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Mahmud Jega focuses on local Nigerian topics, particularly government and politics, culture & society. His coverage includes expert commentary and legal policy regulation. He appears to be interested in themes related to the Niger region, conflict, politics, humanitarian crisis, and development.
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One would have thought that a ruling party that within the course of one year snatched ten sitting governors and a bevy of Federal and state legislators from opposition parties is already regarding the 2027 elections as a slam dunk. It should be popping up the bottles in celebration, but it looks like the Tinubu […]
The late British Queen Elizabeth II once described the year 1992 as her “annus horribilis,” i.e. horrible year, because three of her children, Prince [now King] Charles, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew all divorced their spouses that year, in addition to a blitz of negative publicity for the monarchy and a fire at Windsor Castle. […]
In January 1981, several decades before the advent of social media, a comedy skit was aired by an American television network. In it, outgoing US President Jimmy Carter was briefing ultra-conservative President-elect Ronald Reagan. Reagan showed little interest and fiddled with a pen as Carter went over intricate economic and social issues in his handover […]
Tell them I am coming! Haba! You mean I cannot get some rest, even after I have been declared the winner of this primary election and our party’s governorship candidate? I cannot even remember the last time I lay down on my bed and slept for more than an hour. Visitors, visitors, day and night. […]
From the political scene, to the judicial chambers, to the criminal arena, to social media space and on to marital beds, stories emanating out of Nigeria last week ranged from the curious to the incredulous, to the puzzling and on to the dubious in short order. There was this story that Benue State Government appointed […]
Unlike the situation twelve years ago when the issue of state police divided Nigeria Governors Forum right down the middle, there appears today to be a more ready acceptance of the idea. Many Nigerians want us to move forward from the present situation of a single, federal police force to a dual, separate state and […]
I have seen many senior lawyers, including President of the Nigeria Bar Association [NBA] Mazi Afam Osigwe (SAN), condemning the reported arrest in Ibadan on Monday of the father of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, Director General of the fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). Policemen reportedly arrested Adeyemi’s father at his 3, Adeniyi Dynasty Ogbomoso, […]
The death last month of Kaduna State-born nurse Mary Habila in a powerful Federal Minister’s country home in Ebonyi State has already caused shock and mystery around the country, but it is only the latest in a string of such mysterious deaths linked to power and wealth in Nigeria over several decades. As schoolboys in […]
The blistering exchange last week between the Presidency and the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria and in particular, Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja John Cardinal Onaiyekan reminded me of the tussle in Manila in the 1980s between the Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Archbishop of Manila, Jaime Cardinal Sin. The outspoken Archbishop once declared himself to […]
At the weekend, I joined millions of Nigerians in expressing surprise, awe, amazement, puzzle, incredulity, shock and bewilderment having read the “alarm” raised by former Vice President and African Democratic Congress [ADC] presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, Waziri Adamawa, that he received a credit alert from an anonymous person or persons that paid money into one […]
