There is still one more state - Borno - to be declared in Nigeria before the results of the presidential election are official.

The electoral commission, Inec, quotes its chairman Attahiru Jega in this tweet, external: "Under the circumstances, it's safe to assume that we will reconvene around 8pm when the results will arrive"- Jega #Nigeriadecides"

That means a two-hour delay before Gen Buhari is likely to be declared the winner.

According to the head of the BBC's Hausa Service Mansur Liman, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has called Muhammadu Buhari to concede election victory and to congratulate him

With only one state to be declared in the Nigeria presidential election the results are:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 14,954,400

• PDP's Goodluck Jonathan: 12,827,522.

The only state to declare is the north-eastern state of Borno, which has been at the heart of the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency.

The returning officer for Nigeria's southern Delta state is reading the results for his state at the electoral centre in Abuja.

BBC Afrique producer Genevieve Sagno has interviewed Nina Miskina, a rapper originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, about her controversial lyrics.

She said that her music is influenced by her difficult past - including the eight months she spent working as a prostitute in Belgium.

"We need more female hip-hop artists because there aren't enough points of view from women reflected in rap," the singer said.

South Africa's Channel 24 predicts, external comedian Trevor Noah may lose his job as the host of the Daily Show before he has even begun. A trawl through his old tweets show some dubious jokes.

Here is one of the tweets he is being criticised for:

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The BBC's Charlotte Attwood in Kano says despite the fact that there are still election results to come from three states in Nigeria the streets of the northern city are already packed with supporters of opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

Earlier, newspaper vendors in Kano were doing a roaring trade.

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BBC News

tweets:, external "A guy holds a traditional broom, symbol of #Buhari's APC party as # Kano celebrates his win. #Nigeria"

Investors have told Bloomberg News, external that the market will react positively to a Gen Buhari win in the Nigerian election. But there is a warning that this is dependent on President Jonathan accepting defeat.

Francois Conradie, a political analyst at South Africa's NKC Independent Economistss, said that if Gen Buhari wins, he expects to see the most trouble in the oil-rich Delta region and in the northern states currently controlled by Mr Jonathan's PDP.

Yacouba Ouedraogo, who has been covering Nigeria's election for BBC Afrique, tweets, external in French that after former President Olusegun Obasanjo, if Gen Buhari wins he will become the second person to lead Nigeria as a military man and civilian.

He also included this image in his tweet, in reference to the calm conduct of electoral chairman Attahiru Jega, who is being much admired on social media.

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A man in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt in the south of the country, looks on at an oil tanker carrying fuel that exploded after an accident. Officials at the scene said one person was killed, the European Photopress Agency reports.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has confirmed he has received the report looking into the shooting dead of 34 striking miners by police in Marikana in 2012. But his office said he won't look at it until he is back from a visit to Algeria.

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The killings reminded some South Africans of how the apartheid regime dealt with protesters.

Nigerians celebrate the anticipated victory of opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the city of Kaduna, north of the capital Abuja, by doing stunts on their scooters.

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A South African reading project has won the world's largest children's literature award. Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa produced a series of books in different African languages.

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They also formed a network of reading clubs to encourage children to read and inspire parents, grandparents and teachers to read with them. For more details go to the BBC News story.

BBC Hausa Service editor Mansur Liman predicts that the results from the northern states of Borno and Sokoto will cancel whatever majority is returned from Delta in the south for the PDP's Goodluck Jonathan.

He says opposition APC candidate Gen Buhari is on course to win Nigeria's 2015 general elections.

Here is a BBC graphic showing the Nigerian presidential results by state up to 15:30 GMT today:

Nkem Ifejika
BBC World Service, Abuja

tweets, external about the slow announcement of Nigeria's presidential election: "After this ordeal, I'll need fried plantain and/or pounded yam and afang soup. #NigeriaDecides"

There are only three more states to be declared - and there is now a short break in proceedings.

Milton Nkosi
BBC Africa, Johannesburg

South Africans are still excited at the news that Trevor Noah will host the Daily Show after John Stewart leaves. This is the headline of The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.

The World Health Organization has released its latest data on Ebola cases, external. They counted 14,764 confirmed cases across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone two days ago.

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With only three more states to be declared in the Nigeria presidential election the results are:

• APC's Muhammadu Buhari: 14,233,564

• PDP's Goodluck Jonathan: 11,463,918