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
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Last week, Alhaji Sule Lamido, veteran politician with roots in the old NEPU/PRP tradition, visited our
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“When he was asked Nigeria’s position on the United States African Command (AFRICOM) during the prediential
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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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Last week, the long-awaited, Egyptian-brokered, prisoner exchange, between Israel and the Palestinians finally took place, broadcast
Rather like a shell-shocked soldier just recovering use of his faculties, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was
Last week was definitely a tragic week in Nigeria. Over a hundred lives were lost Kaduna
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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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In 1988, Majek Fashek released the album, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, which contained the hit song, Send Down the Rain. It was a very big hit, in what would be a very rainy year in Nigeria! The radical lyrics were very much
