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Archive: February 2015 (1 Post)

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FALQs: Nigeria’s 2015 Election

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. It is election season in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation.  This is the fifth election cycle in the country since democracy was restored in 1999 after many years of military rule.  Elections conducted since then, particularly presidential elections, had been marred with various controversies, including …