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 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
Asalamu Alaikum, Your Excellency. Happy 59th birthday. On a day like this,
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IT didn’t take a long time for me to accept to participate in the Third
The Nigerian security forces scored a major victory against the Boko Haram insurgency in the past two
My name is Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, FNGE, representing the Nigerian Guild of Editors Chairman and Distinguished
I returned to Nigeria on Monday facing the daunting task of trying to read the pile
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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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Since the assumption of power in May 1999, President Obasanjo has left nobody in doubt his
The media reported at the weekend that President Obasanjo expressed disagreement with the open political space
I spent the second half of last week, from Thursday evening, in Lagos. I was attending
Last week, the Program Manager of the United Nations Habitat in Nigeria, Professor Johnson Bade, revealed
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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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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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My earliest encounter with Chinua Achebe was not the usual “suspect”; his trailblazing work, Things Fall Apart. That came a bit later. I had my earliest encounter with Africa’s greatest writer, with Chike And The River. It was set in Onitsha, against the backdrop of
