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 …
INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu The conduct of the 2023 presidential/National Assembly polls on February 25 has once more stirred deep questions on the credibility and integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission. A host of domestic and international observers agreed that the polls grossly fell short of minimum global standards. It is a shame that after …
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Pleadings by Peter Obi at the Appeal Court sitting as a Presidential Election Tribunal 28. The Petitioners (Peter Obi and Labour Party) further plead that the 2nd Respondent (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) was also at the time of the election not qualified to contest for election to the office of President as he was fined the …
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Nigeria carried out the second round of its electoral process with gubernatorial and state assembly elections on March 18. The United States is deeply troubled by the disturbing acts of violent voter intimidation and suppression that took place during those polls in Lagos, Kano, and other states. Members of the U.S. diplomatic mission observed the …
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