In one executive order the country's presidential contest has been up-ended and a sweeping cabinet reshuffle has been triggered. On 12 May, President Muhammadu Buhari called on political...

If the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, is fired by the presidential race in 2007, what will happen if neither of them runs?...

No Nigerian official has been able to explain convincingly the reasons for the delays in publishing the results of the national census held in March. That is no...

The northern Nigerian elite is in the unfamiliar position of trying to side-step the manoeuvrings of a southern President determined to block the political ambitions of at least...

Nyesom Wike’s talent for troublemaking has helped Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disrupt and co-opt large swathes of the opposition since 2023. By taking a lucrative federal portfolio,...