Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Nigeria's electoral commission, INEC, has allayed fears over the slow uploading of polling unit results of Saturday's presidential and National Assembly election results on its result viewing portal (IRev).

Voting has ended in most of the over 176,000 polling units where the election was held across the country on Saturday.

Some Nigerians had taken to social media to express their frustrations as to why almost 24 hours after voting ended only scanty results of the polls had been uploaded on the portal, contrary to the promise by INEC to upload the results on the portal as soon as counting ended.

In a statement by its Commissioner for Voter Education, Festus Okoye, INEC said it was aware of the challenges and blamed ...