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 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
My name is Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, FNGE, representing the Nigerian Guild of
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Early this week, I sent an SMS text to Lar Mohammed, the spokesperson of the Action
On Monday night, I held a dinner meeting in Abuja with a visiting American delegation. These
2015. What a year in our lives! I have thought long and hard about this
A buildup of emotions can sometimes shift us away from the surety of cold rational analysis;
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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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An observer from some distant land might be forgiven If he, in trying to make sense
At the end of the Federal Executive Committee meeting two weeks ago, Information Minister Professor Jerry
The recent peace conference organized by the Presidency, which brought strange bedfellows together, from the cut
The German Ambassador in Namibia, Wolfgang Massing, recently expressed ‘regret’ on behalf of his country, for
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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?
When the news broke of the passing of Biodun Jeyifo (BJ), one of the first persons
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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
