Several polling stations in Nigeria attacked

By Xinhua News Agency

Feb 27, 2023 12:06 am

LAGOS: Nigerian police said on Saturday that several polling stations had been attacked by gunmen in Lagos, the nation's economic hub, during the presidential and national assembly polls.

Idowu Owohunwa, the police chief in Lagos, told reporters at a press conference in Lagos that 25 staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission deployed to the affected polling stations in the Oshodi area of Lagos have been evacuated with electoral materials to the state police headquarters.

SACRED VOTES A member of the National Youth Service Corps checks electoral materials before returning them to the INEC offices in Amawbia, Awka on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, during Nigeria's presidential and general election. AFP PHOTO

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