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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JUST by the huge margin of victory alone, and the fact that even the dinosaur could
When I read the comments of many perplexed Nigerians who queried President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua for
LAST Tuesday, Goodluck Jonathan hosted the British PrimeMinister, David Cameron in Lagos. I was attending a
LAST week, I drew attention to the elongation agenda of Jonathan Goodluck’s tenure and the quid
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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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At the heart of my recent visit to Eritrea, was the interview session that I had
The 2011 ranking of the top 100 African universities was recently posted on the internet. From
The commencement of civilian government in our country, with the investiture of the Obasanjo Presidency in
Since the assumption of power in May 1999, President Obasanjo has left nobody in doubt his
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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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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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My earliest encounter with Chinua Achebe was not the usual “suspect”; his trailblazing work, Things Fall Apart. That came a bit later. I had my earliest encounter with Africa’s greatest writer, with Chike And The River. It was set in Onitsha, against the backdrop of
