Flashback Archives - Intervention

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

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

Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, BMMC, Captain Ibrahim Traore, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), FASS, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of Abuja, YBU1 CommentViews:

Switzerland based, Sierra Leone born Dr Yusuf Bangura, a former Political Science lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria does not like to hold grudges but neither does he want to whitewa... Read more