GhanaWeb set to cover Nigeria's presidential, national assembly elections

An exclusive coverage of Nigeria's Presidential and National Assembly election scheduled for Saturday, February 25 will be live on our affiliate news portal, mynigeria.com.

MyNigeria.com, Nigeria's first vertical portal, content curation and syndication website will run a 360 coverage of the elections from 8:30 am, INEC's designated time to the conclusion when the winner of the presidential election is announced.

With less than 24 hours to the polls, GhanaWeb readers can be assured of accurate results from the more than 176,606 polling stations. Correspondents spread across the six geo-political regions will report live from the 36 states across the federation.

The 2023 presidential election, described as the most competitive since 1993 and 1999 will see 18 presidential candidates vying to replace President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock.

1,101 candidates for the Senate and 3,122 candidates will vie for federal constituencies in the House of Representatives.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says a total of 1,265,227 officials have been trained and will be deployed for the elections. They include presiding, collation and returning officers, as well as 530,538 polling unit security officials.

The election body also noted that it will issue 1,642,386 identification tags for the polling and collation officers, and provide 176,846 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) devices and 17,618 BVAS machines for backup.

These devices verify the identity of voters by checking fingerprints and facial features electronically.

The 2023 general election is the biggest by an African country as 87 million eligible Nigerians are expected to vote.