Nigeria faces critical six weeks to polling day

A woman walks past a poster bearing a picture of leading opposition All Progressive Congress presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari along the highway in Lagos on January 14, 2014. Nigerians go to the polls in a month's time to elect a new president 

Lago - Nigerians had been due to elect a new president on Saturday until the electoral commission delayed the vote by six weeks, citing fears about security and the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency.
The country will now go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections on March 28, with gubernatorial and state house assembly polls two weeks later on April 11.
The delay has triggered widespread debate about what happens next, particularly if no significant progress is made in tackling the Islamist insurgency raging in the north and there is a further postponement.
Amid fears of widespread violence, the coming weeks are seen as among the most important since civilian rule was restored in 1999.