Flashback Archives - Intervention

Martin Luther King (MLK) Now

Posted By: adminon: April 04, 2026In: FlashbackTags: African-American, Barack Obama, Ghettoisation, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Movement for Black Lives, NAACP, Rosa Parks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Washington, ‘Where Do We Go From Here’, ‘Why We Can’t Wait’No CommentsViews:

It is 58 years ago today (04/04/2026) since Martin Luther King, Jr was killed. Instead of diminishing, his standing and symbolism are rising because the racism he fought against is still the... Read more

Is It Possible It Was Nigeria That Happened to Justice Onnoghen in 2019?

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Atiku Abubakar, Banality, BUHARI REGIME, Chief Justice OnnoghenNo CommentsViews:

Is this not worth thinking about? How was it believable that he met Atiku Abubakar if he never did? Yes, everything in the world is about power but it is not everything that is about politic... Read more

Prof Toye Olorode Pays Tribute to Comrade Prof Biodun Jeyifo

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2026In: FlashbackTags: 'Ali Must Go', 'Great Ife mystique', ASUU, Dr. Mahmud Moddibo Tukur, Ife Dialogue Committee, NLC, NUNS, Segun Okeowo, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:

Published below is Prof Omotoye Olorode’s tribute to Prof BJ. Written from the Odoje Biodiversity Centre. Ogbómọṣọ in Oyo State of Nigeria’ where he currently is, this is not just a tr... Read more

A Reply to Critics of My Reference to MBF’s Middle Belt Politics

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Chief Solomon Lar, Cultural Middle Belt, Gowon, MBF, Senator Joseph TarkaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja I am sure there will still be more of it, but since the charge is the same each time and since my response is also the same, it might be time to put this out, partly in defer... Read more

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