Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari at a campaign rally ahead of the 2019 general elections.
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One year after the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, courts and not the electorate, are busy deciding actual winners of the polls.
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Women waiting to vote in Nigeria’s 2019 elections.
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While the 2019 presidential election wasn’t perfect, it showed that democracy is gradually being entrenched in Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari (left) and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during a campaign rally in Akure, Ondo State.
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In the end, Buhari possibly won simply because the Peoples Democratic Party wasn’t offering a viable alternative.
Nigerians lined up to cast their ballots in the presidential elections in Abuja.
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After a long history of botched elections, Nigerians are hopeful that the 2019 poll results will be more credible.
Voters in the presidential elections in Abuja, Nigeria.
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The electorate monitored political parties very closely, an indication that democracy in Nigeria is taking root.
Newspaper headlines following the decision by Nigeria’s National Electoral Commission to delay the country’s poll.
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Regardless of how the elections are conducted on the new dates announced, losing parties will blame the postponement for their defeat.
Nigerians get ready to cast their vote on February 16.
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More than half of Nigeria’s 51% registered voters are aged between 18-35 years.
A hawker sells clocks on a roadside in Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state.
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Most of the things Nigerians complained about in 2015 are still unresolved – unemployment, poverty and economic disempowerment.
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African countries’ adoption of e-government platforms hasn’t served the majority of their citizens.
Nigerian soldiers clearing a Boko Haram camp in Borno State in 2015.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is hoping to be reelected but he’s fallen short on the country’s security challenges.