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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OBASANJO is quite personable- much of the time-and…like most rulers, he desperately wanted to be accepted as
LAST weekend Sokoto hosted the cream of Nigerian political society. They were in the ‘Seat of
During the Second Republic, 1979-1983, the popular television program, MASQURADE, in obvious dig at the excesses
FORMER President, General Olusegun Obasanjo, was obviously caught up in a moment of effusiveness last weekend,
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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
The news broke last week that a committee of the National Judicial Council (NJC), headed by
It is becoming increasingly likely that a new crisis will burst forth soon between the executive
Last week, Daily Trust carried Alhaji Idi Farouk’s rejoinder to the piece I wrote on Chief
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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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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
