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 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
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@gmail.com I returned to Kaduna yesterday evening to the
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ON Monday this week, President Muhammadu Buhari received the report of the Environmental Audit on the
Nigeria’s sundry ‘tribes’ of agitators, fromcivilsociety activists through to gerontocratic “have-beens” and ethnic entrepreneurs, finally scored a
JUST by the huge margin of victory alone, and the fact that even the dinosaur could
I THINK Femi Falana’s well-argued piece on the on-going hysteria in the face of the forced
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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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The media reported at the weekend that President Obasanjo expressed disagreement with the open political space
The news broke out early this week that representatives of the government of Sudan and the
As a young teenager, just fresh from secondary school, I went to work in Nigerian broadcasting
The German Ambassador in Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, recently expressed ‘regret’ on behalf of his country, for
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For a first time visitor to Guangzhou, China (the last time that I was in this
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?
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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
