The Status of Nigeria’s February 25 Elections

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Edi­tor’s Notes: Nige­ri­ans go to the polls on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 25 to elect the coun­try’s next pres­i­dent. The top three con­tenders in the elec­tion are Peter Obi, rep­re­sent­ing the Labour Par­ty, for­mer vice-pres­i­­dent Atiku Abubakar who is rep­re­sent­ing the Peo­ple’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party(PDP), and Bola Tin­ubu, rep­re­sent­ing the All Pro­gres­sive Congress(APC) par­ty. Cur­rent Pres­i­dent, Muham­madu Buhari…

Intense Coverage Follows Delayed Polls in Nigeria

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    Pres­i­den­tial and par­lia­men­tary elec­tions sched­uled for Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 16 in Nige­ria were sud­den­ly post­poned by the Inde­pen­dent Nation­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (INEC) just hours before the polls were due to open. The new date for the elec­tion is now Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23. Also post­poned by a week is the March 2 guber­na­to­r­i­al elec­tions, now scheduled…