ICC Note: For the first time in Nigeria’s history, the country has inaugurated an opposition-candidate president who has unseated the incumbent. Muslim Muhammadu Buhari assumed the office and faces a host of challenges including a continuing Boko Haram insurgency in the country’s north that threatens the lives and freedom to practice religion for Christians who have long experienced persecution from extremist Muslims. Will this Muslim president promote policies that will ease the plight of the persecuted church, or will he return to past statements that expressed desire for the expansion of Muslim Sharia law in Nigeria?

5/29/15 Nigeria (BBC) – The winner of Nigeria’s presidential election in March, Muhammadu Buhari, has been sworn in as leader of Africa’s most populous country.

Mr Buhari is the first opposition figure to win a presidential election in Nigeria since independence in 1960.

“I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody”, he told cheering crowds at the inauguration in the capital, Abuja.

He vowed to tackle “head on” the issues of corruption and the insurgency from militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

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