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Nigeria votes for a new president after delay

Election call: People in Lagos gathered ahead of polling day to pick up the biometric card entitling them to vote. [AFP]

Nigerians vote for a new president on Saturday after a week-long delay that has raised political tempers, sparked conspiracy claims and stoked fears of violence.

Some 120,000 polling stations were due to open at 0700 GMT, from megacity Lagos and the oil hub Port Harcourt in the south, to ancient Kano in the north and the country's rural heartlands.

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