Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term, the election commission says. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of nearly four million votes. Mr Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party … Read more →
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has released a statement on the missing Chibok girls to mark the one year that has elapsed since their disappearance. In the statement, Buhari says that although he can’t guarantee that the girls will be rescued, his … Read more →
Muhammadu Buhari has ruled Nigeria before, as one of a line of military strongmen who dominated the country between 1966 and 1999. A military coup brought Buhari to power in late 1983 — closing a brief period of popular rule … Read more →
I join well-wishers in the rest of Africa and across the world to extend warm congratulations to the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, on his decisive victory in the March 28, 29 Nigerian presidential election, thus becoming the next … Read more →
Opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari has swept to victory in the Nigerian general election, inflicting the first defeat of an incumbent government in the history of Africa’s biggest democracy. With 35 of Nigeria’s 36 states declaring results, Buhari had polled 14,951,378 … Read more →