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When Power Goes About Unclothed

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: International Relations, Power, ‘City on the Hill’No CommentsViews:

It is Happy New Year here at last. A New Year starts on January 1st, not 16th. There’s no debate about that but there’s no law that says everyone must celebrate it that day. It c... Read more

As Biodun Jeyifo Turns 80

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Japa', Generational transition, Knowledge production, Literature, Political Science, Survival, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:

Even as Nigeria turns more and more incomprehensible, an oasis is popping up somewhere in Lagos on January 5th, 2026. An oasis of ideas rather than the typical false events and celebration o... Read more

A Remarkably Prosperous 2026 Wish to All Intervention Readers

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2025, 2026, Intervention, North America, Ordeals, Publishing holidays, Survival, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

In a few hours hence, 2025 would have passed into history and been succeeded by 2026. There should be no greater joy than surviving 2025 although survival is so cheap a form or level of livi... Read more

When It Comes to Ajene Ukpabi Foundation, It Must Be ONE, United Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Adoka, Agabaidu Ogiri Oko, District Officer, Idoma Native Authority, IdomalandNo CommentsViews:

By Stephen Lawani It is absolutely a privilege to serve as the chairperson of this event. It is not obedience to protocol for me to say so but a statement borne by history. The history is t... Read more

Echoes of the Jos (Nigeria) Conversation on Fanon And the ‘African Condition’ at the Centenary of the Philosopher

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa’s knowledge production crisis, ASUU, CDD-West Africa, CITAD, CODESRIA, Fanon, Inter-generational conversation, Resurgent Pan-Africanism, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There were none of the overtly stormy sessions which define the 1983 ‘Marx and Africa’ Centenary with which the November 2025 Fanon Centenary compares in recent N... Read more

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nigeria, Its Partners Social Action and We the People Kick-start European Commission Co-funded INCLUDE NAIJA project

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: European Commission, Gender Studies, INCLUDE NAIJA Project, Nasarawa State University, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nigeria, University of Abuja, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:

Introduction In April 2025, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nigeria, and its partners Social Action and We the People kick-started a 3-year project (2025-2027), titled INCLUDE NAIJA — Inclusive De... Read more

In the Aftermath of US Airstrikes on Nigeria At Last

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Bipolarity, Multipolarity, Nigerian leaders of thought, Unipolarity, USNo CommentsViews:

There has been nothing like it before: a US airstrike on Nigeria for whatever reason(s). Predictably, the airstrike is the subject of contestation between those in approval and those against... Read more

A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Amb Tanko Suleiman, America, Apa State, Asia, Dr. Edwin Ogbu, French, G-8, Obama, OBASANJO, PR, Protocol, Queen Elizabeth 11, Russia, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more

Where Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, Ex-NLC Intellectual Stood On Why Nigeria is Collapsing into Anomie

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Botswana, Deregulation, IMF, Malaysia, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja What is clear is that 2025 is not done with us human beings, yet. Within a week, the tribe of radical voices has lost three of theirs: Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed, Adamu Baike a... Read more

End of An Era As Prof Adamu Baike Succumbs to Death @ 92

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Benue Plateau State, Death, Gen Sani Abacha, Identity, Kano, Nasarawa State University, National University of Lesotho, Otukpo, Prof Ishaya Audu, Sabon Gari - Kano, University of BeninNo CommentsViews:

When Intervention had to post a quick story on Comrade Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed on December 12th, 2025, it was assumed that it would be the last story on death for 2025. Actually, the idea o... Read more