Sunday, July 5, 2026

ABDUL MAHMUD

June 29, 2026

The reckless hounding of Omoyele Sowore

The news publisher and activist may irritate the powerful, offend the cautious, and exhaust those who prefer gentler politics, but his characteristics are not crimes.

Omoyele Sowore and SSS agents
June 22, 2026

Our republic and its judges

History rarely repeats itself in an identical form. It does, however, preserve patterns.

Justice Peter Lifu and Federal High Court HQ
June 15, 2026

From Matawalle’s mouth to God’s ears

One wonders what conception of God permits such convenient arrangements.

Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle
June 9, 2026

Three years of reform, three years of hardship

When Bola Tinubu assumed office in May 2023, he embraced a neoliberal economic agenda built around market liberalisation, subsidy removal, currency devaluation, and fiscal austerity.

Bola Tinubu and undernourished Nigerian children
June 1, 2026

Remembering Professor Abubakar Momoh

His work traversed political theory, governance, democratic practice, and electoral studies.

Professor Abubakar Momoh
May 25, 2026

Oyo terrorist attack and its consequences

The news from Oyo should disturb the country’s conscience because it speaks to something larger than a single criminal attack.

Seyi Makinde and bandits
May 18, 2026

The dangerous moral vanity of Sheikh Gumi

Gumi has transformed himself into the itinerant interlocutor of armed gangs and violent extremists.

Sheikh Gumi and bandits
May 11, 2026

As large-scale judicial corruption threatens to destroy Nigeria 

The Nigerian republic does not merely need judges learned in law; it needs judges incapable of being purchased by political vanity.

Supreme Court and Federal High Court
May 4, 2026

Why Bola Tinubu’s political savagery is different

To frame President Tinubu as uniquely anti-democratic in Nigeria’s history is not to deny the flaws of those who came before him.

President Bola Tinubu
April 29, 2026

Abdul Mahmud: News from the sad country

What the military hierarchy and the ruling party once dismissed with emphatic denials has now assumed the weight of undeniable truth.