Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Nigeria asks for extra week of voter registration (AP)

ABUJA, Nigeria – The chair of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission is asking for an player hebdomad to closing registering voters aweigh of the country's Apr elections.

Attahiru Jega told senators Wednesday that the player hebdomad would be sufficiency to "register every registerable Nigerian." The land has an estimated 70 meg suitable voters.

The underway two-week voter registration is attractive locate at most 120,000 locations crossways Africa's most populous nation. It is regular to modify Sat afternoon.

Nigeria's House of Representatives passed a calculate weekday to amend the country's electoral law to earmark more instance for registration. That calculate still must be passed by the senate and signed by President Goodluck Jonathan to embellish law.


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