When the United States and Israel launched their illegal attack on Iran on February 28th, 2026, many assumptions underlined what amounted to a frightening blitzkrieg. The Israeli Prime Minister, the war
In the early hours of Wednesday, February 4th, 2026, news broke of the tragic killings of dozens of people in the outlying communities of Woro and Nuku in the Kaiama Local Government
“To be an enemy of the U.S. is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal -Dr. Henry Kissinger. In recent days, Nigerian media platforms have been filled with
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@gmail.com I returned to Kaduna yesterday evening to the
My name is Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, FNGE, representing the Nigerian Guild of
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I SPOKE with Lai Mohammed, spokesperson of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), on Monday. My
Recently, the video of hundreds of slaughtered cattle, was making the rounds, on various social media
“In order to make economic and political occupation complete and effective, the coloniser tried also to
Last week, the media reported that Patience, President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife, gave Governor Rotimi Amaechi a
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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 announcement last week by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it has registered 22
The major plank of Obasanjo’s economic policies since 1999, is the privatisation policy that was not
There is an air of palpable tension hanging over the international community in respect of the
When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for
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When the United States and Israel launched their illegal attack on Iran on February 28th,
Do people think once they say, “We believe”, that they will be left without being tested?
When the news broke of the passing of Biodun Jeyifo (BJ), one of the first persons
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When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for passing up yer another excellent opportunity to engage with other influential world leaders at the United Nations last week in the hope of getting us out
