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Nigeria election: counting under way

The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.

Ballots are being counted in Nigeria's postponed general election, although voting has been extended to a second day in a handful of places. We ask Judith Tyson of the Overseas Development Institute if the one week delay in the election is an early indication there are problems in the process. The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is at the Mobile World Congress, where Huawei is push back against recent allegations of spying by the United States. Fairtrade have a report out today about how cocoa farmers in Africa are not being paid enough. We speak to Fairtrade's director, Michael Gidney. And it's Oscar night in Hollywood. We get the lowdown on the nominees from celebrity branding authority Jeetendr Sehdev.

(Photo: votes prepared to be counted in Nigeria. Credit: Getty Images.)

23 minutes

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  • Mon 25 Feb 201901:06GMT