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
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“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
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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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THIS week, President Goodluck Jonathan held a meeting with Nigerian security chiefs and governors of the
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A few weeks ago, I sent a text to General SarkinYaki Bello, the Coordinator of Counter-Terrorism
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“How many decisions-including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people-are made by men
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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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I spent the second half of last week, from Thursday evening, in Lagos. I was attending
The commencement of civilian government in our country, with the investiture of the Obasanjo Presidency in
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When the United States and Israel launched their illegal attack on Iran on February 28th,
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Do people think once they say, “We believe”, that they will be left without being tested?
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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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On Monday night, the BBC’s NEWSHOUR programme, reported the passing of the Uruguayan leftwing writer, Eduardo Galeano 74, and the German writer, poet and Nobel Laureate, Gunter Grass, 87. And just as I made up my mind to write a tribute to