Two different sentences in Intervention’s reporting of the passage of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi, ex-Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, have come under attack from critical rea... Read more
“To be honest, you cannot help but promote Buhari. I mean he cried a few years ago for Nigeria. Now Reverend Fathers are crying…… Sincerely speaking, for a retired soldier... Read more
The gatekeepers in the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency would not let it pass that President Buhari’s eight years in power has not been momentous. There is nothing new in that because they... Read more
Sokoto in Nigeria is a city, a provincial capital or the capital of an empire that once existed, depending on which one each reader takes. This Sokoto does not have the affluence of Kano or... Read more
It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more
Having watched every World Cup tournament since 1970. Dr. Bangura can posit his never being as convinced as he is now after watching the Qatar World Cup that the domination of European and S... Read more
“What shocked me was not the rumour, because anyone can start a rumour. What really shocked me – were the PhD holders, Professors, the Nigerian intelligentsia, Bishops and Pastor... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA The founding moment of the Obasanjo/Atiku love-hate relationship would be difficult to pinpoint immediately but early 1999 remains the turning point in that now conflictual i... Read more
At a time of great need for conceptual innovation in relation to the project of remaking Nigeria, it is intriguing that a Chom Bagu, aka ‘General’ is missing from the situation r... Read more
It is simply irresistible not to invoke the wisecrack of the Tiv soloist who defined Radio Kaduna in the immediate post-independence days with the song about if the dead could attend his or... Read more
