Mr Buhari

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Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari casts his vote in Nigeria’s presidential election at a polling station in Daura, Katsina State. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
Delayed Nigerian election goes ahead amid violence
  • Africa
  • February 23, 2019, 14:58

Nigeria’s long-awaited presidential election has arrived, amid heavy gunfire, voting technology failures and reports of vote-buying in some areas. So(...)

A staff member of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission carries a box of ballot papers in Port Harcourt on Friday. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba//AFP/Getty Images
Nigeria prepares to go to polls again after last-minute delay
  • Africa
  • February 22, 2019, 14:03

Nigerians are preparing to go to the polls again, hoping the presidential election will go ahead on Saturday morning after last weekend’s 11th-hour po(...)

Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow (left) watches as prime minister David Cameron (centre) is greeted by Queen Elizabeth during a reception in Buckingham Palace, London to mark the Queen’s 90th Birthday. Photograph: PA
David Cameron: ‘Fantastically corrupt’ nations attending conference
  • UK
  • May 10, 2016

British prime minister David Cameron has called Nigeria and Afghanistan “possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”. Mr Cameron was caught(...)

New Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari arrives with his wife Aisha, before taking oath of office at the Eagles Square in Abuja on Friday. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images.
Nigerian president Buhari vows to crush ‘godless’ Boko Haram

New Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to eradicate the “mindless, godless” militant group Boko Haram and rescue hundreds of women and chil(...)

All Progressives Congress (APC) party supporters sit on the floor during a march towards the Independent National Electoral Commission Office in Port Harcourt calling for the cancellation of the presidential elections in the Rivers State. Some 2,000 women protesting against the conduct of elections in Nigeria’s Rivers state were teargassed on Monday as they tried to register their complaints with electoral officials. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.
Nigerian election candidates ‘neck and neck’ in early results
  • Africa
  • March 30, 2015, 19:35

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and his rival Muhammadu Buhari were running neck and neck on Monday after the first phase of results in an eagerl(...)