Today, voters continue to cast their ballots in the presidential and parliamentary elections taking place in Nigeria, the largest oil-producing country in Africa.
The Inspector General of Police said it had deployed about 400,000 security forces to secure the conduct of the elections.
18 candidates are competing in the presidential elections to succeed outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been in power since 2015, and the number of registered voters to vote has reached about 93 million, distributed in 36 Nigerian states.
However, the race has largely narrowed down to 3 contenders, veteran politicians Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar and new challenger Peter Obi.
Tinubu, 70, is from Buhari's ruling Progressive Congress Party, and previously served as a senator and governor of Lagos state, in the southwest of the country.
Abubakar, a 76-year-old businessman, was Vice President of Nigeria between 1999 and 2007, and is the candidate for the main opposition party, the Peoples' Democratic Party.
Obi, 61, is the youngest in the three-way presidential contest.
Obi previously held the position of governor of Anambra State, a state in the southeast of the country, and there are some polls indicating his victory.
And the French Press Agency says that these elections are decisive, noting that Nigeria, with a population of 216 million, is expected to become in 2050 the third largest country in terms of population in the world, while the West African region faces the risk of a sharp decline in democracy and the spread of violence.
Nigeria has become a global cultural powerhouse thanks to the Nollywood sector, the very strong Nigerian film industry, and the "Afrobeat" music that swept the planet with artists such as Burna Boy and Wiz Kid.