The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat, took 9hrs and 51 minutes. We flew over Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and
For a first time visitor to Guangzhou, China (the last time that I was in this city, was 13 years ago, in 2013), it’s probably the first place to visit. The area
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
“To be an enemy of the U.S. is dangerous, but
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I am writing these lines from Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea. Like the
LAST Monday, September 2nd, 2013, Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima clocked 47 years. I read that
The last time I wrote on this page was on March 24, 2005. The new-fangled anti
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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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November 11th, 2005. It was just supposed to be another day of the year. Last Friday,
The German Ambassador in Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, recently expressed ‘regret’ on behalf of his country, for
The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat,
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The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat,
When the ruling APC submitted Vice President Kashim Shettima’s form as the running mate to President
For a first time visitor to Guangzhou, China (the last time that I was in this
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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
