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The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s ‘Petals of Blood’ and ‘Devil on the Cross’

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Africa, Arts and literature, Capitalists, Devil, Imperialism, Kenya, Liberation, Matatu, Mau Mau, Students, WorkersNo CommentsViews:

It is still the season of tributes to leading African writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, all of which he is no more in a position to read and (dis)agree with. Below is, however, the piece that was pu... Read more

Remembering Prof Jubril Aminu

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2025In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, Mallam Aminu Kano, Medical Science, NUC, Prof Daniel Saror, Prof Kyari Tijani, Prof Nur Alkali, Prof. Ahmadu Jalingo, University of Ibadan, University of MaiduguriNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The news is all over the place already that Prof Jubril Aminu, ex-Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC); ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of M... Read more

NPSA Scores Democracy in Nigeria Below Pass mark

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: DEMOCRACY, Developmental politics, Elections, National independence, NPSA, Political parties, Public fundsNo CommentsViews:

The verdicts are turning in Ahead of the 26th anniversary of democracy in Nigeria since 1999. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), for instance, has withheld a pass mark for de... Read more

Time to Say A Big ‘Thank You’ to Everyone

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: LifeworldTags: 14th Day burial rite, Daily Times, Distinction, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, Ojongo, olusegun Obasanjo, Patrick Dele ColeNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Readers of Intervention would have to bear yet another story on my mother, the late Ikponya Abba, aka Ojongo whose death and burial has already received bountiful reporting o... Read more

Africa Needs a Coordinated Approach to Internationalisation

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Agenda 2063, Ajayi Crowther University, Continental Education Strategy for Africa, DRC, Europe, Internationalisation, North America, Open universities, Tanzania, UNISA, University of Kigali, University of the WitwatersrandNo CommentsViews:

With as much as about USD$17,000 visa deposit requirement by some African countries, the ‘mission impossible’ alarm was bound to be heard sooner than later about internationalis... Read more

A Dialectical-Materialist Perspective on the Minorities Question in Nigeria and National Development

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Marxism, Middle – Belt, Minorities, Nationalities, Niger Delta, Northern region, Stalin, Willinks CommissionNo CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki ‎”Thus, a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people”, J. V. Stalin The making of a community of people into a nation is... Read more

Keeping Chris Kwaja’s Small Scale Philanthropy in View

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Acrimony, Annual Schools Essay competition, Boys, Development, Girls, Governor Caleb Mutfwang, Philanthropy, Plateau StateNo CommentsViews:

Philanthropy has a way of resonating because, without it, life would be too hard for those whom development has left behind across the world. It is on this count that any whiff of philanthro... Read more

D S Ibrahim Collapses Identity Fault Lines As Christians, Muslims, Others Converge @ His Burial in Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Christians, Danlami Samuel, Kano, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Muslims, Old North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Identity boundaries and fault lines collapsed temporarily earlier today as Nigeria lowered a barrier breaking elder. Christians, Muslims and others travelled to bear witness to the burial of... Read more

The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more

The Benue Fruit Abundance Scandal

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Food Basket of the Nation', Agrarian transformation, Aper Aku, Fruits, George Akume, Hyacinth Alia, J. S Tarka, Stephen LawaniNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is simply impossible to be in Benue State for a whole week as I was recently without feeling embarrassed that a state awash with diverse quality fruits on that scale ever... Read more