The international community must help Nigeria make the best of an imperfect situation. A man reads a newspaper after Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared the winner and president-elect of Nigeria after elections disputed by opposition parties in Lagos, Nigeria on March 1, 2023.REUTERS/James Oatway The just concluded Nigerian election will not pass the test of …
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…Declares Buhari’s order on new naira invalid The Supreme Court has invalidated the new naira design policy initiated by the Federal Government on the grounds that it was not done with due consultation and in line with constitutional provisions. Following, the apex court ordered that the old naira notes shall continue to be used side …
Late Pius Adesanmi I had two spells as a student at the University of Ilorin, abbreviated by us as ‘Unilorin’. True, our university started as a college under the University of Ibadan, (UI). We were in a hurry, however, to assert our independence and define our own corporate identity, soon after we were weaned off …
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After the buzz of a rare third party candidate and a chaos of a cash crisis, Nigerians chose continuity. The election process, which was supposed to be smoother this year because of technology, was anything but. Opposition parties dispute the outcome, with three of them having boycotted the process to collate votes because of technical glitches and …
A party observer argued with police officers as a polling station opened late during Nigeria’s election on Saturday.Michele Spatari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Imagine standing patiently in line, waiting to vote, and suddenly men with guns arrive on motorcycles and start shooting. Imagine men dashing into your polling unit, violently seizing ballot boxes and taking …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 