Columns

By Mahmud Jega The most visible element of the Nigerian political season is the rally, and until last Saturday when

By Mahmud Jega Many of the [on the one hand] spectacular and [on the other hand] curious events and statements

By Mahmud Jega Several prominent political names missing from the final list of governorship candidates for next year’s elections released

By Mahmud Jega At the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984, there were hundreds of photographers in the stadium all

By Mahmud Jega Where did FCT Minister Nyesom Wike get his idea of a political Rainbow Coalition, which he has

By Mahmud Jega This weekend was Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp’s [NSCDC] worst hour since the Oga at the

By Mahmud Jega There is a popular song regularly played on Radio Kaduna in the mid-1970s, when we were school

By Mahmud Jega The 2027 general and presidential election campaign season kicked off in earnest last week, not with great

By Mahmud Jega The discovery by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission [ICPC] last week of a

By Mahmud Jega This weekend was the first time in Nigeria’s history that ability to dance is suspected to have

By Mahmud Jega At the weekend, I joined millions of Nigerians in expressing surprise, awe, amazement, puzzle, incredulity, shock and

By Mahmud Jega The blistering exchange last week between the Presidency and the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria and in

By Mahmud Jega One would have thought that while the sizzling scandal over the “ghost”’ Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council

By Mahmud Jega Renomination of Vice President Kashim Shettima as President Bola Tinubu’s running mate for the 2027 presidential election

By Mahmud Jega Three top security agencies, Nigeria Police, Department of State Service [DSS] and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

By Mahmud Jega Unlike the situation twelve years ago when the issue of state police divided Nigeria Governors Forum right

By Mahmud Jega From the political scene, to the judicial chambers, to the criminal arena, to social media space and

By Mahmud Jega In the very weekend in which the insecurity situation in the country was further magnified by the

By Mahmud Jega At the end of the parties’ primary election season last month, we have an estimated sixteen candidates

By Mahmud Jega In answer to an interviewer’s question, Archbishop Desmond Tutu [1931-2021] once said, “Of course faith is a

By Mahmud Jega Tell them I am coming! Haba! You mean I cannot get some rest, even after I have

By Mahmud Jega I was startled at the weekend to see the announcement by retired Air Marshal Saddique Baba Abubakar,

By Mahmud Jega Minister of Education Dr. Tunji Alausa’s announcement last Wednesday, that the federal government has approved a policy

By Mahmud Jega In 1976, when the peanut farmer and former Georgia State Governor Jimmy Carter was running as a

by Mahmud Jega Bauchi State Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, Kauran Bauchi, best known for combative politics and acerbic rhetoric, suddenly

By Mahmud Jega Imagine the political space in Nigeria to be the Persian Gulf, 989 kilometres long and 336 kms

BY Mahmud Jega There was a lot of colour at weekend’s 8th national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress,

by Mahmud Jega United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and your partners, this 2026 World Happiness Report which you published

The latter-day, afterthought, logic-challenged, enforcement-bereft amendment to the Electoral Act 2026 passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday last