many in Nigeria for vote manipulated, see this as an opportunity to previous polls behind you Nigerians vote in parliamentary elections that are been affected by bloody attacks and chaotic delays.Polling had to be abandoned last week after election material failed to reach many areas.
Security is tight for sporadic violence in the campaign. Several people were injured on Saturday in an explosion at a polling station in the North-East.
73.5 Metres are to vote with President Goodluck Jonathan PDP fighting continue their majority registered.
'Ready for democracy'The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Lagos loud there is tight security controls on land, with many towns and cities, who left, closed borders and grounded flights.
Read the main story of Caroline Duffield BBC News, LagosThe image is better than last week chaos but still troubled in some areas.
In Maiduguri, an explosion at a polling station in the area Unguwan Maidoki killed at least three people, including a female police officer guarding the Wahlurne-and the Chairman of the electoral officer.
There were also unconfirmed reports of gunfire in Bayelsa State - that long as a flash point for political intimidation and brutality has experienced.
In Lagos, defendant some people not in the position, after not to find their names on the register - in one ward, Magodo area, people say playground Kosofe electoral officers even overwhelmed by crowds and lost found to vote control of the situation.
But - so far - against Nigeria's elections in the year 2007 set when ballot open to monitors were filled, seems it a remarkable improvement.
The polling process began at about 0800 (0800 GMT) on Saturday, with registration of voters, to avoid irregularities. Polling stations began, vote at about noon.First indications were that, although some officials not in time again to the organization that is better than last week.
Vote - for 360 seats in the lower Chamber and the Senate – 109 began last Saturday, and millions have been queuing when it turned out that ballot papers in some parts of the country which delays due to the difficulty of replacing missing ballots.
Different problems led three separate announcements of shifts, while the elections for President and State governors were also reinstated.
Despite the delays, our correspondent says, see these polls as a chance for Nigeria, the troubled time of electoral fraud and violence to escape, since the end of military rule in 1999 have plagued many people the previous elections.
Politically, the stakes are high, she says, can be seen using this to test whether this Government will include a credible choice.
A voter in Lagos, Mukaila Odukoya, told of Reuters: "we want the rest of the world show that we are ready for democracy." "This one is far, far better than the past."
The main plot 74 million registered voters360 House of Representatives109 senators54 parties contesting36 governors20 read on President CandidatesMr, who widely survey the forthcoming presidential elections by Jonathan, but his people's Democratic Party is under pressure to avoid to a cut in their majority in the National Assembly.The presidential elections were again a week until 16 April, now choose powerful state polls to the 36 governors, which on 26 April set.
The campaigns have through violence been tarnished.
A number of people were injured on Saturday in an explosion at a polling booth in the north eastern city of Maiduguri, officials said.
On Friday an explosion at the Election Commission Office in Abuja, 20 km from the capital, Abuja, (12 km) at least six people killed.
Also shot at on Friday, in the northeastern State of Borno, where election officials, voting materials were prepared to a police station, gunmen dead four people.
The people's Democratic Party (PDP) won all elections since the end of military rule in 1999. It won two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 States last time. But a southerner - President Goodluck Jonathan - as your candidate it some votes in the North can lose the presidential election.
Nigeria's 160 million people are divided between many ethno-linguistic group and also religious role model. On the whole, the Hausa-Fulani are mainly Muslim people in the North. The Yorubas of Southwest are divided between Muslims and Christians, while the Igbos in the Southeast and Neghbouring groups are mostly Christian or animist. The middle belt is home to hundreds of groups with others believe, and Jos frequent clashes between Hausa-speaking Muslims and Christians are members of the community be Rome.
Despite its extensive resources, Nigeria is one of the very unequal countries in the world, according to the UN. The poverty in the North is in stark contrast to the more developed South. While in the oil-rich South East, residents of Delta and Akwa Ibom complain all they produce the wealth flowing to the pipeline of Abuja and Lagos.
Southern residents tend to be better access to health care, like you by the greater inclusion of vaccines against polio, tuberculosis, tetanus, and diphtheria. Some Northern groups boycotted immunisation programmes in the past, say it a Western plot to make Muslim women infertile. This led to a repeat of polio, but the vaccinations have now resumed.
Standard of living for the next generation is seen as the key to improving women. For example, a newborn child is to survive if their mother is well trained far more likely. In Nigeria, we see a strong contrast between the mainly Muslim north and southern Christians and animists. In some Northern States, while in certain Igbo areas more than 90% read and write are read less than 5% of women and write.
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and the largest in the world, but most of the people live on less than $2 per day. The oil is in the Southeast, and some are militant groups a greater share of wealth comes from want to maintain under their feet. Attacks by militants on oil installations led to a sharp fall in Nigeria's output during the last ten years. But in the year 2010, an amnesty Government led thousands of fighters, lay down their arms.
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