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Good choices, bad outcomes, harder lives in Nigeria

Food and fuel have become prohibitively expensive and many Nigerians can no longer afford the basics

Fake results are circulating, vote rigging claims are mounting and tensions escalating as Nigerians wait for elections results. (Photo by Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tense wait for Nigeria’s election results

Fake results are circulating, vote rigging claims are mounting and tensions escalating as Nigerians wait for elections results

Supporters of Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of Labour Party for the 2023 Presidential election hold a rally in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 1, 2022. (Photo by Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nigeria has been ruled by generals and gerontocrats and young people want change in the 2023 polls

With 70% of Nigerians aged under 30 this should happen but the top candidates are 70 and 75 and the third will have to work with politicians the youth want out

The most effective way to mitigate the negative effect of fake news without neutering WhatsApp’s capacity to strengthen democracy is through digital-literacy campaigns. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images)

Is WhatsApp shaping democracy in Africa?

A study shows that the social messaging platform is both emancipatory and destructive, particularly during election campaigns

Abba Kyari’s cause of death was Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, a presidential spokesman confirmed on Twitter.

Nigeria’s president loses his right hand man to Covid-19

Abba Kyari was Muhammadu Buhari’s powerful chief of staff, and the jockeying to replace him has already begun

The legal challenge was lodged just a day before the three-week deadline for such cases. (Paul Carsten/Reuters)

Abubakar lodges election legal challenge

Abubakar, the candidate for the opposition PDP has now followed through with his promise to challenge the results

Lagos, as West Africa’s commercial hub, is arguably a bigger prize for any politician than Nigeria’s presidency itself. (Reuters)

Why governing Lagos is Nigeria’s ultimate political prize

Forget the presidency. Whoever controls Lagos controls Africa’s most important city

President Muhammadu Buhari. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

Nigeria’s Buhari wins re-election

The former military ruler was first elected as civilian president of Africa’s most populous nation and leading oil producer in 2015

In this Q&A, Crisis Group’s Nigeria expert Nnamdi Obasi says the commission and other authorities must act now to win back trust and reduce risks of violence. (AFP)

Winning back trust in Nigeria’s rescheduled elections

Only hours before polls were to open, Nigeria’s electoral commission postponed elections scheduled for February 16 by a week

Since 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari, both of whom were previously military dictators spent a combined 12 years in power. President Buhari is now seeking a second term. (Getty)

Nigeria has a history of dodgy elections: will it be different this time?

There are question marks over whether Nigeria’s upcoming elections will be credible

Muhammadu Buhari waves to his supporters as he arrives for an election campaign rally in Maiduguri, Nigeria. His closest contender is Nigeria’s opposition leader Atiku Abubakar. (Presidential Campaign Office/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Nigeria braces for knife-edge election (again)

At times chaotic, at others comical, the race to lead Africa’s biggest economy is never boring

Oby Ezekwesili says she decided to pull out after ‘extensive consultations with leaders from various walks of life across the country over the past few days’. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)

Oby Ezekwesili quits Nigeria’s presidential race

She has withdrawn from the race, pledging to form an opposition coalition to defeat the ruling party

Atiku Abubakar and incumbent Muhammadu Buhari (left) are the two frontrunners in Nigeria’s presidential race. (Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye)

Nigeria’s 2019 election: a two-horse race with uninspiring candidates

Despite the large number of aspirants for Nigeria’s 2019 elections, women and young people remain underrepresented

(Mujahid Safodien/AFP)

Buhari begins presidential election campaign

Voters go to the polls on February 16, four years after Buhari’s landmark victory

Abubakar comes from the Muslim-majority north, and his nomination follows an unwritten rule in Nigeria that the presidency should alternate every two terms between a candidate from the north and south. (Paul Carsten/Reuters)

Nigeria’s main opposition party announces candidate ahead of 2019 elections

​Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will run for re-election in February 2019 against former vice president Atiku Abubakar

(Mujahid Safodien/AFP)

Nigeria president to run for second term with party endorsement

Muhammadu Buhari will run for a second term in polls scheduled for February 2019