Nigeria postpones presidential vote

State lawyers yesterday asked for more time to file a defence against a petition seeking a declaration that voters are allowed to stay at least 200 metres from polling stations after casting their ballots on election day on Sunday.

Voters in Zambia are due to go to the polls in a presidential election caused by the death of Michael Sata last year.

A huge security operation is under way across Egypt as voters prepare to head to the polls to elect a new president.

Oil-rich Congo’s government has called an October referendum on allowing veteran leader Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has already notched up more than 30 years in power, to run for a controversial third term.

Vunjo. He went campaigning in several regions asking people to vote for him. Some will vote for him today, but he will not be able to vote for himself.

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) will deploy new technology to receive, tally and announce the presidential vote results in real time, The Citizen can report today.

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Nigerians are set to vote for state governors, some of the most powerful politicians in the country, in the final round of a lengthy election process.