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Since the Fourth Republic began in 1999, the disruption in the membership of the forthcoming 10th Senate, the upper chamber of the National Assembly, will be unprecedented. It used to be a norm for the majority of the members to return while there would only be a few freshers. But in the 10th Assembly that …

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The U.S. State Department has hailed Nigeria’s new president, elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in a “competitive election” that “represents a new period for Nigerian politics and democracy.” Though opposition politicians may soon attempt to contest the result of the election, their efforts are unlikely to as previous election victories in Nigeria have been challenged …

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Nigeria’s new president will immediately face pressures from within his party, the opposition, and the majority of voters who didn’t back him. A man reads newspaper at a newsstand as candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu is declared president-elect after the presidential election in Lagos, on March 1. Last weekend Bola …

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Mugshots of convicted persons A senior Nigerian politician, his wife, and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, his wife, Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 51, were found guilty of …

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