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Monday Column by Mahmud Jega
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...
She told the truth
As a man with one leg in pension’s old Defined Benefit Scheme and another leg in the Contributory Pension...
With sand up to his knees
Maybe because I am in Egypt, the politico-legal fishing expedition that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar launched in Chicago to...
See what name changes did
While waiting in a small corner room to go in for ultrasound at a Cairo hospital at the weekend, I...
Blows for wig and crown
Two blows landed last week, almost simultaneously, on what were thought to be some of this country’s most venerable heads....