Ope Adetayo

Aishatu Dahiru is seek­ing to make his­to­ry as Nige­ria’s first elect­ed fe­male gov­er­nor, in Sat­ur­day’s elec­tion.

The col­la­tion of re­sults in the elec­tion that ob­servers and vot­ers say had many lo­gis­ti­cal chal­lenges is still on­go­ing.

There are 93.4 mil­lion el­i­gi­ble vot­ers for Feb­ru­ary 25 polls, the sixth since Nige­ria’s re­turn to democ­ra­cy in 1999.

Tin­ubu has a for­mi­da­ble po­lit­i­cal ma­chin­ery & is cred­it­ed with La­gos’s suc­cess­es, but can he be­come Niger­ian pres­i­dent?

Ex­perts say the new wave of at­tacks takes in­se­cu­ri­ty in Nige­ria into un­chart­ed ter­ri­to­ry ahead of the elec­tions.

A re­cap of top is­sues in West Africa in 2022, in­clud­ing heat­ed po­lit­i­cal cam­paigns and armed groups gain­ing ground.

As floods wreak hav­oc across Nige­ria, sur­vivors and ex­perts say the gov­ern­ment has failed to pro­vide suf­fi­cient re­lief.

African schol­ars say dy­nam­ics be­tween the UK and a group of most­ly for­mer colonies are an­chored on out­dat­ed prin­ci­ples.

In Nige­ria, data shows in­creased vi­o­lence against Chris­tians, es­pe­cial­ly cler­gy, and a gen­er­al rise in in­se­cu­ri­ty.

At the heart of the con­tin­u­ing strike is a 2009 agree­ment that the aca­d­e­mics claim the gov­ern­ment is yet to im­ple­ment.