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By Abdul Mahmud Last week, a video emerged online. It showed the Governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, walking out of what appeared to be the...
Exchange (From Obemata’s Letters of Returning Light) lumo kai to keep the morning weightless, and the evening from closing its eyes, you must give back the...
By Abdul Mahmud In today’s Punch newspaper, my friend and fellow writer, fondly known within our writing circle as Dunni Baby, Abimbola Adelakun, asked a haunting...
By Abdul Mahmud Dear Bilyamin, Forgive the intrusion of this letter. I know it is a strange thing to write to the dead, to address one...
By Abdul Mahmud Bola Tinubu and Herbert Macaulay Bola Tinubu and Herbert Macaulay Just this last Saturday, the media aide of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu released...
By Abdul Mahmud There is a strange affliction that festers in our land. It is the compulsive habit of adorning the ordinary with grandiose labels, of...
– By Abdul Mahmud Tradition is a compass. It points to where the people have come from. It guides them through the fog of time. It...
By Abdul Mahmud Abuja. 23rd September, 2025. A date that should have been remembered with joy. A day when over 4,000 young Nigerians were called to...
By Abdul Mahmud Serena Williams has never been silent. On the court, her racket thundered against centuries of exclusion. Off the court, her voice carries the...
By Abdul Mahmud Late on Tuesday 16th September 2025, I came online to a scene that should never happen in a modern city. Live videos filled...
By Abdul Mahmud Two videos shook Kebbi State last week. Both made their way to the phones of millions of Nigerians. Both laid bare a system...
By Abdul Mahmud The streets of Kathmandu burned. The smoke carried the anger of a generation. For over a week, restless youths defied bullets. They asked...
Legal analyst and human rights lawyer Abdul Mahmud has criticised the National Assembly for preventing Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from resuming her legislative duties following the expiration...
By Abdul Mahmud “Viewer discretion is advised”. Those were the words I posted last week on X alongside images of the slain NSCDC officers. Their remains,...
By Abdul Mahmud On Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, a family of three – a father, a mother, and their young son – left a shop in...
By Abdul Mahmud Nineteen years ago, our country set out to build Africa’s largest library. The site was perfect. A cultural landmark between the National Mosque...
