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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
Waiting 70 years for throne
Waiting four weeks to see a bank alert for your monthly salary is trying enough for a Nigerian. Some people...
I am no fan of Gorbachev
When I heard last week of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, I remembered...
Quacks, suits, bags, London mission
I hear that Academic Staff Union of Universities National President Emmanuel Osodeke is a professor of Soil Science. That...
Termites are suing for libel
As a trained Zoologist, former ground-level lecturer in Biological Sciences and a one-time ASUU member who has long since forgotten...
In the midst of one…
It was supposed to be an internal memo from University of Abuja Teaching Hospital’s Public Relations Unit, dated August 12....
Concert of anti-party activists
It was External Affairs Minister Professor Bolaji Akinyemi who, in the 1980s, spearheaded the formation of a Concert of Medium...
Tricks and Traps of Interview
Russia-Ukraine style exchange of long-range artillery shells and small arms fire dominated the news in Nigeria at the weekend as...
That sinking Carter feeling
In November 1980, at his first cabinet meeting a few days after he lost the presidential election to Ronald Reagan,...
Big bowl of oily meat
Medical doctors in Nigeria are grimacing this week at the prospect that many more patients will come in complaining of...
A Wild, Wild Zamfara?
Several times in the last decade when the insecurity situation got out of hand, religious, traditional, community, political and sometimes...