Sunday, July 26, 2026

ABDUL MAHMUD

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.

April 21, 2026

Dangote, foreign interests, and local collaborators

I find Dangote’s call for stronger regional integration to be timely and necessary.

Aliko Dangote
April 13, 2026

Time for Joash Amupitan to be humble, honest in social media handle row

The burden that now rests on the nation’s top electoral umpire transcends the narrow issue of a social media handle.

Joash Amupitan.
April 6, 2026

Abdul Mahmud: When President Tinubu visited Jos Airport

The role of Governor Caleb Mutfwang in this theatre of sorrow raises difficult questions of its own.

Bola Tinubu at Jos airport
March 30, 2026

Electricity crisis and the rest of us

There is something more troubling about us, about how we have come to accommodate this abnormality as though it were inevitable.

March 23, 2026

Jonathan Ishaku and Nigeria’s post-hegemonic moment 

Nigeria reached its post-hegemonic moment, not through a single dramatic event but through a slow, wearing away of legitimacy.

Jonathan Ishaku
March 16, 2026

The revenge of geography in Northern Nigeria

Military formations must traverse enormous distances to reach remote communities, while roads that should serve as arteries of commerce become vulnerable corridors for travellers.

Zamfara villages
March 9, 2026

State police and the ghosts of our past

This does not mean that state police are inherently doomed.

Bola Tinubu and Tunji Disu