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 to Gwagwalada. My mission was to secure a new Nigerian passport. Those who follow African liberation struggles would have remembered
It could not hae been a co-incidence that the report of the Justice Uwais Committee on Electoral Reform was released on the eve of the Supreme Court judgment on the 2007 General
At the heart of my recent visit to Eritrea, was the interview
A week can be a pretty long time in politics. Last week,
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A very important background for the understanding of General Olusegun Obasanjo, the outgoing lame duck despot
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THE NATION newspaper’s HARDBALL of Tuesday, October 14, 2014, mischievously described it as the “BEGGARS’ ORCHESTRA”.
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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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The German Ambassador in Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, recently expressed ‘regret’ on behalf of his country, for
The major plank of Obasanjo’s economic policies since 1999, is the privatisation policy that was not
An observer from some distant land might be forgiven If he, in trying to make sense
Rather like a shell-shocked soldier just recovering use of his faculties, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was
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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
I woke up on Thursday, May 29th, 2025, to a tribute to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, written
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DIDN’T remember to tell you yesterday, but I’ve just finished reading Achebe’s THERE WAS A COUNTRY. I’m amazed at his cavalier attitude to basic facts of history and the strident tone of victimhood along with the inability to see anything wrong with Biafra. Not
