View from the gallery
Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
Taking potshots at cops
If you see a lone Nigerian cop walking along a street, with or without a gun slung on his tired...
Why Not The Best [hospitals]?
It is the tradition of American politicians running for president to write a book. In 1975, peanut farmer, former Governor...
This fear of COVID vaccine
I had my first round of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination last Monday. Information on my card said I should come back...
Crying wolf, when it could be a squirrel
The most engaging story in Nigeria at the weekend was the reported attack by gunmen on Benue State Governor Samuel...
Our money or our arms
During every stick up in the 1930s, American gangster Ma Barker put a revolver in the victim’s face and said,...
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...