The flight from Abuja to the city of Ahmedabad, capital of the Indian State of Gujirat, took 9hrs and 51 minutes. We flew over Cameroon, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia and
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
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In the next two days, Nigerians will be going through one of the most important routines
“If governors will seek to outsmart each other and manipulate a process that is fairly simple
Olusegun Adeniyi, Presidential Aviser on Media, was an august visitor in my house on Sallah day.
I THINK one of the most defining images of recent times, was the picture of President
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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 2011 ranking of the top 100 African universities was recently posted on the internet. From
Is’haq Modibbo Kawu kawumodibbo@gmail.com I returned to Kaduna yesterday evening to the story of the passing
The media reported at the weekend that President Obasanjo expressed disagreement with the open political space
The news broke last week that a committee of the National Judicial Council (NJC), headed by
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When the ruling APC submitted Vice President Kashim Shettima’s form as the running mate to President
For a first time visitor to Guangzhou, China (the last time that I was in this
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DESERT life is very grey, drab and pitiless. The days and nights can be very cold an d punishingly windy. This is the world that humans have habituated for aeons. The desert has been mastered by its dwellers; they humanized it and
