In this episode of The Other Side, Rimamnde Shawulu Kwewum unpacks the deepening crisis of electoral violence sweeping across Africa. From the October 2025 elections in Cameroon, where protests and killings erupted after President Paul Biya’s re-election, to Tanzania, where reports suggest more than 700 people have died following disputed polls — the continent’s old…
The Christian Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria (CSWN), has demanded justice for Ruth Ngladar Pogu and Hassana Adamu, two of the students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno state recently freed from Boko Haram captivity. The two girls who have given birth to two children each, returned home with their captors who parade themselves as…
The ad-hoc committee set up by the Kaduna State House of Assembly to investigate the eight year administration of ex- governor Nasir El-Rufai has summoned some former and present government officials to appear before it. El-Rufai governed the state from May 2015 to May 2023. According to a statement by Suraj Bamalli, Media aide to…
Two logics, citizens are gradually getting used to, have taken hold of our country. The first logic takes the political turf as a militarised space which asserts itself as the dominant power that captures anything and everything standing in opposition, compelling all to follow its own logic. How can one discern the prevalence of this…
Nigeria’s democratic system is facing a subtle but dangerous test. Recent controversies surrounding party registration, judicial intervention in electoral outcomes, and the steady weakening of opposition parties raise fundamental questions about political competition and institutional neutrality. While elections continue to be held, their meaning is increasingly contested. When courts overturn electoral outcomes and electoral bodies…
The Kaduna state government has commenced the distribution of the second batch of palliatives with 128 trucks of rice and maize worth N3.4 billion to the less privileged. Govermor of the state, Senator Uba Sani disclosed this on Monday, during the flag-off of the distribution. Sani said the second batch of the palliatives will gulped…
