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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Obiageli Ezekwesili (often addressed as ‘Doctor’, but is she a doctorate degree holder really?), is one
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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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It was Langton Hughes the great African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that
Recently, the chairman of the Senate Committee on information, Senator Sanusi Dagash alerted Nigerians to the
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Last week, the long-awaited, Egyptian-brokered, prisoner exchange, between Israel and the Palestinians finally took place, broadcast
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When the news broke of the passing of Biodun Jeyifo (BJ), one of the first persons
“To be an enemy of the U.S. is dangerous, but to be a friend
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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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I woke up today to discover that YouTube had posted a 1988 concert in Germany, by Harry Belafonte. Of course, the live recording opened with his eternally-beloved song, Day-o! I sang along, and watched as he performed with the backup singers, and
