nigerian political news 090319

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says he is not afraid of losing his reelection bid. The governor said this while waiting to cast his ballot at polling unit 024, Runka/Marnona, Angwan Sarki, Kaduna. El-Rufai said since President Muhammadu Buhari won his reelection two weeks ago, he...

The Financial Times of London has opined that Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is performing far lesser than its potential. The UK-based newspaper said this in its editorial titled ‘Nigeria’s Returning President Has A Chance to Make Amends’, in which it criticised the President’s...

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State, Emmanuel Jime, has been caught with a bag full of cash on election day. Mr Jime was intercepted by operatives of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, for alleged vote-buying. The incident occurred around a polling unit …...

Addressing the crowd of people who were making monetary requests from her, she said, “Show me your hand, get the money.” Mrs. Tinubu, who was addressing the crowd in a mixture of pidgin English, Yoruba and Itsekiri languages, however, said she was not into vote-buying...

President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, on Saturday joined hundreds of electorate to exercise their franchise at the polling unit 003 Kofar Baru III, Gidan Niyam, Daura, Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president, accompanied by his wife, arrived Read...

The Financial Times of London says President Muhammadu Buhari has been running a government that lacks a clear direction in the last four years. The newspaper therefore called on the President to see his re-election as an opportunity to do the right thing. The Financial … Read more via Punch...