Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@gmail.com I returned to Kaduna yesterday evening to the story of the passing of the venerable Dr. Christopher Kolade at the age of 93. He lived a very long
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
On Monday, June 16th, 2025, I drove the 58 kilometers from Abuja
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LAST week, there were leaks in the media, that indirect negotiations had commenced between the
One of the more unfortunate aspects of the praxis of the Northern elite: bureaucratic, economic or
FOR Malam Abba Kyari, former MD of UBA, two institutions are central to the consolidation of
I don’t envy Sule Lamido, the governor of Jigawa State. This is because last weekend he
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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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Rather like a shell-shocked soldier just recovering use of his faculties, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was
The media reported at the weekend that President Obasanjo expressed disagreement with the open political space
When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for
Last week, the long-awaited, Egyptian-brokered, prisoner exchange, between Israel and the Palestinians finally took place, broadcast
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025. On this our last day in Jeddah, the Red Sea Saudi Arabian
BEING TEXT OF CONTRIBUTION BY IS’HAQ MODIBBO KAWU, Ph.D.; FNGE. TO AFROBEAT REBELLION: FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI.
On Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025, I received a very short message from Mrs. Abiola Aderibigbe, daughter-in-law
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I have been fascinated by writing about people, places and events for decades; and I have therefore written about, commented on, and analysed, the African Culture, condition, as well as the international situation, at several levels.
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On Monday night, the BBC’s NEWSHOUR programme, reported the passing of the Uruguayan leftwing writer, Eduardo Galeano 74, and the German writer, poet and Nobel Laureate, Gunter Grass, 87. And just as I made up my mind to write a tribute to
