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The Fifth Floor: Reporting Nigeria's Elections

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People waiting vote in Ede, Nigeria (credit: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/Getty Images)

02/11/2018 GMT

Reporting Nigeria's Elections

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Behind the scenes with BBC Pidgin as campaigning hots up

Pidgin and Nigeria's elections, a wartime Hanoi childhood, Gujarat’s Women's Friend radio, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Baghdad’s Rasheed Street in ruins.  With David Amanor.

Why are Nigerian politicians so keen to speak in Pidgin during election time?  BBC Pidgin editor Adejuwon Soyinka is our guide to the language, campaign tactics and eye-watering cost of Nigeria's 2019 elections. 

My Hanoi childhood in four pictures
A new collection of black and white photographs of Hanoi taken soon after the Vietnam War has transported Ha Mi of BBC Vietnamese back to her childhood.  Hanoi After The War is by John Ramsden.

Women's Friend radio
Saiyar Re Jo is a community radio run by and for women in the Kutch region of Gujarat.  Roxy Gagdekar of BBC Gujarati went to meet them.  

Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov in his own words 
BBC Russian has been studying the speeches of Chechnya’s strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.  They discovered two different characters depending on which language he speaks, Russian or Chechen.  Olga Ivshina considers the two. 

Rasheed Street remembered
Rasheed Street in Iraq's capital Baghdad used to be the heart of city, with designer stores, theatres and cafes.   Today it’s filled with rubbish, cheap stalls and warehouses.  BBC Arabic’s Haddad Salih charts its rise and fall.  

Image: People waiting vote in Ede, Nigeria 
Credit: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/Getty Images

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