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Three Big Take-aways From An African Family Trip to Namibia, Botswana, Cape Town and Addis Ababa

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Black lives, Botswana Democratic Party, Christianity in Ethiopia, Decolonisation, Ethiopian sense of independence, Ethiopia’s imperial grandeur, High African entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, Namibia, Oromia, Rural Botswana, The Adwa Victory Memorial, Tswana ethnicityNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura A few days ago, we talked about the uniqueness of each of the four countries we visited and the amazing people that made our tour enjoyable. We want to conclude these refle... Read more

Remembering Dr. Bene Madunagu

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'linguistic turn', Biological Sciences, Dr Bene Madunagu, Dr. Eddie Madunagu, Ferdinand de Saussure, Socialist feminism, University of Calabar, WINNo CommentsViews:

That Dr. Bene Madunagu has breathed her last has been formally announced. Death brings a lot to a close for most human beings. It does for Dr. Bene but it will take generations before she fi... Read more

The NPSA Celebrates Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, the Scholar-Diplomat and Ilorin Prince at 80

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 1999-2005, Chief Simon Adebo, DG – NIIA, First UN Under-SG and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Savannah Centre, UN Anti-apartheid Committee, WambaiNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu On 24th of this month (November, 2024), Prof. Gambari turned 80 years, having been born in Ilorin in 1944. Like I said in my earlier tributes to our senior Professors, P... Read more

Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Amb Tunji Olagunju, Group Captain Salawudeen Olatinwo, IBB, NPSA, NSIA, Prof Adele Junaid, Prof Omo Omoruyi, UNIBENNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Hardly can one appreciate this tribute without bringing General Ibrahim Babangida administration into the centre of addressing its concerns. To start with, there are many... Read more

Prof Sam Oyovbaire and the Location of the Obasanjo Signifier

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, Alison Ayida, Asian Tigers, Dr Bene Madunagu, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, General Yakubu Gowon, IMF/World Bank, OBASANJO, Signifier, State collapse, State InterventionismNo CommentsViews:

It bears repeating that Intervention is still on a publishing holiday and will only make one concession or the other once a while till further notice. It is therefore still not receiving mat... Read more

Scanning Ibrahim Muazzam’s Explosive Survey of the Literature on Ethnic Profiling in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Awo, Colonialism, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, North-South dichotomy, Western metaphysics, Yoruba, Zik, ‘Dissidence International Relations’, ‘MetaBosnia’No CommentsViews:

Title: Ethnic Profiling and the Challenges of Inclusion in Nigeria: A Survey of the Literature Author: Ibrahim Muazzam Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Pages: 139 The tyr... Read more

Intervention is Here to Stay

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Discursive power, Holidays, Intervention, Re-making, Social collapseNo CommentsViews:

Many thanks to all yee who have complained or expressed worry that no new postings have appeared on Intervention in the past few weeks. May we, however, categorically inform that the platfor... Read more

How Lanre Arogundade Broke Coconut With His Head As NANS Leader in the 1980s

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Abagbedi', 'Ákowe', December 1983 coup, Dodan Barracks, Ijebu - Jesha, IMF loan, International Press Centre, Memory, NANS, Obafemi Awolowo University, TraumaNo CommentsViews:

State repression of activists of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Nigeria in the 1980s is nothing comparable to 1994 genocide in Rwanda, for example but, like... Read more

10th NASS’s Critical Constitutional Conversation in Kano

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 1999 Constitution, Chapter Two, Federalism, Gender equity, Kano, NASS, Rotation, State police, The economyNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The September 27th – 28th Retreat of the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution has come and gone. But it so fulfils the wisdom about a nation being an eve... Read more

Strategising on Instrumentalising Social Protection to Save West Africa From Climate Change at the OTUWA-DTDA’s Abuja Regional Workshop

Posted By: adminon: October 09, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Climate colonialism, DTDA, Frederick Chiluba, IPCC, Just transition, Kenneth Kaunda, Michael Imoudu, OTUWA, Registrar of Trade Unions, Sekou Toure, Siaka Stevens, Silva de Lula, Social protection, ‘Polluters pay’ principleNo CommentsViews:

How might a severely climate change threatened continent guarantee the social protection that can make the energy transition from fossil fuel a just transition in the face of unspeakable soc... Read more