President Bola Tinubu has sent the name of Abbas Balarabe, secretary to the Kaduna state government (SSG) as a ministerial nominee from Kaduna to the senate for confirmation. Abbas was nominated to replace Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, whose confirmation was withheld by the senate over security report.El-Rufai was initially nominated as minister but…
In this episode of The Other Side, Rimamnde Shawulu examines how dictatorship corrodes society — from destroying the rule of law, silencing free thought, fueling corruption, and weaponizing ethnicity, to crippling institutions that should safeguard democracy. Using Nigeria as a case study since 1999, this documentary-style analysis highlights: How governors evolved from powerful state leaders…
The students wing of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG- SW) has called for the deployment of security to campuses. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday in Kaduna, Hassan Adamu National Cooratnator of the CNG- SW expressed concern over growing insecurity in campuses in the North. He lamented that banditry attacks and kidnapping of students…
Plateau governor-elect, Caleb Mutfwang, has promised to work with other leaders toward returning persons displaced by violent attacks to their ancestral land. Mutfwang made the promise on Saturday in Jos at the 2023 Nzem Berom, a cultural festival of the Berom ethnic nationality in Plateau state. Many people whose communities were taken over by rampaging…
The National Council of State (NCS) has granted pardon to a former governor of Plateau state, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, also a former governor of Taraba state. The former governors were serving jail terms for corruption. The NCS at its meeting on Thursday, at the State House, Abuja, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari,…
The Christian Association of Nigeria has demanded the sacking of the Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank, Abubakar Suleiman, over a controversial Easter advert. In a statement signed on Wednesday by the National Secretary, Joseph Daramola, CAN stated that the advert was “wicked and insensisitve” towards Christians. In the controversial advert, Sterling Bank published its…
