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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
Five dramas in one week
I initially thought last week was going to count as a happy one in Nigeria’s recent history, what with the...
Young man, go back to 1970
Independence Day, which we are marking with a public holiday today, is a usual day for lamentation in Nigeria. Newspaper...
Skip the campaign. Minds are made up
Two days from today, political parties in Nigeria will be free to flag off presidential, governorship, federal and state assembly...
Mahdi’s story get as e be
The elaborately sensational story that Kaduna-based businessman and activist Mahdi Shehu told in an Arise TV interview last week raised...
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...