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Nigerien crisis (2023–2024) On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger, during which the country's presidential guard removed and detained president Mohamed Bazoum. Subsequently, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, the Commander of the Presidential Guard, proclaimed himself the leader of the country and established the National Council for ...
The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023 [a] to elect the president and Vice President of Nigeria. [1] Bola Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress won the election with 36.61% of the vote, just under 8.8 million votes to defeat over runners-up former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party) and former ...
2023 Nigerien coup d'état. On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger when the country's presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, and Presidential Guard commander General Abdourahamane Tchiani proclaimed himself the leader of a new military junta, shortly after confirming the coup a success. [12][13][14][15] This was the ...
Politics of Nigeria. The federal government of Nigeria is composed of three distinct branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial, whose powers are vested and bestowed upon by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. [ 1 ] One of the primary functions of the constitution is that it provides for separation and balance ...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Founded on 6 February 2013 from a merger of Nigeria's three largest opposition parties, [6] [7] [8] the party came to power following the victory of party candidate Muhammadu Buhari [7] in the 2015 presidential election. [9]
Elections in Nigeria involve choosing representatives for the federal government of Nigeria as well as the various states in the Fourth Nigerian Republic [1]. Elections in Nigeria began in 1959 with several political parties [2][3][4][5]. It's a method of choosing leaders for which the citizens have the right to vote and to be voted for [6].
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who has served the 16th president of Nigeria since 2023. [1] He was previously the governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007, and senator for Lagos West in the Third Republic. Tinubu spent his early life in southwestern Nigeria and later moved to the United States ...
The 2023 Nigerian elections were held in large part on 25 February and 11 March 2023. The president and vice president were elected on 25 February, with incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari ineligible to run, being term-limited. [1] Additionally, there were also elections on the same day for the Senate and the House of Representatives.