Bookspace Archives - Intervention

History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Abuja, Domestic workers, History, Hit and run capitalism, LAGOS, NANS, Northwest, PYMN, Rosa Luxemburg FoundationNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja History can get more and more complicated, especially when it is the history of the now basically dead National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). What the history shou... Read more

At Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh’s Recent Presentation of ‘Power Politics in International Trade Law’ in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: March 31, 2025In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, Baze University - Abuja, Economic Partnership Agreements, International trade law, Power, UCT, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

As slippery as the concept of power in international relations, it remains a concept of huge attraction. Law lecturer, Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh, seems persuaded on this in writing Asymmetric Powe... Read more

‘Washing’ Kwaja’s Professorship

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Frame game, Modibbo Adama University, Reality, UNIJOS, ‘Washing’No CommentsViews:

Nigeria has just increased her stock of the professoriate by one. He is Chris Kwaja, most likely the newest professor in town. That’s not the news anymore as Intervention learnt reliab... Read more

Locating Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine’s Impending Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Africa, DEMOCRACY, Disorder, Empiricism, Inaugural Lecture, LASU, NANS, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer news that Lagos State University (LASU)’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine is to deliver the university’s 103rd Inaugural Lecture February 25th, 2025. The media – soc... Read more

Identity, Authoritarianism and Democracy: An Introduction to Jibrin Ibrahim’s Scholarly Works on Politics in Nigeria

In this piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura, a co-editor of a book on selected works of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim provides a foretaste of the broth. Those who have had the privilege of reading this text elsew... 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

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

African Holocaust, a Book Review

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2024In: BookspaceTags: African holocaust, Christian doctrines, Christianity, Christion Missionary Society, Islam, Kampala Technical Institute, Kingdom of Buganda, Paganism, Ugandan Catholic martyrsNo CommentsViews:

Book Title: African Holocaust: The Story of Uganda Martyrs Author: John Francis Faupel Publishers: Paulines Publications West Africa Date of Publication: 2024 (Second Revised Edition) Pag... Read more

Blowback As JAMB Registrar Hits @ Unbundling of Mass Communications in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 16, 2024In: BookspaceTags: FME, Mass Communications, Methodology, Prof Ishaq Oloyode, Specialisation, UnderdevelopmentNo CommentsViews:

The unbundling of Mass Communications in 2020 by the National Universities Commission, (NUC) into seven (7) different disciplines viz Media & Journalism Studies, Public Relations, Adver... Read more

Updated: The Idoma Turn to the Biographical in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'M T African Pride', Admiral Francis Agbiti, Cde John Odah, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Sam Mbakwe, Idoma Native Authority, Igumale, Madonna Hospital - Makurdi, Okpoga, Sir Ahmadu Bello, St Gregory College, The ChurchNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA For a minority ethnic group with the kind of empirical presence that Idoma elements have had in post-independence Nigeria, there is no risk in saying that the nationality has... Read more