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ABDUL MAHMUD

August 25, 2025

Nigeria and the empty booth in Tokyo

Soft power is not a luxury. It is a necessity.

Nigeria's empty booth at TICAD9 (Credit: Idris Ayodeji Bello)
August 18, 2025

Adebayo Adelabu’s vanity mansion and eternal life lessons

Why do some live as though the sizes of their houses measure the worth of their life?

Adebayo Adelabu with his mansion
August 11, 2025

Kabiru Mai Palace deserves credit for cemetery renovation projects

What Mr Mai Palace has done is restore dignity to the memories of our dead.

cemetery renovation project
August 4, 2025

Nigeria at Golgotha, crucified by betrayal 

Our country has drifted from the malnourished promise of a kwashiorkor democracy into the firm grip of an oligarchy where courts no longer dispense justice but serve cabal whims.

Bola Tinubu
July 28, 2025

 Kanmi Ishola-Osobu, transactional activism and the price of principles

True activists fight for the future. Transactional activists fight for contracts.

Gani Fawehinmi and Fela Kuti
July 21, 2025

As Hyacinth Alia and Monday Okpebholo become Nigeria’s latest petty tyrants

Governors aren’t elected to stoke tensions, but to calm them when they erupt.

Benue Governor Hyacinth Alia and Edo Governor Monday Okpebholo
July 14, 2025

Chidi Odinkalu’s ‘The Selectorate’ highlights Nigerians’ tolerance of rogue judges

It is a book about us: our passivity, our complicity, and our silence.

Chidi Odinkalu's new book 'The Selectorate'
July 7, 2025

How Reno Omokri misread Ahidjo-Biya political feud in Cameroon

Reno Omokri’s warning assumes that the north is incapable of political rebirth. That is untrue.

Reno Omokri and Paul Biya
June 30, 2025
Nigerian masses
June 23, 2025

How Nigeria can break its surge of large-scale bloodshed  

Today, there is no true homeland for our citizens, only homesteads of grief.

Armed herdsmen