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By Abdul Mahmud “There was hunger before I was born,” President Bola Tinubu told the Catholic Bishops. He is right, only to the extent that hunger...
By Abdul Mahmud President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to return to court and vacate the order freezing the...
Abdul Mahmud Every government, however popular at its inception or confident in its own judgment, eventually confronts a danger far more destructive than organised opposition or...
By Abdul Mahmud Eight days after the death of her husband, a twenty-eight-year-old widow, Tosin, found herself confronting a tragedy that had little to do with...
By Abdul Mahmud Death has always had impeccable timing in Nigerian politics. Campaign managers, pollsters and party apparatchiks are never consulted, although the political class somehow...
By Abdul Mahmud The American-English poet, T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral is, on its face, a play about the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in...
By Abdul Mahmud The recent demonstrations in Ghana, where some protesters openly demanded that Nigerians leave their country, should trouble every thoughtful Nigerian for reasons that...
By Abdul Mahmud The 30 June deadline issued by the Afrophobic marchers in South Africa to African migrants to leave South Africa has now passed into...
By Abdul Mahmud Public officials often forget that their words travel further than their offices. A minister, adviser or presidential spokesman may regard an interview as...
By Abdul Mahmud Nigeria is fortunate to have many citizens who profess loyalty to the country. Some express that loyalty through public service, civic engagement and...
By Abdul Mahmud Governments often lionise those they choose, but history reserves its own place for those it recognises as true heroes. For anyone who followed...
By Abdul Mahmud Our country has become accustomed to almost anything, from food scarcity and high food prices to inflation. Power outages no longer provoke outrages...
By Abdul Mahmud Finally, our country has arrived at that stage of national maturity where everybody accepts suffering as a public policy and inconvenience as a...
By Abdul Mahmud The announcement came with the familiar triumphal cadence of modern counterterrorism warfare. Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, confirmed that a joint operation conducted...
By Abdul Mahmud There are moments in the life of a country when a single story captures the collapse of everything that once held its people...
By Abdul Mahmud “When I came in the school was in a sorry situation; one, there was no teachers.” That sentence, delivered by Monday Okpebholo in...
