Problems with new technology have forced a 24-hour extension to the presidential election in Nigeria and renewed Boko Haram violence hit the knife-edge vote.
President Goodluck Jonathan was the most high-profile victim of the glitches with handheld readers, which scan biometric identity cards to authenticate voters to help cut electoral fraud.
His main opponent, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, had no such problems and was accredited without a hitch in his hometown of Daura, in northern Katsina state.
People in the affected areas will go back to the polls today to be processed manually after polling units where voting was possible began shutting from early evening.
The Islamist militants were suspected of killing at least seven people in separate attacks yesterday in northeastern Gombe state, including at polling stations, while on Friday, 23 people were beheaded in Borno state.
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