A 17 year old Nigerian pupil who was gang-raped 7 months ago is still in a hospital in Southwestern Nigeria.

A foreigner suspected to be a Dutch man and three Nigerians were recently killed at different locations in the violent oil rich Rivers state of Nigeria.

The dreaded Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has denied and refuted the Nigerian government broadcast that MEND supports the massively rigged elections of last April.

"Nigerians queued up last Saturday to vote and followed was oppression of the people's will. This has to be rejected." Umar Aliyu said to the congregation of hundreds of Muslims, including the aggrieved presidential candidate retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP).

If President Thambo Mbeki could be so irrational in his diplomatic hypocrisy as seen in his rapport with President Robert Mugabe, then it is not surprising that he is supporting the criminal ruling party in Nigeria.

Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua claims to be a pious Muslim and then engages in the celebration of gross electoral misconduct, irregularities and voter disenfranchisement perpetrated by his ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and caused the mayhem that left over 260 dead. And he is still so shameless and unrepentant in his denial of the crimes committed by the PDP during the April polls.

The last elections in Nigeria have left the political class more polarized than ever before as former political allies have suddenly become sworn enemies while others have become strange bedfellows too.

Monday, April 23, 2007, Alhaji Umaru Yar' Adua, the presidential candidate of the ruling Peopes Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared the winner of the Presidential election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nigeria. But, the opposition parties have refused to accept the result of the polls. Both the local and international observers have called the elections undemocratic and a fraud.

As millions of Nigerians go out to cast their votes today, they are doing so with their hearts in their mouths, because the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has waged a do or die war on the opposition parties in the contentious presidential and legislative elections.

Niger Delta militants attacked government offices on the eve of the historic Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria.

An old woman scared many people when she went stark naked to join half naked women and others in public demonstration on the streets of Warri in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. She did not even flinch as she boldly protested the rigging of the last state elections of Saturday April 14, 2007.

The Vanguard newspaper of Friday April 20,2007, reported that the Nigerian Army has intercepted a truckload of ballot boxes with thumb-printed ballots in Kaduna state in Northern Nigeria.