Nigeria

• Bola Tinubu, the ruling APC party's candidate, was declared the outright winner of Nigeria's presidential election, apparently avoiding a runoff by securing at least 25% of the vote in two-thirds of the 36 states.
• Opposition parties are already crying fraud and demanding a new election, although observers generally found this vote as free and fair as any Nigeria has had, and Tinubu's victory margin was large enough that it's unlikely to be overturned by a fresh vote.

• The NYT wrote that some EU countries are discovering that the tanks they promised to send to Ukraine are broken or missing key parts, and those revelations are exposing a lack of military preparedness: "Believing that large-scale land war was a thing of the past and basking in the thaw of the Cold War, nations chronically underfunded their militaries."

• Russia's Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of carrying out UJ-22 drone strikes on "civilian" infrastructure targets deep inside Russia, including a state-owned gas facility within 60 miles (100 km) of Moscow.
• Russia claims it shot down or jammed all the drones, but a fire at an oil depot suggests one may have found its target.
• In response to the drone incursions, Pres. Putin ordered tighter border security and St. Petersburg briefly closed its airspace.
• Separately, Russia imposed new rules banning government officials from using most foreign words - "with the exception of foreign words which do not have widely-used corresponding equivalents in Russian" - while on duty.

• Pres. AMLO seemed to condone Tesla's plans to build a plant in Monterrey after a call with CEO Elon Musk assured AMLO Tesla would make good on its environmental commitments, which include using recycled water throughout the manufacturing process.
• AMLO had been pushing for the plant to be built in a poorer southern state, but he seems happy enough with the environmental concessions to let plans for a northern plant go ahead.

• Chevron's CEO tempered expectations for the company's production from Venezuela: even though output is nearly double what it was before Chevron secured a six-month sanctions waiver in November, he doesn't think it will rise much higher due to political risk.

• Yesterday was the deadline for M23 rebels to begin the first of three stages of withdrawing from their military positions in eastern DRC, but local reports suggest they haven't budged - and have even advanced.