Nigeria, July 12 -- The Lagos State local government election has gotten off to a slow start on Saturday, as election officials struggle to arrive on time.

Officials from the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) arrived in the Ijegun area around 9:30 am, more than an hour after the official start time of 8 a.m.

As of 10 a.m., voting, which is scheduled to end at 3 p.m., has not begun. Our correspondent observed that two out of five polling units on the premises of the Ijegun Primary School have yet to receive voting materials.

A voter, Dare Ajayi, expressed his disappointment over the delay in the arrival of voting materials. Having arrived at his polling unit as early as 7 a.m., he lamented that the materials were sti...