Abuja, Nigeria, March 26, 2015 – Nigerian military authorities on Tuesday confined two Al-Jazeera journalists to their hotel room and have forbidden them from leaving, according to a s... Read more

By Kayode Ketefe The die is cast, the battle line is drawn, and the gauntlet is thrown! Within the next 48 hours, Nigerian electorate shall storm the polling booths across the length and bre... Read more

By Peter Nkanga/CPJ West Africa Representative A schoolgirl walks past campaign posters for Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos. Journalists covering the election campaign say they... Read more

By Philip Obaji Jr. Photograph: Emmanuel Braun/Reuters Babagana was just 16 when Boko Haram militants invaded his town, slaughtered his parents, and abducted the local children. It was midni... Read more

By Feyi Fawehinmi My friend used to tell me about a guy who went on to become a Governor of one of the South West states in the 1999 election. Before he got the Alliance for Democracy (AD) t... Read more

By Lekan Akinosho  Eligible voters in Nigeria will have the opportunity of exercising their franchise in a couple of days if the incumbent President and his ruling party, PDP, allow it... Read more

By Minna Salami Aztec thinking was all but erased from history after their defeat by the Spanish. Photograph: Archivo Iconografico/Corbis The campaign to counter the narrow-mindedness of uni... Read more

By William Branigin After becoming the country’s first prime minister in 1959, he oversaw independence from Britain and Malaysia. Wong Maye-E/AP Lee Kuan Yew, whose efficient but often heavy... Read more