Nigeria’s 2025 political calendar will be remembered less for elections and more for moments of rupture, when power was ...

The US carried out strikes on Islamic State-linked targets in north-west Nigeria over Christmas, in what both Washington and ...

President Trump said "numerous perfect strikes" had hit Islamic State militants in the West African nation of Nigeria.

Nigeria’s worsening security crisis has acquired a disturbing familiarity, unfolding like a script repeatedly rehearsed yet ...

When American drones struck suspected terrorist positions in Sokoto State on Christmas night, the operation was presented ...

This is the season of coalitions, alignments, and realignments of political forces ahead of the “magical” 2027, which may make or mar both the political and economic fortunes of politicians, their ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said the late Chief Audu Ogbeh’s impact on Nigerian politics and society will resonate for generations, describing him as a unifying statesman whose legacy of humility, ...

In 2025, Nigeria's political climate grew tense amid worsening insecurity, US President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention, a state of emergency in Rivers State, and unprecedented ...

Here’s the list of the biggest winners in Nigerian politics in 2023. Some of these people aren’t just election winners, many of them won big even without having their names on the ballots. So, as the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Of the few guiding axioms of Nigerian politics, perhaps none is more indelible ...

The Roman Catholic Church has deep-seated roots in Nigeria’s politics, which can make or break elections in the Middle Belt and southeastern regions. Shackled by an image problem due to its inability ...

He took to X to express his outrage over the issue, over what he described as a “toxic culture of tribal bigotry.” He accused certain individuals of manipulating people's love and loyalty to their ...