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Nigeria plans to postpone elections


Nigeria's independent election commission has requested that January's presdential polls be postponed.

Officials say they need more time to overhaul the country's electoral register.

But critics are already up in arms over the proposed delay.

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from Abuja.

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