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  Nigeria Awaits Tense Poll Results, UN Chief Calls for Calm

  Nigerians today awaited the first results of a closely fought general election pitting President Goodluck Jonathan against ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for calm after deadly riots followed 2011 polls.

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  Nigeria Troops Battle Boko Haram Near Bauchi: Residents, Military

  Nigerian troops battled scores of Boko Haram fighters outside the northeastern city of Bauchi on Sunday, residents and a military source told AFP.

• Blast at Northeast Nigeria Market Kills 7: Police

  A explosion at the main market in northeast Nigeria's Bauchi city killed seven people and injured 25 others in an area repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram, police said today.

• Bomb Blast Kills Five at Bus Station in North Nigeria

  A bomb exploded at a bus station in northern Nigeria's Bauchi state late on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 12, police said.

• Second Blast Rocks Nigeria's Kaduna City: Police

  A second explosion rocked a crowded market area in northern Nigeria's Kaduna city today, police said, after a suicide bomber targeting the convoy of a prominent cleric killed at least 25 people.

• Bomb Targeting Imam in North Nigeria Kills at Least 15

  A bomb tossed off the back of a motorcycle at a Nigerian Muslim cleric killed at least 15 people on a busy commercial road in the northern city of Kaduna on Wednesday, witnesses said.

• Nigerian President Condemns Terror Attacks

  Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the recent bomb attacks in Bauchi and Kaduna states.

• Blast in Northern Nigeria Kills 10: Police

  An explosion in the red light district of northern Nigeria's Bauchi city has killed 10 people and injured 14 others, police said Saturday.

• Gunmen Raze Two Schools in North Nigeria: Police

  A group of gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls' school, a police spokesman said on Thursday.

• Seven foreigners kidnapped in north Nigeria: police

  Police in northern Nigeria say gunmen have kidnapped seven foreign workers from a construction company.

• Suicide bomber kills 2, injures 45 in Nigeria

  A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 45 in a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect, officials said.

• Goodluck Jonathan sworn in as Nigeria's President

  Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in Sunday for a full four-year term as President of Nigeria and is now faced with the challenge of uniting a country that saw deadly post-election violence despite what observers called the fairest vote in more than a decade.Hours after the ceremony, a series of bomb blasts at an army barracks in Bauchi in the country's ...