by James Bolton | Nov 21, 2023 | University of Memphis
Nigeria has experienced severe electoral flaws in recent elections, and this represents why poor electoral processes are one of the biggest threats to any democratic nation. Electoral irregularities represent a primary form of democratic backsliding, so the errors in...
by Lian Hochen | Apr 25, 2022 | University of Georgia
The growing prosperity in Nigeria’s workforce and resource abundance presents the state with the necessary foundation for developing into a successful democracy. The chance at this success, however, could quickly become eradicated by the presence of its growing...
by Eli Ameyibor | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
When All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Muhammadu Buhari defeated the incumbent Johnathan Goodluck from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 Nigerian election, many saw the country as finally heading toward democracy. Goodluck had been in...
by Tzion Jones | Jan 19, 2021 | Brown University
Social media and democracy often share a love-hate relationship in the Global South. In many cases, the blessing of free communication arrives alongside an infectious misinformation curse. In Nigeria, widespread use of WhatsApp makes the two especially hard to...
by Marc Jamali | Apr 24, 2020 | Georgia State University
How the growing pandemic is threatening stability in Africa’s largest nation Even though Nigeria still has a relatively low number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of this moment, the chaos that has gripped the country and the delight among some that the virus...
