Irish Examiner view: Poll troubles for African giant 

Nigeria elections

Party agents and observers look on as electoral officials count ballots in Yola, Nigeria, during the presidential election, following the final term of incumbent Muhammadu Buhari. Picture: Sunday Alamba/AP

Oil-rich Nigeria is Africa’s biggest economy and dominant country. Its population is projected to reach 400m, bigger than America’s, within three decades.

This weekend’s presidential election, the seventh since military rule ended in 1999, was clamorous and disrupted by gangs snatching ballot boxes and shots fired in the sprawling and influential mega-city of Lagos, while in the northeast Islamists opened fire on officials.