My name is Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, FNGE, representing the Nigerian Guild of Editors Chairman and Distinguished Delegates, Nigeria matters. We are the only African country with all attributes to become a
Asalamu Alaikum, Your Excellency. Happy 59th birthday. On a day like this, you will receive several messages from people from all walks of life. Some would be sourced from official relationships, and
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@yahoo.com It was Issa Aremu’s tribute which alerted me to the passing of the inimitable Okello Oculi. Similarly, I saw that Denja Yaqub had also posted a tribute from
On Monday, June 16th, 2025, I drove the 58 kilometers from Abuja
It could not hae been a co-incidence that the report of the
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Sometime in the month of June 1983, Vice President, Alex Ekuweme, during one of his campaign rallies, was reported as saying that the austerity measures his government clamped down on the country,
During the 1980s, I was very actively involved in the Nigerian trade union movement. I had been elected as the chairman of my local chapter of the Radio, Television and Theatre Workers’
During an international anti-apartheid conference in November 1988, Ike Nwachukwu, Nigeria’s External Affairs Minister, seized the opportunity of the august gathering, to remount the old hobby horse of Nigerian foreign policy- demands
Mankind is in a state of constant change. “The journalist’s task is to write about and, in a sense, promote changes, to prevent society from becoming ossified. Journalists should always test the
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Asalamu Alaikum, Your Excellency. Happy 59th birthday. On a day like this, you will receive several
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@yahoo.com It was Issa Aremu’s tribute which alerted me to the passing of
On Monday, June 16th, 2025, I drove the 58 kilometers from Abuja to Gwagwalada. My mission
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We lost Tony Allen, one of the greatest drummers in the history of popular music. His collaboration with Fela created Afrobeat. As has been said, they fused Nigerian sounds with jazz, to give the world Afrobeat. He provided the rhythmic wings on
