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Nigeria opposition renews calls to overturn election result

Nigeria’s opposition has renewed calls for the election result to be overturned a day after the country announced its new president-elect

The Independent UK

Peter Obi says he will prove he won Nigeria election

Defeated candidate Peter Obi pledges to legally challenge the results a day after Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared winner.

Al Jazeera

The Lake Chad Basin is a security nightmare. 5 guidelines for finding solutions

It is now 14 years since Boko Haram and other armed groups began to operate in the Lake Chad Basin. The region, which includes Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, has become unstable and the people who live there are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.

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Nigeria's election was nearly derailed by technology - but biometric devices weren't the problem

Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfil its promise to transmit election results from the polling units on its result viewing portal (IReV). This led to calls by some political parties for cancellation and fresh elections. The…

The Conversation

‘People were going crazy’ – how the Super Eagles took the world by storm

A new documentary charts the success of Nigeria in the 1990s and what it meant to the country’s people, including the daughter of the executed activist Ken Saro-Wiwa

The Guardian - UK

France's Macron kicks off four-nation Africa tour in Gabon

In tonight's edition: Nigeria's ruling APC party stays in control after Bola Tinubu is named winner of the presidential election. Also, French President Emmanuel Macron touches down in Gabon at the start of a central African tour. And we meet one of Senegal's e-sporting stars: Dexx Junior is hoping to…

France 24

Bola Tinubu is now Nigeria’s president-elect. What happens next?

The president-elect will need to bring together a divided country as he faces security and economic challenges.

Al Jazeera

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Nigeria presidential elections: What next after Tinubu wins with record low turnout?

The votes have been counted in Africa's largest democratic exercise. But will the results hold? Bola Tinubu is Nigeria's president-elect. Described as a godfather of Nigerian politics, the 70-year-old has been a major political operator for decades and is a close ally of incumbent Muhammadu Buhari. The opposition have failed…

France 24

Nigeria’s president-elect appeals to opponents after chaotic election

APC’s Bola Tinubu makes speeches after opposition calls for ‘manipulated’ result to be scrapped

The Guardian - UK

Nigerian president-elect Bola Tinubu strikes unified tone

Bola Tinubu has been proclaimed the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election after a hotly contested election

The Independent UK

Bola Ahmed Tinubu promised to "renew hope" for Nigeria - 5 ways he can achieve this

The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria has been formally won – and lost. By mid-week Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, had been declared the winner of the keenly contested presidential election with 36% of the 24,965,218 votes cast.

The Conversation

Nigeria election results 2023: Who is the new Nigerian president Bola Tinubu?

Opponents have called the result a ‘sham’ and merely ‘vote allocation and not collation’ — and demanded a rerun

Evening Standard

Starlink: SpaceX's new internet service could be a gamechanger in Africa

It’s hard for many of us to imagine a world without instant, limitless internet access. Some have even argued that it should, alongside access to clean water and electricity, be considered a basic human right.

The Conversation

Bola Tinubu: Ruling party candidate wins Nigeria’s presidential election

Former Lagos governor Bola Tinubu declared victor in presidential race

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From Chinua Achebe to Toyin Falola – 5 essential books Nigeria's new president should read

Not many African political leaders are known to have publicly declared their love of reading. US president Barack Obama popularised the idea of a recommended reading list and he still shares his annual choice.

Radio France Internationale

Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Tinubu wins presidential election

Bola Tinubu is the winner of Nigeria's highly disputed presidential election, officials announced on Wednesday. The ruling party candidate and former Lagos governor takes over from Muhammadu Buhari who stepped down after two terms.

The Independent UK

Nigeria election: Ruling party candidate declared winner of bitterly contested vote

Opposition calls for re-vote citing technical malfunction and foul play

Al Jazeera

Who is Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president-elect?

The 70-year-old has won the presidency of Africa’s most populous nation with 8.8 million votes.

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The Guardian - UK

Dozy Mmobuosi takeover questions hang over Sheffield United

Visit of Spurs comes as Nigerian businessman with a degree of mystery tries to satisfy EFL he is fit to buy Championship club

Al Jazeera

A year into Ukraine war, food prices rise and aid drops in Niger

Effects of the war are still being felt in one of the world’s poorest countries as inflated prices eat into budgets.

The Guardian - AU

Nigeria’s ruling party candidate Tinubu wins presidential election – electoral commission

Former Lagos governor polled ahead of Abubakar and Obi in Nigeria’s most competitive election since end of military rule in 1999

Daily Mirror

Nigerian electoral commission declares Bola Tinubu winner in disputed presidential vote

Opposition parties in Nigeria are demanding a revote after ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was declared winner of the country's presidential election in a late night announcement

Al Jazeera

Bola Tinubu wins controversial Nigerian presidential election

Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the popular vote in the disputed election.

Tribune News Service

Nigerian ruling party’s Bola Tinubu wins race for presidency

Bola Tinubu was declared the winner of Nigeria’s presidential election, a victory that will place him at the helm of Africa’s biggest economy as it confronts a deepening fiscal crisis, acute shortages of local and foreign currency and gasoline, and widespread insecurity.

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Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, elects Bola Tinubu as the new president

For Tinubu, it's the culmination of a deeply held ambition. But the elections have been criticized over logistical failings and violence that suppressed the vote.

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