Six states in Nigeria on Friday night withdrew a suit asking the Supreme Court to void the result of the just-concluded presidential election, the latest twist in several challenges facing the ruling party’s victory in the vote.

Tensions are mounting in Nigeria’s capital as election officials continue releasing official results from Saturday’s presidential vote

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has won the presidential election held in Ondo State on Saturday.

Vote counting is under way in Nigeria's tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999.

Some frustrated Nigerians cast their ballots with flashlights while others stood watch at their polling stations as counting got under way late Saturday amid fears of vote tampering after a day of delays in Africa’s most populous nation.

On the 24th anniversary of the election that returned Nigeria to Democracy in 1999, Nigerians will today file out to elect a President that will run the country for another four years, effective May 29.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the collation of 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday at midday.

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All Progressives Congress’s Bola Tinubu is likely to do well in two of the country’s biggest voting states - Kano and Lagos.

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Faruk Yahaya, who stated this, also warned criminals and thugs to stay away from and desist from causing infractions in the elections.

The Nigerian military has denied a claim by the governing party that it is planning to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council has expressed its commitment to ensure that in 2023, Nigeria makes more than $4.82bn it generated from non-oil export business in 2022.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, adjourned the hearing on the suit filed by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) seeking a referendum to determine the fate of Biafra and other self-determination agitations to March 30, 2023.

The terrorists abandoned their properties and weapons with at least 50 bicycles recovered during the raid.

The United Nations has said the Nigerian economy will grow to three per cent in 2023 because of a robust commodities trade and dynamic consumer goods and services markets.

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, congratulated his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on the Chinese New Year, Year of the Rabbit, beginning January 22.

Nigeria’s pivotal role in the development and regional integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was further strengthened on Friday with the Official inauguration of the building housing Nigeria’s Permanent Mission to ECOWAS.

Nigeria first voted in presidential elections just over 43 years ago in October 1979.

Ali, who was formerly with the 3 Division in Jos, Plateau State, was appointed on Saturday according to a release by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu.

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