View from the gallery
Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
Beef, boycott and blockade
Viewing events of the past week from the gallery, I was not surprised that the symbolic campaign against beef consumption...
I am fleeing back to 1980
Please, these new rail lines that the government said it is building with Chinese loans, which one of them can...
Shasha, Kagara and Billiri
If you are the President of this Federal Republic, and in the middle of a security briefing about the mayhem...
40 years without Magatakarda
He died exactly 40 years ago yesterday but in my mind’s eye, I can still see my paternal grandfather Magatakarda...
This clamour for ‘our own son’
Right now, the big clamour in town is that the next Inspector General of Police must be a native...
Bottom-Up could go burst
The declaration in Daura on Saturday that the ruling All Progressives Congress will march forward to a new type...
Pol Pot, Shah, Hirohito and Mobutu
As President of the United States, leader of the Western World and most prominent political figure in the world, Donald...
Conde, Ouattara and Museveni
The physical, political, legal, institutional and psychological walls that he erected in the last four years kept many immigrants out...
If you do not say something…
When I saw media images of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Church’s Sokoto Diocese struggling to explain what...
May 2021 not be so rough
In one of our secondary school English textbooks in the 1970s, we read about a New Year message that the...