Category: West Africa

Supporters celebrate at Mr Buhari’s campaign headquarters in Abuja The runner-up in Nigeria’s presidential election has rejected the result as a “throwback to the jackboot era of military dictatorship”. Atiku Continue Reading

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, has won a second term in office with a lead of over three million over opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar, who made some bold promises on the Continue Reading

The fear that militancy in the oil-rich Niger Delta could revive after the re-election of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, can be addressed if the Federal Government sustains its engagement with Continue Reading

Royal Dutch Shell yesterday disclosed that the federal government’s recent claims that it owed Nigeria billions of dollars of unpaid oil and gas-related taxes could delay the development of its Continue Reading

Nigeria seeking nearly US$20 billion from international oil majors in back taxes could delay the approval of a major offshore oil project, Shell’s Upstream Director Andy Brown told Reuters on Continue Reading

With Nigeria relying heavily on oil as its main source of revenue, the recent move by Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut down daily oil production of Continue Reading

As many as 39 people were killed in election violence so far in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaits the results of voting in what Continue Reading

Nigeria’s two main presidential candidates urged the public to vote in a pivotal election on Saturday as they tried to avert a slump in turnout after a week-long delay to Continue Reading

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari casts his vote at a polling station in Daura, Katsina State Nigerians are finally going to the polls for the country’s general election following a last-minute Continue Reading