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ABDUL MAHMUD

February 24, 2025

How Tinubu, National Assembly should handle 178,000 stolen police firearms

Across the vast, ungoverned spaces of our country, where state policing is little more than a fanciful notion, criminals armed with stolen firearms reign unchecked.

Armed police officers on duty
February 17, 2025

Before Tinubu taxes Nigerians to death

If Tinubu fails to learn from these lessons, he risks turning our citizens into perpetual beggars and hitchhikers on the road to serfdom.

Bola Tinubu and Nigerian masses
February 10, 2025

Nigeria’s misguided pursuit of 31 new states

Restructuring should focus on enhancing the capacity of existing states to generate revenue, manage resources, and deliver service

Nigerian map
February 3, 2025
January 27, 2025

Abdul Mahmud: Elections have consequences, but stolen elections have far-reaching consequences

Across many subnational states, governance has been reduced to a circus of empty rhetoric.

Mahmood Yakubu
January 21, 2025

Abdul Mahmud: How Tinubu’s lofty propaganda omits prosperity, security for Nigerians

Citizens continue to bear the brunt of reforms that prioritise the market over human welfare.

President Bola Tinubu
January 13, 2025

It’s time Nigerians stop celebrating thieves as heroes

When our people celebrate rogues, they convey the message that morality and integrity are irrelevant; what matters is wealth, power, and more wealth.

James Ibori, Bola Tinubu and Yahaya Bello 
January 6, 2025

Why Tinubu must focus on addressing Nigeria’s acute hunger in 2025

Hunger is a failure of governance with tragic consequences for our humanity.

HUNGRY CHILDREN; TINUBU SLEEPING
January 1, 2025

Abdul Mahmud: Bola Tinubu’s free market blues

If President Tinubu’s free market continues to ignore fundamental realities, he risks hurting our country and ruining it.

President Bola Tinubu
December 24, 2024

Reflecting on growing threats to Nigeria’s democracy, capitalism

Of course, the future is already here, with bad actors using constitutional means to capture the state and enthrone the dictatorship of the worst kind.

Bola Tinubu and Nigerian masses