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By Abdul Mahmud Some countries build monuments to their heroes because they understand something that Nigeria appears to have forgotten: a nation does not preserve its...
By Abdul Mahmud August has ended, but it has left behind the peculiar silence that follows the departure of people whose lives had become part of...
By Abdul Mahmud Last week, I read a few Facebook posts about the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference which took place in Port Harcourt....
By Abdul Mahmud Exactly 35 years ago today, on Wednesday, 28 August 1991, the gates of the Maximum Security Prison, Kirikiri, were finally flung open, and...
By Abdul Mahmud In my op-ed last week, Nigeria’s CODESA Moment, I argued that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) had not yet entered the kind...
By Abdul Mahmud The reported death of Faith Alayande, a 23-year-old female student of the Nigerian Law School who was found dead after a fall from...
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...
