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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ONE of the most abiding imageries out of Nigeria in the past week, is that of
AGAINST the backdrop of the second anniversary of the abduction of the over 200 Chibok School girls
ADDRESSING a conference of the (rather innocuous, pardon my ignorance) Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies in Lagos,
A few weeks ago, I sent a text to General SarkinYaki Bello, the Coordinator of Counter-Terrorism
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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
Illustrative of the sorry pass we have come to in Nigeria today is the tot making
Last week was definitely a tragic week in Nigeria. Over a hundred lives were lost Kaduna
Last week, the long-awaited, Egyptian-brokered, prisoner exchange, between Israel and the Palestinians finally took place, broadcast
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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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In 1988, I was involved in many art events around Nigeria during which I interviewed some of Nigeria’s leading writers, sculptors, poets and so on. It was in the course of that year, that I made a half hour feature on the
