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The 2023 Nigerian presidential election was held on 25 February 2023 to elect the president and Vice President of Nigeria. Bola Tinubu , a former Governor of Lagos State and nominee of the All Progressives Congress , [2] [3] won the election with 36.61% of the vote, which is about 8,794,726 total votes.
8 January – A two-year BBC investigation accuses the Synagogue Church of All Nations founder T. B. Joshua of rape and torture. [2] 9 January – At least 20 people are feared dead after an accident involving two passenger boats. [3] Bandits attack soldiers at a military base in Nahuta, Katsina State.
Peter Obi. Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi CON ( Igbo: [òbí] ⓘ; born 19 July 1961) is a Nigerian politician, statesman, political activist and businessman who served as the Governor of Anambra State from June 2007 to March 2014. He has previously held the position from March to November 2006 and February to May 2007.
Elected Speaker. Tajudeen Abbas APC. The 2023 Nigerian House of Representatives elections were held on 25 February 2023 where voters elected members of the House of Representatives using first-past-the-post voting in all 360 federal constituencies. [1] [2] The last regular House elections for all districts were in 2019.
May 11, 2024 at 1:36 PM. By Camillus Eboh. ABUJA (Reuters) - Prince Harry spoke in Nigeria on Saturday of the tragic loss of the "brave souls" in the country's military who had lost their lives in ...
Nnamdi Okwu Kanu // ⓘ (born 25 September 1967) [4] [5] is a British-Nigerian [6] political activist who advocates for the secession and independence of Biafra from Nigeria. [7] He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which he founded in 2014. [8] The main aim of IPOB is to restore the defunct separatist state of Biafra ...
The insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria is a military conflict that broke out in the city of Orlu, Imo State, Nigeria on 16 January 2021, when the Nigerian Army moved to crush the paramilitary wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Eastern Security Network (ESN). [30] The conflict escalated after the ESN managed to repulse the ...
Website. State House website. Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu GCFR (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian politician who is the 16th and current president of Nigeria. [1] He was 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 ...