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An Emergency Comes Up Short

Global UpfrontDec 1, 2025December 1, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega I shivered and trembled when I first heard that President Bola Tinubu had declared a security emergency all

Scramble For Next Year’s Pardon

Global UpfrontNov 3, 2025November 3, 20251

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega Following the release of the final list of presidential pardons for 2025, a scramble akin to the late

Ten Preps For One-party Rule

Global UpfrontOct 20, 2025October 20, 20250

With the Biblical-scale Exodus in recent weeks of governors, senators and other high-profile politicians from opposition parties to the ruling All Peoples Congress [APC], this

Full Pardon For Maryam Sanda?

Global UpfrontOct 13, 2025October 13, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega The opening paragraph of the State House statement on Saturday summarising the persons who benefited from presidential pardon

Only Pilots Need Blood Tests?

Global UpfrontSep 15, 2025September 15, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega Don’t be surprised this week if the number of passengers queueing up to board planes in Nigerian airports

Betrayal Is The Palm Oil…

Global UpfrontSep 8, 2025September 8, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega Chinua Achebe wrote that proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten. If he had updated

On Giving Inmates The Vote

Global UpfrontAug 11, 2025August 11, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega This story that I read in several newspapers and online media at the weekend, about ensuring that inmates

Four Jumbled Up Matters

Global UpfrontJun 30, 2025June 30, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega Early last week, it looked like the ongoing crisis in the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] was

Is All Democratic Alliance Any?

Global UpfrontJun 23, 2025June 23, 20250

View From The Gallery By Mahmud Jega For the second time in three years, an emergent name on the Nigerian political scene reminded me of

Lest Presidency Scores An Own Goal

Global UpfrontJun 18, 2025June 18, 20250

By Mahmud Jega I personally see some garbled political misspeak, some illogical logic, some historical inaccuracies and a lot of Maradona-style Hand of God goal