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 Editors Chairman and Distinguished Delegates, Nigeria matters. We are the only African country with all attributes to become a
Asalamu Alaikum, Your Excellency. Happy 59th birthday. On a day like this, you will receive several messages from people from all walks of life. Some would be sourced from official relationships, and
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@yahoo.com It was Issa Aremu’s tribute which alerted me
On Monday, June 16th, 2025, I drove the 58 kilometers from Abuja
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On Monday night, I held a dinner meeting in Abuja with a visiting American delegation. These
At the beginning of this month, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno, led a five-member delegation of
NIGERIA’S greatest musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, called it “Government Magic”; that is the practiced tradition in government
The Borno elders demanding a state of emergency because of Boko Haram are PDP members. Perpetually
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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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Last week, Daily Trust carried Alhaji Idi Farouk’s rejoinder to the piece I wrote on Chief
Last week, the Program Manager of the United Nations Habitat in Nigeria, Professor Johnson Bade, revealed
The announcement last week by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that it has registered 22
Early this week, President Obasanio was in Lome, Togo to hold a meeting with other West
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Oh, dear. We have lost Kola Atolagbe, gentleman, broadcaster, and consummate professional. Mister Kola Atolagbe
Tuesday, November 4th, 2025. On this our last day in Jeddah, the Red Sea Saudi Arabian
BEING TEXT OF CONTRIBUTION BY IS’HAQ MODIBBO KAWU, Ph.D.; FNGE. TO AFROBEAT REBELLION: FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI.
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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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“In order to make economic and political occupation complete and effective, the coloniser tried also to control the cultural environment – education, religion, language, literature, songs and dance, every form of expressive practices – hoping in this way to control a people
