By ABBA MAHMOOD — For the first time since independence, the Igbo of the south-east voted themselves out of the centre. Regardless...
We didn’t know post-apartheid South Africa would be like this. If anyone had foretold, 30 years ago, that black South Africans would...
Time is running out for Muhammadu Buhari and his administration to achieve something tangible. Had he hit the ground running, just as...
By ABBA MAHMOOD — General Murtala Ramat Muhammed was the nearest we’ve ever had as a revolutionary leader in Nigeria. He is,...
I have intermittently drawn the attention of the Nigerian authorities to the plight of the original inhabitants of the area known as...
By ABBA MAHMOOD — After the Second World War, the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
After Julius Caesar’s assassination in a palace coup, in 44BC, the coup plotters led by Caesar’s close friend Brutus had to mount...
By ABBA MAHMOOD – Perhaps no other issue has shown the glaring decline of Nigeria’s foreign policy and reduced international prestige than...
After reading that former President Olusegun Obasanjo has canvassed the emergence of the next Nigerian president from the south-east geopolitical zone, I...
Some of my most trusted friends are Hausa-Fulani Muslims. Though I’m not a Fulani, Hausa or Muslim, I do understand and speak...