President-elect Bola Tinubu (C, Front) celebrates with his supporters after his victory in Nigeria's presidential election in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, March 1, 2023. Bola Tinubu from Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress party has won Nigeria's presidential election with over 8.79 million...
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA: SELECTION OR ELECTIONMary C. Ezeajughu
Holidays in Nigeria 2025 Holidays in Nigeria 2026 Is Presidential Election Day a Public Holiday? Presidential Election Day is not a public holiday in 2025. Schools and most businesses are open.Presidential Election Day Observances Presidential Election Day was only observed in the year 2015. ...
ABUJA, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria will hold next presidential election on Feb. 25, 2023, one week later than originally scheduled, the country's electoral body announced on Saturday. Elections for the country's bicameral legislature will be held on the same date, Mahmood Yakubu, head of ...
Nigeria to Hold Presidential and Parliamentary Election on Feb. 16, 2019 More Reuters Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton ABUJA (Reuters) - Niger...
Nigeria's 170 million people are divided almost equally between Christians mainly in the south and Muslims like Buhari who dominate the north. Buhari for the first time won states in the southwest and even took one third of votes in a southeastern state - an unprecedented development that some...
Voters in the Nigeria’s Ekiti State governorship election sold their ballot, a development observers believe is a bad omen ahead of the 2023 Presidential poll.
2015b, ‘How Credible Were the Nigerian 2015 General Elections? An “Electoral Integrity” Framework of Analysis’, paper presented at the International Conference on the 2015 Nigerian Election, organized by the Electoral Institute (TEI) of INEC, TEI Office, Abuja, Nigeria, 27-29 July, 2016. ...
Nigeria also postponed its presidential election in 2015 because of deadly insecurity in the northeast of the country, which remains under threat from Islamic extremists. More than 84 million voters had been expected to head to the polls on Saturday, in what is seen as a close and heated race...
In Nigeria, one general election simply leads to the next. Therefore, there is already much anticipation of the 2023 general election cycle. But fewer people have been voting in the presidential elections since 2003. The more we have elections, the poorer the people get, and the more unstable...