Nigeria Elections

© Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Mahmood Yakubu addresses media representatives in Abuja on February 19, 2019, ahead of rescheduled general elections. (Photo by Pius Utomi EKPEI / AFP)

suspended campaigns

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Fear of election postponement mounts amid cash, petrol crisis With a shortage of the naira and an unprecedented petrol scarcity, Nigeria’s electoral commission says preparations for the 25 February poll have been...
Bukola Saraki at a political rally in Kwara State

dynasty reboot?

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Bukola Saraki hopes to retake Kwara State from APC Can Bukola Saraki win back the Governor’s seat for the family dynasty in Kwara State? Or will Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq hold on, banking on the strength ...
© PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar’s rally in Benue State on 6 February 2023. (photo: @atiku)

on the ground

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Reporter’s Diary, 48 hours on Atiku’s campaign trail  Chief Nigeria Correspondent, Eniola Akinkuotu, spent 48 hours on the campaign trail of frontline Presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar, in Bayelsa and ...
Peter Obi on 9 January 2023

old boy

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Peter Obi’s Labour Party may take Anambra from PDP Anambra State is the stronghold of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) which always wins governorship elections. However, like other states in ...

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

If the insecurity is not monitored and dealt with decisively, it could ultimately culminate in the cancellation and/or postponement of elections.

ABDULLAHI ABDU ZURU, a national chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

Forget about the big people who are actually the problem of our country.

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People's Party, speaking at Chatham House, a UK thinktank.

© A campaign poster of candidate of the ruling Action Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu is pictured at Surulere in Lagos on January 13, 2023 ahead of February 25 presidential election. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

currency woes

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Tinubu takes battle to Buhari’s cabal  With two weeks left to the Presidential election, All Progressives Congress candidate (APC) Bola Tinubu has all but taken the gloves off in his battle...
Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, and presidential candidate for the 2023 Nigeria elections

Coffee With

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: ‘I’m the only revolutionary in race for Presidency’, says Sowore He wants to legalise marijuana, probe President Muhammadu Buhari, limit the influence of the west in Nigeria, free separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and i...

2-horse race

Nigeria 2023: Will the election follow the 2019 poll pattern? The 2019 presidential election in Nigeria was a two-horse race between President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and At...
Ademola Adeleke, Governor Osun State

last dance

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Tinubu receives major boost as court sacks dancing governor A Nigerian court has sacked Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State nicknamed the ‘dancing governor’ and ordered that Gboyega Oyetola, an ally of front...
Nigeria’s ‘dancing senator’ Ademola Adeleke with Nigerian singer Davido

turning tables?

Premium badgeNigeria 2023: Will Osun State swing to APC in the presidential election? With a recent legal victory, the ruling APC have clawed their way back into contention in Osun State. The PDP took the state in the gubernatorial cont...
© New 1000 naira note. REUTERS

cash drought

Nigerian banks limit ATM withdrawals to N20,000 as currency scarcity bites  Most Nigerian banks have limited the daily withdrawal limit from ATMs to N20,000 ($43) per day as the scarcity of the newly redesigned currency contin...