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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
Dress code of Niger
I rubbed my eyes three times when I first saw it, to make sure that I had not gone blind...
Oyenusi, Anini, Shekau and Dogo Gide
At the weekend, I was relishing a statement issued by Defence Headquarters, saying its troops confirmed the killing of “four...
Compound tragedy at Tudun Biri
To become very well known for the wrong reasons. I lived in Kaduna for 16 years and Igabi Local Government,...
No North or South on Niger
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar was heard on the BBC Hausa service recently saying that Nigeria has been...
A trauma with few equals
One can understand the panic that enveloped large sections of this country’s political scene last week as several state governors...
Like Netanyahu, like Himmler
What is happening in the Gaza Strip, is it proof of what Karl Marx once said, quoting Hegel, that “all...
That self-fulfilling prophecy
Seven out of 36 states in Nigeria hold what we now call off-season governorship elections. Three of those states, namely...
A dish best served cold
Something that has been tried and tried again and most of the time the experiment came to grief, why does...
Final appeal to God
In 1979, when the Supreme Court panel led by Justice Atanda Fatai-Williams voted in a split 5-1-1 decision to uphold...
The lion’s false charge
There was this scene on Animal Planet channel many years ago, of a lone lion in Tanzania’s Serengeti plains, walking...