Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, holds a doctorate degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Nigerian Defence Academy, where his thesis examined media reportage of farmer-herder conflicts and the intersection with national security in Nigeria. He holds a Master’s degree in political science from the Bayero University, Kano, and a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from the same university, during which he earned a university scholarship every session for being top of the class.

He won the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) award as the best graduating student in mass communication. He has also studied at the University of Lagos; Die Hochschule Der Gewerkshaften in Germany; the school of communication at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, USA; and the Lagos Business School.

Modibbo Kawu has decades of experience in the media: radio, television, print, and broadcast regulation. He was recruited by Radio Nigeria and worked as a studio manager, an announcer, presenter, deejay, and news reader, including reading news on the national network service of Radio Nigeria, as well as on the African Independent Television (AIT). He was part of the team of experts that helped to establish the Jigawa State Television.

In a very distinguished reporting career, Modibbo Kawu was one of the first Nigerian journalists to report from the war in the Darfur region of Sudan. He observed the African Union military deployment in El-Fasher, North Darfur, and conducted route assessment patrols with the Nigerian battalion (NIGBATT) in Nyala in South Darfur. He was the only Nigerian journalist reporting from the funeral of Dr. John Garang in South Sudan.

He travelled with the POLISARIO FRONT to report on the protracted war in Western Sahara. He led a delegation of Nigerian editors to report on the civil war in the Ivory Coast, reporting from the government side in Abidjan and Yamousoukro and the rebel side in Bouake, in the North. He was also in Eritrea to study the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflicts.

He was a pioneer member of the staff of Radio Kwara, Ilorin. He was pioneer GM of KWTV; pioneer editor of Daily Trust newspaper; pioneer chairman of the editorial board of Blueprint newspaper; he wrote weekly columns for the two newspapers, and was a syndicated columnist for Vanguard newspaper.

He similarly reported for Radio France International and the BBC World Service. Dr. Modibbo Kawu was also a former director general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). He was a distinguished delegate at the 2014 National Conference, representing the Nigerian Guild of Editors, and he is a Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (FNGE).

Dr. Modibbo Kawu is the Chairman/CEO of Word, Sound & Vision (Multimedia) Limited, the Abuja-based company that works in media, research, and consultancy.