Saturday, June 27, 2026

ABDUL MAHMUD

April 28, 2025
President Bola Tinubu sleeping at AU session (Credit: Michele Spatari/AFP)
April 21, 2025

The Sultan and the terror of truth

The answer to bad speech is not censorship.

Sultan of Sokoto and Nigerian youths
April 7, 2025

When mediocrity wears Prada

Those who shape the moral frontiers of humanity do so not in pursuit of accolades but in devotion to a cause higher than themselves. 

Tinubu giving an address
March 31, 2025

The shepherd and his sheep

The ties between the political elites and their followers often mirror the timeless dynamic of the shepherd and his sheep in our country’s vast and undulating political landscape.

Bola Tinubu and Nigerian masses
March 26, 2025

Why nursing students defied Remi Tinubu in Delta

The song at Agbor was a protest wrapped in melody.

Remi and School of Nursing in Agbor.
March 24, 2025

Nigeria’s opposition is weak, disorganised and unprepared to stand up to Bola Tinubu’s lawlessness

The feckless response to the president’s coup against the Constitution underscores a far deeper malaise and systemic frailty that have hollowed out Nigeria’s opposition politics.

Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu and Peter Obi
March 17, 2025

Abdul Mahmud: Why are Nigerian men killing their wives?

The alarming rise of femicide in our country is a wake-up call for all of us.

Domestic violence
March 3, 2025

Why it’s criminal to pay Nigerian soldiers N3,000 meal allowance

If Napoleon Bonaparte is right, then our troops are being forced to march in hunger.

Nigerian Troops