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Nigeria 2023: Are Buhari’s men frustrating Tinubu’s campaign?

As Nigeria prepares for next month's presidential election, allegations have emerged that a cabal within the presidency is undermining the campaign ... of the ruling party's candidate, Bola Tinubu. The recent scarcity of petrol and shortage of redesigned currency have fuelled these claims. How this will impact the outcome of the poll?

Worn-Out Lever

Nigeria: Central bank deficit financing dooms rate hikes to diminishing returns

Ever-higher Nigerian interest rates will do little to reduce inflation without broader policy changes, economists say. ...

battleground states

Nigeria 2023: Obi and Atiku push to turn Lagos into swing state

Lagos represents the largest state in terms of votes... but historically has the lowest turnout. That is set to change as determined supporters ... of Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar work to build their ground game. Will Lagos Godfather Bola Tinubu weather the storm? And will the PDP's national crisis be replicated in Lagos? Part two in our series of battleground states in Nigeria.

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'audacious project'

Nigeria: Buhari commissions Africa’s ‘first metro rail with sea-crossing’

Nearly 40 years after he cancelled a Lagos State government rail project as a military dictator, President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the state ... to commission the Lagos Rail Mass Transit on Tuesday.

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Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, and presidential candidate for the 2023 Nigeria elections

Coffee With

Nigeria 2023: ‘I’m the only revolutionary in race for Presidency’, says Sowore

Crown Joules

India’s Husk seeks up to $90m for Nigeria, Africa solar mini-grid expansion

Grim Logic

Nigeria’s weak commodity output signals higher 2023 food inflation: AFEX

Coffee With

Nigeria 2023: ‘I’m the only revolutionary in race for Presidency’, says Sowore

Crown Joules

India’s Husk seeks up to $90m for Nigeria, Africa solar mini-grid expansion

Grim Logic

Nigeria’s weak commodity output signals higher 2023 food inflation: AFEX

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battleground states

Nigeria 2023: Rivers State, fief of spoiler-in-chief Nyesom Wike

Rivers State - cash rich with oil money, and a key vote bank for the opposition PDP - is led by Governor Nyesom Wike, a member of the said party. ... The only problem? A jilted Wike, who saw himself as the PDP presidential candidate, is not playing ball. Part one of our Battleground States series.

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fluidity and unpredictabile

Nigeria 2023: Where will the battle be won and lost?

About 93.4 million Nigerian voters scattered across the 36 states and the nation’s capital will next month elect a new president. However, ... each state has its own peculiarity and voting patterns that can shape the overall outcome of a poll. Read on for our 8-part series on the key swing states, and the political personalities who define them.

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Nigeria 2023: Can Atiku win the north?

For the first time since 2003, President Muhammadu Buhari, the undisputed ‘king of the north’ will not be on the ballot. With his over 12 ... million vote bank up for grabs, fellow northern Muslim, Atiku Abubakar, is hoping to inherit this base. Will the north show up for him next month?

Obident

Nigeria 2023: Will Peter Obi momentum end south-easterners’ voting apathy?

Nigeria's elections are often characterised by voter apathy, but the south-east region has always led the way in shunning the country's electoral ... process.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari cuts a ribbon during the commissioning of the Lekki Deep Sea Port in Lagos

making waves

Nigeria: Buhari commissions ‘West Africa’s deepest sea port’ in Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday officially commissioned the Lekki Deep Sea Port, Nigeria's biggest -- and one of Africa's largest -- deep ... sea ports in Lagos, just a few weeks ahead of February's presidential polls.

fair and true

Nigeria 2023: Electoral umpire helpless in political parties’ vote-buying antics

Barely four weeks to Nigeria's presidential elections, the country's electoral umpire has expressed helplessness at incidences of vote-buying ... which has characterised previous elections.

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