It said 21 people were killed during the elections.

The speaker of the National Assembly, Yael Braun-Pivet, said the failure of both votes means parliament has adopted the pension bill.

Sanwo-Olu, Makinde, Yahaya, Abiodun, Abdulrasaq secure re-election; ruling party retains Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, reclaims Sokoto, comfortable in Ebonyi.

The NNPP candidate polled a total of 1,019,,602 votes to defeat his closest rival, the current deputy governor of the state, who scored: 890,705.

The APC candidate has received two-thirds of the votes with 90% of the ballot collated in an election marred by incidents of voter suppression and violence.

Peter Obi has argued that Nigerians did not come out in large numbers because the results of the presidential election did not reflect their wishes.

“Nigerians trust us because we mean what we say and say what we mean,” he said.

Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Sokoto, Delta, Rivers, Benue and Plateau are battleground states.

State assemblies and judiciary get financial autonomy.

Moscow has said it does not recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC.

Opposition parties were expected to start procedures later Friday for a no-confidence vote on the government led by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

“In selecting my government, I shall not be weighed down by considerations extraneous to ability and performance,” Nigeria’s president-elect said.

He said Jandor talks from both sides of the mouth and he doesn’t see any point talking to him about an alliance.

The integrity of the election was preserved, and so, we ended up with the most improved election, he said.

Zainab Ahmed urged the incoming administration to raise VAT to 10%

This comes as Credit Suisse said it would borrow up to 50bn francs ($54bn; £44.5bn) to shore up its finances.

“If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn’t solve the problem,” TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said.

CLICK TO WATCH

It will feature Ovie Omo-Agege (APC), Great Ogboru (APGA), Ken Pela (Labour Party), Sherrif Oborewvori (PDP) Kenneth Gbagi (SDP).

However business are still reluctant to collect the old notes.