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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
Six blindmen and elephant
There was this short story we read in our primary school English textbook many decades ago. Lifted from ancient Hindu...
Wages of Zanga Zanga
The biggest casualty of the #EndBadGovernance protests in this country so far have been the lost lives. No one knows...
Well Now, Zanga Zanga
This week may either see the biggest anti-government protests in Nigeria since #EndSARS in 2020 or, if the combined efforts...
Foul tongue of Danbilki Commander
A viral video on the social media last week of the Kano-based “Sojan Baka” Alhaji...
That missed shot at Trump
Trust Western media channels to ensure that for the next week and more, no story in this world makes it...
One bad year for incumbents
Every incumbent ruler around the world should say a prayer. The year 2024 looks to be a big Waterloo for...
Between Louse and Double Louse
Watching clips of last Thursday’s first presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden of the...
This ‘fight to the finish’
It was Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s spokesman Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa who, at the weekend, introduced the very...
Washing dishes in constrained space
The national minimum wage negotiation talks that broke down on Friday remind me of the social media story about the...
Constitution, see your babies
The principal law that governed the Fourth Republic in its 25-year existence, by far the longest of any previous Republic...