The states — led by governors in the main opposition party that came second in the last weekend’s election — accuse Nigeria’s electoral commission of failing to follow its own ...
“We won the election and we will prove it to Nigerians,” third-place Labour Party candidate Peter Obi said at a news conference in the capital. He said that the election ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tunisia’s Kais Saied plays the xenophobic card, Anwar Sadat’s purloined passport, and South Africa fires Eskom’s chief after he alleges ...
ABUJA, Nigeria — Election officials declared ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election early Wednesday, with the two leading opposition candidates already demanding a revote in ...
The Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, must still confirm whether Tinubu secured 25 percent of votes in two-thirds of Nigeria‘s 36 states and capital, a threshold he must hit ...
With 11 of Nigeria‘s 36 states having reported as of Monday evening, ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was leading with 46% of the 6.7 million counted votes so far. He ...
But, as Nigerians head to the polls for Saturday’s presidential election, although the aroma of spices and the cacophony of hawkers selling their wares still filled the air, there is ...
In the past few weeks, as Nigeria’s Feb. 25 elections approached, the country seemed to be in the middle of an economic and infrastructural meltdown. The Central Bank of Nigeria ...
The Biden administration unveiled a new policy for transferring or selling arms to foreign countries that puts more weight on protecting human rights, in theory setting a lower bar for ...
When Nigeria elected Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as president in 2007, many of the country’s citizens briefly imagined their nation might be about to embark on a higher trajectory. Naturally, in ...
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