Flashback Archives - Intervention

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

As Chief Dan Agbese Makes His Way Back to God

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Agila, Mass Communications, The Nigeria Standard, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

Intervention did not think much of when his column no longer appeared and he was not in the news anywhere too. It should have struck that something was probably wrong. It didn’t because Chie... Read more

The mystery of U Thant and the 1965-67 Nobel Peace Prize

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Cuban Missile Crisis, Nobel Peace Prize Committee, North Vietnam, Ralph Bunche, The Norwegian government, U.N Secretary-General U Thant, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Thant Myint-U This LinkedIn piece may not be the bombshell it is for the bit about how the Nobel establishment pulled the carpet from under then UN Sec-Gen – U Thant’s feet on the Nobel P... Read more

African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

How Prof Okello Oculi Unsuccessfully Persuaded Dr. Walter Rodney From Returning to Guyana

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2025In: FlashbackTags: AU headquarters, Bala Usman, Patrick Wilmot, Prof. Bayo Olukoshi, Strategic Studies, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Gani Yoroms Sometimes in March 2024 or there about, Prof Okello Oculi found himself in Bingham University, Karu where he was asking how prepared the university was in terms of establ... Read more

On a Condolence Visit to Prof Okello Oculi’s Family, Nigerian Civil Society Gives Firm Guarantee of Preserving His Legacy

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Fanon, FASS, Marx, McCarthyism, Mock-OAU Summit, NTA, Pan-Africanism, SAPNo CommentsViews:

There is now a firm guarantee that what most occupied the late former Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic, Prof Okello Oculi would be preserved. The guarantee is the highlight of a condo... Read more

Could This Be Taken as Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s Oracular Testament to Nigerians?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Austria, Continental Europe, Crimea, Germany, India, Indias, Niger Delta, UK, Ukraine, USSR, ‘Mistake of 1914’No CommentsViews:

Intervention might not have been done with Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s demise but, for now, it draws the curtain with what might be the Oracle’s most direct message to Nigerians on nation bui... Read more

What a Piercing Reminder of WIN!

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ASUU, Feminism, Gender, NANS, NCWS, NLC, WINNo CommentsViews:

As invasive as the social media platforms, so also is it the case that they also do come along with great reminders. This book cover is one of such. It is a picture that will bring joy as we... Read more

Dr. Kole Shettima’s Honorary DSc Moment @ Federal University, Kashere

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2025In: FlashbackTags: (OON, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Alhaji (Dr.) Bashir Albishir Bukar Machinama, Civil society, DSc, L’ONN), MacArthur Foundation, Rashidi dattijo, University of Maiduguri, University of Toronto, Zanna Yuroma of Machina EmirateNo CommentsViews:

Philanthropic capitalism got another symbolic endorsement in Nigeria at the weekend when Dr Kole Shettima of MacArthur Foundation was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by the Fede... Read more