Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has accused former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.

He said that while the elections would last, security personnel would keep surveillance at the polling areas to ensure that restriction of movement and other rules were obeyed as stipulated by the ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Frustrated Nigerians cast their ballots into the evening Saturday, hours after the official deadline for joining the voting line in Africa’s most populous nation after late ...

Ebenezer Obadare, the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the results of Nigeria’s presidential election and their consequences.

NIGERIA is in a desperate search for free, fair, credible, and peaceful elections to alleviate the challenges associated with its democratic journey. This is because the country’s post-independence ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has reopened the galling debate on elections. Essentially, he lamented Nigeria’s inability to conduct credible polls. As president, he superintended two general ...

“Running an election in Nigeria is no easy matter. [The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)], the election management body, had to manage 176,846 polling places, many of them in ...