TEHRAN, Feb 27 - President Muhammadu Buhari has won a second term in Nigeria, the election board said on Wednesday, but his main rival planned a fraud challenge after a vote marred by delays, logistical glitches and scores of deaths.
TEHRAN, Feb 26 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's election lead grew on Tuesday during a second day of announcing state-by-state election results in Africa's largest democracy. The death toll in vote-related violence rose to 53 as an extremist attack was found to be worse than first reported.
TEHRAN, Feb 26 - Nigerians went to the polls to vote for the presidential elections. The rivals included incumbent President Muhammad Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
TEHRAN, Feb 24 - Nigeria's army says it killed six people it describes as "political hoodlums" in Rivers state in the deadliest reported confrontation on election day.
TEHRAN, Feb 24 - Polls have closed in most parts of Nigeria in the presidential and parliamentary elections which were delayed by a week to logistical problems. Press TV Correspondent, Danjuma Abdullahi has more in this report.
TEHRAN, Feb 23 - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari cast his ballot in the presidential election on Saturday as polls opened after a week-long delay, television images on Channels TV showed.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 -Two Nigerian soldiers have been killed and six others injured when Boko Haram militants attacked a military post near the Cameroon border, security sources say, days before rescheduled presidential elections.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 -Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is to hold an emergency meeting with senior members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party over the week-long postponement of the country’s election delay, the party media office said on Monday.
TEHRAN, Feb 16 -Nigeria’s president and the leading opposition candidate urged people to remain calm after a national election scheduled for Saturday was postponed by a week just five hours before polls were due to open.
Nigeria’s presidential election, which was due to be held on Saturday, has been postponed to Feb. 23, the chairman of the country’s electoral commission said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Around 30,000 people fled into Cameroon at the weekend from the Nigerian city of Rann, fearing an attack by Boko Haram militants, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Jan 26 - Nigeria’s main opposition party has halted its presidential election campaign for 72 hours weeks ahead of the vote in protest at the suspension of the country’s most senior judge by President Muhammadu Buhari, it said on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 -The Boko Haram Takfiri militants have attacked a military base and set fire to shelters for those displaced by the conflict in northeastern Nigeria, leaving seven people dead.
TEHRAN, Jan 12 - An overturned oil tanker exploded in Nigeria while dozens of people were scooping up the leaking fuel and many were killed, police and witnesses said Saturday.
TEHRAN, December 25 - Nigeria said it has resolved a dispute with Africa's largest mobile operator over $8.13 billion (6.96 billion euros) which it accused MTN of illegally repatriating to South Africa.
TEHRAN, December 17 -Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria's oil minister, said the West African country's oil production may rise 60 percent by 2020, as the offshore Egina project comes online and as the country invests to recover output, in parallel to efforts to fight alleged bribing corruption involving two oil multinationals.
TEHRAN, December 16 -At least 12 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and dozens of others have gone missing following clashes with Takfiri militants in the northeastern state of Borno.
TEHRAN, December 15 -The Nigerian military has suspended the activities of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in the African country’s ravaged northeast, claiming that the staff of the agency has purportedly been spying for the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group.