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LAGOS (Reuters) -Nigerian presidential candidate Peter Obi, whose campaign attracted young people and urban voters fed up with corrupt politics, won m...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission has announced the following results following the country's presidential election, with the final tal...

LAGOS -Outsider Peter Obi defeated his ruling party challenger to win Nigerias commercial hub of Lagos on Monday, in an upset two days after a presidential election marred by delays and complaints...

By Felix Onuah

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's electoral commission has announced the following results following the country's presidential election, with the final tal...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) -Nigerians were still voting in a national election on Sunday in a few parts of the country where technical and other glitches prevented voting from taking place as scheduled the previous day.

By Hamza Ibrahim KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) -Nigerias presidential election was marked by long delays at some polling stations on Saturday, which did not deter large crowds of voters hoping for a reset after years of worsening violence and hardship under outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari. Africas most populous nation is struggling with Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, an epidemic of kidnappings for ransom, conflict between herders and farmers, shortages of cash, fuel and power, as well as ...

By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Temilade Adelaja LAGOS (Reuters) - First-time voter Amanda Iheme has made up her mind on her choice for Nigeria's next presi...

Bandits spraying villages with bullets, killing residents and setting buildings ablaze.

GUSAU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Bandits spraying villages with bullets, killing residents and setting buildings ablaze. Rampant cattle rustling and clashes between farmers and herders. Mass kidnappings for ransom.