The newly created Ministry of Livestock Development will push Nigeria's ministerial count to 50. President Tinubu's federal executive cabinet is the largest since Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999.
Within the first 12 years of the Fourth Republic, the largest cabinet had 30 ministers. President Jonathan was the first to have more than 30 ministers, with subsequent terms having more ministers.
In 2023, Nigerians went to the polls to elect the president and Federal House of Assembly members and elect state governors and House of Assembly members. Here's a breakdown of the 14,859 candidates who participated in the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
INEC has started its continuous voter registration against the 2023 general election. In 2019, 21% of Nigeria’s voting-age population did not register to vote.
Africa has witnessed 83 coup attempts since 1990, 42 of which were successful. The latest, Sudan's military coup, occurred yesterday, Monday, October 25, 2021. Although rare today, coups still threaten democracy. Here are the attempted coups in Africa since 1990.
President Tinubu was recently elected to take over from President Umaro Embaló of Guinea-Bissau as ECOWAS Chairman, making him the 9th from Nigeria. Since its inception, new chairmen have emerged 36 times, with Nigeria producing the most chairmen. Four countries in the ECOWAS region have collectively produced more than half of the chairmen since the organisation's founding, with each contributing multiple chairmen. Cape Verde is the only member country yet to produce a chairman.
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