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 to be a friend is fatal -Dr. Henry Kissinger. In recent days, Nigerian media platforms have been filled with
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
Asalamu Alaikum, Your Excellency. Happy 59th birthday. On a day like this,
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I spent last weekend in Kano. Apart from all die issues I was I trying to
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Olusegun Adeniyi, Presidential Adviser on Media, was an August visitor in my house on Sallah day.
Early this week, the National Security Council, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, and attended by
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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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As a young teenager, just fresh from secondary school, I went to work in Nigerian broadcasting
Since the assumption of power in May 1999, President Obasanjo has left nobody in doubt his
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“To be an enemy of the U.S. is dangerous, but to be a friend
In the early hours of Wednesday, February 4th, 2026, news broke of the tragic killings of
On the 1st of February, 1977, forty-nine years ago, at just 16 years and five
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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
