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Feb

2023

Factbox: Nigeria election 2023: how it all works

MACDONALD DZIRUTWE and SOFIA CHRISTENSEN NIGERIANS are set to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday which is seen as the most wide-open since Africa's most populous nation switched from military rule to democracy in 1999. Of the 18 candidates vying to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, three stand a chance: former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu, 70, the ruling party candidate; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, 76, the main opposition candidate; Peter Obi, 61, a challenger popular among young voters. Here are key facts about the logistics of the election, Africa's largest democratic contest: WHEN IS IT? Voting takes place…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Bola Tinubu: Nigeria’s kingmaker who wants to be king

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BOLA Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Nigeria, holds two traditional titles: Asiwaju of Lagos and Jagaban of the Borgu kingdom in Niger State, north-central Nigeria. The titles have similar meanings: leader and leader of warriors. Though he has held these titles for some years, they now bear more significance in the life of Tinubu, a former two-term governor of Lagos State, as he runs for president. Author OLAYINKA OYEGBILE, Journalist and Communications scholar, Trinity University, Lagos Widely believed to be the political kingmaker responsible for the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, Tinubu…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Buhari’s succession plans

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NIGERIAN President Muhammadu Buhari signed an executive order setting up a council to facilitate the transition to a new president who will emerge after a February 25 election. Buhari, 80, who is constitutionally barred from contesting the election, is serving his second and final term. He becomes the second Nigerian leader to complete two terms in office since the end of military rule in 1999. A new president will be sworn in on May 29. "The new Executive Order puts in place a legal framework for the seamless transition of power from one Presidential Administration to another," Buhari said in…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Nigeria opens ‘game changer’ billion-dollar deep seaport

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SEUN SANNI NIGERIA opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos, which is expected to ease congestion at the country's ports and help it become an African hub for transhipment, handling cargoes in transit for other destinations. President Muhammadu Buhari has made building infrastructure a key pillar of his government's economic policy and hopes that this will help his ruling party win votes during next month's presidential election. The new Lekki Deep Sea Port is 75% owned by the China Harbour Engineering Company and Tolaram group, with the balance shared between the Lagos state government and the Nigerian Ports Authority.…

Oct

2022

By The African Mirror

Nigeria’s Tinubu pledges to remove fuel subsidy, deregulate gas prices

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MACDONALD DZIRUTWE NIGERIA'S presidential frontrunner Bola Tinubu 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. Nigerians will elect a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, who steps down next year after serving the two presidential terms mandated by the constitution. The 70-year-old Tinubu, from Buhari's ruling All Progressives Congress, is a former state governor and senator of Lagos, the country's commercial capital. He launched his presidential manifesto in Abuja where he promised to create a Special Enforcement and Monitoring Unit to protect…