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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When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for
The past three weeks have been some of the most difficult for the frames of perception
Expectedly, members of the ruling elite in our country will be back-slapping with vigour this week;
Towards the end of our editorial planning meeting last Tuesday, we did a reflection on some
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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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Recently, the chairman of the Senate Committee on information, Senator Sanusi Dagash alerted Nigerians to the
It was Karl Marx who once wrote that history repeats itself twice: The first time a
The Washington Post recently revealed that American President, George W. Bush has authorized the Central Intelligence
The 2011 ranking of the top 100 African universities was recently posted on the internet. From
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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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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
