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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

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Nigeria waits for election result – in pictures 

                         
With about half the votes counted and no clear winner, tension mounts in Nigeria after the most competitive election in years

                                                                                                           
  • Men read newspaper headlines on a street in Lagos
    Newspaper headlines attract attention on a street in Lagos
  • A supporter of Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) poses for a picture in Lagos
    A supporter of Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress, in Lagos
  • Independent National Electoral Commission chairman, Attahiru Jega, left, views election results at the coalition center in Abuja
    Attahiru Jega (left), chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, with a list of results at the coalition centre in Abuja
  • People watch election news coverage on television at a street in Lagos on Monday night
    Election news coverage on television in Lagos on Monday night
  • Journalists observe election results displayed on a screen in Abuja, Nigeria, on Monday night
    Journalists look at the results on a screen in Abuja on Monday night
  • A car passes in street of Part Harcourt in front of a campaign billboard of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan
    A campaign billboard of President Goodluck Jonathan on a street in Port Harcourt
  • A group of Nigerian men drink beer and listen to television updates on the election results, at the Flexx Bush Bar and Lounge in the Sabon Gari neighborhood of Kano
    Listening to television updates over a beer at the Flexx Bush Bar and Lounge in the Sabon Gari neighbourhood of Kano
  • A Nigerian man looks at election figures on his smartphone after 9 of the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory of Abuja had declared their results, sent to him by a friend, at the Flexx Bush Bar and Lounge in the Sabon Gari
    Checking election figures on a smartphone at the Flexx Bush Bar after nine of the 36 states and Federal Capital Territory of Abuja had declared their results
  • A woman closes her street shop in Port Harcourt as an overnight curfew was imposed in Nigeria’s southern Rivers state as tensions ran high results
    A woman closes her shop in Port Harcourt as an overnight curfew is imposed in the southern Rivers state because of tensions running high
  • A puppet showing Governorial candidate Nasir Ahmad El Rufai is set in the street in Kaduna
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