Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Africa’s most populous nation, has died at age 82. His spokesman,...
By Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola Nigeria’s railway network serves only a small portion of the country. The country is 923,770 square kilometers (357,000 square miles) , with...
Bloomberg | Nigerian President Bola Tinubu suspended excise taxes on telecommunications services and some locally produced goods introduced 2 months ago. The new head of state...
Reuters | Bola Tinubu was sworn in as Nigeria’s president on Monday, facing mounting calls to improve economic and security conditions which many complain worsened under...
By Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi Nigeria’s new Dangote petroleum refinery is Africa’s biggest – it will produce 650,000 barrels a day, giving it the potential to address...
Reuters | Nigeria’s outgoing government has recommended that the new administration of president-elect Bola Tinubu give public sector workers pay rises after removing a fuel subsidy...
By Gregory Simpkins It was predicted that Nigeria’s 2023 elections would demonstrate significant progress in political plurality in the country. It has not thus far. It...
By Dulue Mbachu As Nigerian frontrunners Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi made passionate final appeals to voters in their bids to succeed President...
AFP | Nigerians voted on Saturday for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in a tightly fought race, with three frontrunners for the first time in...
Reuters | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed an executive order setting up a council to facilitate the transition to a new president who will...
AP | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has marked the opening of a US$1.5 billion, Chinese-funded deep seaport in the commercial hub of Lagos that authorities hope...
Bloomberg | Nigeria has unveiled redesigned high-denomination banknotes on Wednesday as the central bank confirmed a January deadline to roll out the new bills despite calls...
Bloomberg | A third-party candidate is the top choice to become the next president of Africa’s most populous country, according to a new opinion poll. A...
AFP | With Nigeria’s economy struggling and insecurity rife, four top presidential candidates start campaigning this week for next February’s election in an open race to...
Reuters | A consortium led by Ethiopian Airlines is the preferred bidder for shares in new Nigerian airline Nigeria Air, the country’s aviation minister said on...
By Stephen Onyeiwu Nigeria is preparing to elect its next president in February 2023. That person will have a daunting task of fixing a near-comatose economy....
Bloomberg | Nigeria has appointed Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, to lead a committee commissioned with eliminating malaria in the West African nation as the mosquito-borne...
Reuters | Nigeria has added more than 10 million new voters to its election register, most of them youths, ahead of a presidential vote next February,...
By Gregory Simpkins I have written previously about Nigeria being the “essential nation” in Africa. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), successive U.S. Administrations have...
Reuters | Nigerian opposition Senators pushed for President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10 months before the end of his second term in office, over the...
Reuters | Nigeria’s Chief Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has resigned on health grounds, two sources in the president’s office said on Monday, but there was no...
AFP | More than 2,300 delegates from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party converged on the capital Abuja ahead of a key primary election on...
AP | Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Monday that he will run for president in next year’s election. Osinbajo, 65, formally declared his intention to...
Bloomberg | Nigerian former Vice President Atiku Abubakar plans to run for president in elections next year. Abubakar, 75, made the announcement while speaking to lawmakers...
Bloomberg | Nigerian lawmakers have passed a constitutional reform bill that will allow state government’s supply electricity in Africa’s most populous country, breaking the monopoly of...
AFP | Nigeria’s electoral body said Saturday it was postponing the 2023 presidential and parliamentary polls by one week, due to a delay in passing a...
AFP | Nigeria’s ruling party chief and influential former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Monday he intends to run for the presidency in the...
"We are working very hard with the ministry of health to develop vaccines. We shouldn't make noise about it until we succeed." - Muhammadu Buhari
The move would turn the state-owned oil company into a private firm, and allow it to sell shares in the future.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law an oil overhaul bill that has been in the works for nearly two decades, a presidential spokesman said on...
Attahiru had been appointed to the position earlier this year
President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled Nigeria’s budget for 2016 as it grapples with falling oil revenues. The Buhari administration is aiming for growth of just above...
MTN Nigeria, which is a subsidiary of Africa’s biggest telecommunications company – the MTN Group – was fined a record US$5.2 billion by the communications regulator...
Nigeria’s security services have foiled an imminent terrorist attack and have arrested and charged 45 suspects over an alleged Boko Haram plot to attack the country’s...
By Dan Aceda “If Nigeria moves, then Africa moves. If not, then we must wait.” I do not remember where I first came across the quote...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked his newly sworn-in military chiefs with a difficult feat: to end a bloody 6-year Islamist insurgency in just 3 months,...
Nigeria’s army announced Thursday that it had freed 59 women and children who had been captured by the al-Qaeda-linked extremist group Boko Haram. The military raided...
Nigeria’s state oil company – the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has banned over 100 oil tankers from the country’s waters, citing a directive from president...
Nigerian authorities have arrested the mastermind of bombings in the central cities of Jos and Zaria this week that killed at least 69 people, the defense...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday slammed the state of the country’s finances, claiming that the previous administration had left Africa’s biggest economy deep in debt....
Nigeria: Buhari administration considering removal of fuel subsidy Nigeria’s newly innaugurated president, Muhammadu Buhari, has been advised by his transition committee to end a fuel subsidy...
With three weeks remaining before his inauguration as Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari has started putting his cabinet together. According to officials in his All Progressives Congress...
By Razia Khan The All Progressives Congress (APC), led by former military leader General Muhammadu Buhari, has won Nigeria’s presidential election, unseating the People’s Democratic Party...
By Obinna Chima The incoming administration must ensure that its economic policies are geared towards elevating the living conditions of Nigerians as well sustaining the country’s...
Axa SA, the largest external insurer active in Nigeria, sees the peaceful manner in which the country is handling its first transition in political power in...
As forces from Chad and Niger poured into the northern Nigerian town of Malam Fatori, driving out the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist Boko Haram fighters, Nigeria’s election commission...
Muhammadu Buhari has been elected president of Nigeria, defeating the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan and setting the stage for the first transfer of power from the People’s...
Nigerian opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari is heading for a win against the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, with 14.6 million votes to Jonathan’s 11.3 million and only...
Counting is underway in Nigeria’s presidential election, with the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan facing a strong challenge from retired military general Muhammadu Buhari. The country’s election...
Nigeria extended voting in presidential and legislative elections to Sunday after delays and equipment malfunctions disrupted balloting. Accreditation began late at about half of the polling...
Nigerian businesses from small operations to the huge Dangote Group, run by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, are being battered by a weak naira and low...
About 82 percent of Nigerian voters have collected the cards they need to present at polling stations to take part in Saturday’s presidential elections, officials said...
Latest polls indicate that opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari will defeat the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan in the upcoming presidential elections. According to political research group, Eurasia,...
Nigeria has postponed the February 14 presidential and legislative elections by six weeks to March 28 due to security concerns, the chairman of the electoral commission...
By Nnanna Ochereome It is strange that a section of the political class in Nigeria cannot find in their ranks a suitably qualified, intelligent and competent...
Voters in Nigeria will have a chance to see the leading candidates for the presidential election, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, in action, during the presidential...
Former soldier and military leader Muhammadu Buhari will challenge President Goodluck Jonathan at February presidential elections in Nigeria, according to results Thursday from party primaries. The...
Nigeria’s main opposition coalition began a convention Wednesday to select a candidate to take on incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in February, in what will be the...
Since Nigeria’s new mega-opposition party formed last year, it has been clear that they do not support the ruling People’s Democratic Party. The PDP has run...
(Reuters) – Nigeria lacks competent leaders to tackle its security problems, a former military ruler said on Monday, following Christmas Day bomb attacks on churches by...
