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By Abdul Mahmud A woman lies on a hospital bed. Her life is running out. Doctors stand by her. Her family prays. Online friends are losing...
By Abdul Mahmud There are times when a country’s silence becomes louder than public statements. Nigeria has lived through such a season, one that the famous...
By Abdul Mahmud On Thursday 27 November 2025, I found myself driving through the gates of Mambilla Barracks in Abuja. It was my first time inside...
By Abdul Mahmud Tomorrow, Thursday 27 November, scholars, activists, and citizens will gather at the University of Jos for the Frantz Fanon Centennial Conference. It is...
By Abdul Mahmud The world is turning and reinventing itself to confront new destructive ideologies. Saudi Arabia is turning with it and reinventing itself. The country...
By Abdul Mahmud Another week has opened in Nigeria with blood on the ground and fear in the air. The country wakes up each morning to...
By Abdul Mahmud There are times when ideas become prisons. When ideology blinds those who hold it. When conviction turns into a wall that shuts out...
By Abdul Mahmud The word genocide carries the weight of humanity’s darkest memories. It is a grave word. It names a crime so monstrous that it...
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...
