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How Nigeria's presidential election is galvanizing young voters

First-time voter Amanda Iheme has made up her mind on her choice for Nigeria's next president - and it won't be a candidate from the two main political parties.

Reuters

Nigeria's presidential frontrunners in final push for votes

The leading contenders in Nigeria’s presidential election have made their last push for support as the campaign period nears its end

The Independent UK

Insecurity threatens Nigeria's democracy as voters elect a new president

Bandits spraying villages with bullets, killing residents and setting buildings ablaze. Rampant cattle rustling and clashes between farmers and herders. Mass kidnappings for ransom.

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Economy and security on the ballot in Nigeria – 5 things to watch in presidential election

Voters in Africa’s largest democracy will go to the polls on Feb. 25, 2023, to pick a new president.

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Factbox-Nigeria's election: when is the vote and what's at stake?

Voters in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation, head to the polls on Feb. 25 to elect a new president and lawmakers amid growing frustration over unprecedented insecurity, industrial-scale oil theft and surging inflation.

Reuters

Missing a beat: Music stars absent from Nigeria's vote campaign

Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria's Afrobeats resonates all over Africa, and in the West, where young people sing and dance to the rhythms of Burna Boy, Wizkid and Tems.

AFP

Nigeria's election: six dangers of mixing religion with politics

One of the issues that has generated great concern among voters in the run up to the Nigerian presidential elections is religion.

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Analysis: Scars of annulled 1993 vote trail Nigeria 2023 election

Parallels are being drawn between the 2023 poll and the annulled 1993 vote, seen as the country’s ‘freest and fairest’.

Al Jazeera

African democracy on the line as ‘bellwether’ Nigeria goes to polls

Presidential election comes as fuel shortages and currency woes take toll on continent’s most populous country

The Guardian - UK

Can Atiku Abubakar succeed in sixth run for Nigerian presidency?

Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria’s former vice president, is promising hope and restoration if he becomes president. Can he win?

Al Jazeera

Factbox-The candidates contesting Nigeria's presidential election

Nigeria will elect a new president on Feb. 25 to take over from Muhammadu Buhari in a contest pitting the old guard against a third-party candidate seeking to upset the established political order.

Reuters

Cash and fuel crisis cranks up Nigeria election tensions

Lagos (AFP) - With just three weeks to go before Nigeria's presidential election, major cash and fuel shortages are stirring up public anger and tensions during campaigning for the country's top post.

AFP

Factbox-Nigeria election 2023: what you need to know and what's at stake

Voters in Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation head to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and lawmakers, in what is set to be a close contest amid rising frustration over cash and fuel shortages, unprecedented insecurity and surging inflation.

Reuters

Nigeria's 2023 presidential election: 10 factors that could affect the outcome

As Nigerians inch closer to the February 2023 presidential election, the seventh since the current wave of liberal democracy formally started in 1999, there are at least 10 key issues that are likely to drive and determine the outcome. Political scientist, Jideofor Adibe, explores them all.

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‘Obi understands’: young Nigerians swell support of presidential hopeful

The Independent UK

Nigeria presidential hopeful Obi pledges to fight corruption

A leading Nigerian presidential candidate is pledging to fight the endemic corruption that has stifled growth for many years

Reuters

Nigeria's Tinubu says presidential vote to test democratic gains

Ruling party presidential candidate Bola Tinubu said on Monday Nigeria's February election would be a significant step in consolidating democratic gains at a time when some other governments in the region have been ousted by military coups.

Reuters

Nigeria's Tinubu: Will remove fuel subsidy, deregulate gas prices if elected

Nigeria's presidential frontrunner Bola Tinubu on Friday promised to remove a fuel subsidy if elected next February, adding that his government would ramp up oil production and deregulate midstream gas prices within six months.

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Nigerian presidential candidates pledge peaceful campaign

Nigerian presidential candidates signed a pledge on Thursday to ensure peaceful elections in February, after previous ballots were marred by violence, voter intimidation and vote rigging.

Reuters

Nigeria's Tinubu picks Muslim senator as presidential running mate

Nigeria's presidential frontrunner Bola Tinubu on Sunday picked as his running mate a sitting Muslim senator and former governor of northeastern Borno state, the heartland of an Islamist insurgency that has killed and displaced thousands of people.

Reuters

Familiar faces in presidential race promise new ways to fix Nigeria

Two political veterans in their 70s are vying to be Nigeria's next president, promising pro-business policies to revamp Africa's largest economy by fixing its oil sector and curbing widespread security threats.

France 24

Lagos ex-governor wins Nigeria ruling party's nomination

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's ruling APC party has picked former Lagos State governor Bola Tinubu as its candidate for the 2023 presidential elections. Buhari cannot run again, as he will already have served two presidential terms. Also, Belgium's King Philippe expresses his "deepest regrets" to DR Congo during a landmark…

The Independent UK

Lagos ex-governor wins Nigerian ruling party's nomination

A former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, has been nominated to be the ruling party’s presidential candidate in next year’s presidential election

Reuters

Tinubu, ex-governor of Lagos, in pole position for Nigerian presidency

When reporters asked Bola Tinubu last month if his health was good enough for him to serve as president of Nigeria, he responded that he wasn't applying for a job as a professional wrestler or as a cement mixer.

AFP

Nigeria's ruling party picks candidate for 2023 election

Abuja (AFP) - Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress or APC party on Wednesday picked former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu as its candidate for the 2023 election to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, who steps down after two terms.

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