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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
When Prison Better Pass Home
A Nigerian would have thought that a highly industrialised country such as Japan, with the world’s third largest economy, its...
Rename White House to Black House
Thank you very much, Mr. Donald John Trump, for proposing to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America....
Carter, the Good White Man
In several decades of reading about his activities, I and many other people in this part of the world came...
Tchiani, false in one charge…
We all thought, with the impending withdrawal of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic from ECOWAS at the end of...
How to mar with statistics
Nigerians have always received official statistics figures with smiling skepticism. Almost no one believes it when government says inflation rate...
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...