IBADAN, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's voters pressed their ink-soaked fingers to ballots Saturday, braving bomb attacks and communal violence to vote in the first round of crucial April elections in the oil-rich nation.

Voters from Nigeria's arid north to the mangroves of its southern delta decided who should sit in the country's National Assembly, with fragmented preliminary results suggesting opposition parties made huge strides against the governing People's Democratic Party. Meanwhile, violence erupted in northeast Nigeria, where a radical Islamic sect operates, leaving a hotel ablaze and a voting station bombed.

Read the complete story(Some news sites require registration)