Nigeria Presidential elections 2015 - our recommended research resources.

Get a basic introduction to the elections, main candidates and electoral system from the BBC service

Independent Electoral Commission has the official facts. This includes information for voters as well as a researchers area with Risk maps 

Nigeriaelections.org  a project of the Department for International Development (DFID/UKAID) and the West African NGO Network (WANGONeT) it has news and reports promoting free elections in Nigeria.


News coverage
All africa.com aggregates news stories from a range of sources including African
Nigerian Guardian
Vanguard - Nigerian newspaper
Nigerian Observer
Today


Election Observers.

Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) launched a unique Pre-Election Observation, PREO, in 2014 which surveys the situation and risk of political violence.
These organisations will be monitoring the conduct of the elections.
EU
Commonwealth Observers.
African Union.
ECOWAS 
International Republican Institute
NDI
Nigerian Civil Society situation room - NGOs within Nigeria monitoring the conduct.

Analysis
Council for Foreign Relations analysis.
Chatham House.
Brookings Institution
International Crisis Group

Nigeria election observation missions

The following organisations have notifed that they will have a presence covering the elections. Their websites will therefore be good places for keeping up to date.

European Union
African Union
relief web has a statement on its remit and methods.
NDI supported earlier elections. It has some useful comment on the website.

More on the Nigerian elections: follow these good news sources

See the official Nigerian election authority website for the latest updates in the delayed elections. The The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) also has official press releases, lists of candidates and information on procedures.

A number of Nigerian newspapers have online coverage of events see,.
Nigerian Guardian
This day
Vanguard
Nigeria Nation.
Nigerian tribune
Allafrica.com has a special section covering both the parliamentary and presidential elections.these include reports from local journalists. also look at the links on the left of the page for facebookk and other media pages covering the elections.
For Instance Reclaimnaija is using Ushahidi to map instances of electoral fraud and violence.


Sahara reporters has analysis and interviews.

Global voices online has some recommended tweeters to follow.

Nigeria elections will they take place?

Nigeria has again postponed its parliamentary elections.
here are some sources for finding out more about why this has occurred.
IFES has some general news and discussion.
Find more detailed materials on the ACE Electoral site. This includes current news stories, plus links to recent reports and assessments of the political system.
For discussion of the human rights situation excellent starting points are:

Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
International crisis Group
and the Human Security Gateway The latter is a particularly good site which aggregates articles and reports from a number of different sources. It also has maps and statistics.