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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

The Nigerian political landscape is rarely quiet, but as March 2026 unfolds, the tremors within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)