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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
An Irish lesson for Kemi
Madam Olukemi Olufunto Adeleke Badenoch, who thinks of herself as British because she lives in Britain, is married to a...
Memory of Monster Tanaka
Apart from stories of kidnapping, fraud and cost of living crisis which are the staple in Nigerian news media, the...
When method ruins the goal
It has been long since I saw anything like it. Since last week, when the Senate turned down objections from...
One quarter want to flee
The report put out by the National Bureau of Statistics last week that one out of every four Nigerians...
Dead bat on governor’s bed
What message was brand-new Governor of Edo State Monday Okpebholo sending to Nigerians when he said at a thanksgiving service...
Moving forward from cliff’s edge
“Let us move forward.” We hear a bit less of that now but for two or three decades, this was...
Almost another Black Maria moment
Nigeria Police is not exactly new to public relations scandal, but last Friday’s episode, when it charged 32 severely malnourished...
Pitfalls of cabinet reshuffle
Let us begin from the most obvious: no minister wants to be dropped from the President’s cabinet, if he or...
Wounds that time healed
We thank God for the long life of General Yakubu Gowon, the youngest ever, the most smartly dressed ever, the...
Worse than one sided
Editors of Nigerian print and online newspapers and websites, are you not tired of using the word “sweep” to report...