By Abdul Mahmud There was a country blessed with every gift a nation could desire and cursed with rulers who mistook noise for wisdom. Rivers ran...
By Abdul Mahmud Writing about the Nigerian ruling class often feels like opening an old storehouse to take inventory of what has disappeared. Each visit reveals...
By Abdul Mahmud Public office is not a private playground. It is a place of trust which demands utmost restraint, dignity, and the discipline of speeches....
By Abdul Mahmud When Daniel Bwala recently appeared in a televised exchange with journalist Mehdi Hasan on Aljazeera, many Nigerians watched with a mixture of fascination...
By Abdul Mahmud The Nigerian virtual space was recently been filled with striking images. Young persons and the old, teenagers in-between. Men and women who turned...
PRESS STATEMENT OF LIBERTY SEMPER FIDELIS LP DATED 28 FEBRUARY, 2026 THE REVOCATION OF BAIL AND REMAND IN PRISON CUSTODY OF OUR MANAGING PARTNER Following the...
By Abdul Mahmud They were heroes once upon a time. They were the firebrands, the stone-throwers at picket lines, the shouters of slogans under the gaze...
By Abdul Mahmud When Peter Obi stood before a crowd in Akwa Ibom and declared that anyone who refuses to count votes in 2027 “we will...
By Abdul Mahmud Yesterday, a video began to circulate on social media. It spread quickly. Many Nigerians watched it with shock. In the video, Senator Onyekachi...
By Abdul Mahmud On 13 February 1975, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was killed in Lagos. Fifty years later, the date still matters because his leadership belonged...
By Abdul Mahmud When salary arrears arrive too late, they function little as relief or reprieve. They arrive as shock, as irony, as a reminder of...
By Abdul Mahmud Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve stands as a measure of collective wisdom. The debate surrounding the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and its proposed route through...
By Abdul Mahmud The Rivers State House of Assembly last week served impeachment notices on Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu respectively. The notices...
By Abdul Mahmud Writing in this column last November, I reflected on Governor Okpebholo and the figure that has come to embody his style of power,...
By Abdul Mahmud We are here at last in the decisive year before the 2027 General election; and under a political sky shaped by cooptation, consolidation,...
By Abdul Mahmud This new year scarcely requires a seer to reveal its gravity. It stands as a decisive threshold for both Nigeria’s political class and...