocates in what one of the sponsors said was a "celebration of transparency in the election process."

Russia's Central Election Commission has chosen Vladimir Churov, a former colleague of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as its new chairman ahead of key elections.