Muhammadu Buhari won the poll by four million votes, according to official results.
Muhammadu Buhari won the poll by four million votes, according to official results.
Atiku Abubakar claimed votes were suppressed among the ‘manifest malpractices’, and said democracy had been debased.
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Muhammadu Buhar won easily, by nearly four million votes.
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Nigeria's incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari has surged to an early lead in election returns, winning six of 36 states in Africa's largest democracy, while the main opposition rejected the count, alleging manipulation.
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Voting turnout appeared to be light as authorities tried to calm panicked, sceptical residents.
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The country’s electoral commission said the decision was ‘necessary for successful delivery of the elections and the consolidation of our democracy’.
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The country’s electoral commission said the move was ‘necessary for successful delivery of the elections and the consolidation of our democracy’.
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Many people are feared dead after an oil tanker overturned and exploded in Nigeria while people were scooping up leaking fuel.
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The agencies have warned that 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states will be seriously affected by severe flooding.
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Nigeria's presidency has said "killings across a number of communities" have occurred in its a central state as a report suggested 86 people had died in clashes between mostly Muslim herders and Christian farmers.
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The US sale of high-tech attack aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists will move forward despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, American officials said.
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Nigeria's First Lady has openly questioned whether her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, is in control of his government and said she may not campaign for him if he seeks a second term.
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Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari has invited the United Nations to help negotiations to swap the kidnapped schoolgirls from Chibok for detained leaders of Boko Haram, a government statement said.
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Nigeria's military has killed hundreds of Shiite Muslims, activists said, in what the country's top human rights protector is calling "a massacre".
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Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has called challenger Muhammadu Buhari to concede and congratulate him on his electoral victory, the country’s aviation minister said.
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Islamic militants who prompted global outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls have opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds in a new spasm of violence in Nigeria’s north-east.
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A protest was held outside the Nigerian Embassy in Dublin today calling for the safe return of almost 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in the country.
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President Barack Obama has said that the US will do everything it can to help Nigeria find nearly 300 teenage girls who have been missing since they were abducted from school three weeks ago.
MOREAn explosion has rocked an area of the Nigerian capital near the site of a bombing that killed at least 75 people last month.
MOREAt least 24 people have been killed in ethnic violence in a rural town in Nigeria, according to a health official.
MOREGunmen have kidnapped seven foreign workers from a construction company, including at least one British citizen, according to officials in northern Nigeria.
MOREA German engineer kidnapped in the Nigerian city of Kano about five months ago has been killed in a failed rescue attempt, officials say.
MOREAt least six people were killed today in an attack on a university campus in northern Nigeria where Catholics were holding a worship service.
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Journalists in Nigeria, already the target of threats and bribes, face a new danger after a radical Islamist sect bombed the offices of a major newspaper and vowed to “hit the media hard” in Africa’s most populous nation.
MOREThe US embassy in Nigeria has issued an emergency warning to American citizens that an Islamist sect may be planning attacks on hotels in the capital.
MOREGunmen suspected of being members of a radical Islamist sect have killed at least four people – including a six-year-old girl – in recent attacks in Nigeria’s volatile north-east, authorities said today.
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A judge in Nigeria sentenced to death the feared right-hand man of Nigeria's former military dictator over the 1996 killing of an opposition candidate's wife.
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A national strike paralysing Nigeria risks “anarchy”, the government has warned as demonstrations over spiralling fuel prices entered their third day Wednesday.
MOREAn attack by a radical Muslim sect which killed at least 69 people in north-east Nigeria has been condemned by the United Nations.
MOREAt least 19 people have died in a series of bombings and shootings in north-east Nigeria, witnesses said.
MOREAt least 23 people including several children have died after heavy rains caused flooding in the south of Nigeria, officials said today.
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A car bomb has exploded outside the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital, flattening one wing of the building and killing an unknown number of people.
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A large explosion struck the United Nations' main office in Nigeria's capital today, flattening one wing of the building.
MOREMultiple blasts have rocked a city in Nigeria's restive north east where a radical Muslim sect is accused of a rash of targeted killings, authorities said.
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has said that next week’s governor elections will go ahead, despite riots that have left more than 100 dead and forced 40,000 others to flee following the recent presidential vote in Africa’s most populous nation.
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Nigeria's president called for calm and national unity today after violent riots swept across the country's Muslim north, forcing thousands to flee in the wake of the presidential election.
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An effort to register 70 million voters across Nigeria before its April presidential election wobbled to a start, as volunteers fought with malfunctioning equipment and frustrated people struggled to find registration stations.
MORETwo French hostages captured in Niger were killed during a rescue attempt involving French forces, the country’s defence minister said tonight.
MOREDozens of armed men attacked a Nigerian church on Christmas Eve, dragging the pastor out of his home and shooting him to death, it has emerged today.
MOREA Nigerian military attack using heavily armed soldiers and aerial bombing runs has killed as many as 150 people in the oil-rich southern delta, a human rights activist said today.
MOREThe main militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has said it will launch new attacks, despite a recent military crackdown.
MOREGunmen kidnapped 15 children on their way to school near Nigeria's oil-rich and troubled southern delta.
MOREThe top religious official at the main mosque in a riot-hit Nigerian city said the death toll has reached more than 300 people in two days of election-related violence.
MOREHostage-takers have released a toddler, its nanny and a driver kidnapped four days ago in Nigeria's oil-rich south, police said today.
MOREMilitants in restive southern Nigeria today claimed to have bombed three major oil pipelines.
MOREAn armed group kidnapped 12 workers at a South Korean company’s power plant construction site in Nigeria today.
MOREAn opposition bloc called for Nigerians to mount peaceful protests to demand cancellation of a "sham" presidential vote in which the governing party was declared the winner.
MORETroops in northern Nigeria battled gunmen who had been blamed for an attack on a police station in which 12 policemen and a civilian died.
MOREAbout a dozen gunmen attacked a Total SA oil pumping station in Nigeria early today, killing three police guards and shutting down the facility, company officials said.
MOREThe family of an Irish oil worker kidnapped in Nigeria 10 days ago were today celebrating after he was released unharmed.
MOREThe Irish engineer kidnapped in southern Nigeria earlier this month has been released by his captors.
MORESix foreigners kidnapped in a nightclub raid in Nigeria’s southern oil region have been released.
MOREA Briton was confirmed to be among four people kidnapped from Nigerian night club last night, police say.
MOREAll six kidnapped British oil workers in Nigeria have been released, it was announced today.
MORETwo kidnapped British oil workers have been released in Nigeria and six more hostages who are still being held are expected to be set free later today.
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