Flashback Archives - Intervention

Activists, Comrades, Colleagues Set to Remember Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed mni

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: BBU, Ethno-religious essentialism, NIPSS, Proletarian internationalism, Sokoto State, Violent capitalism, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:

A huge firework of remembering (and forgetting) is expected Wednesday April 29th, 2026 when friends, colleagues, comrades and witnesses gather in Abuja, Nigeria to honour Cde Abubakar Sokoto... Read more

Activists, Comrades, Colleagues Set to Remember Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed mni

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: BBU, Ethno-religious essentialism, NIPSS, Proletarian internationalism, Sokoto State, Violent capitalism, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:

A huge firework of remembering (and forgetting) is expected Wednesday April 29th, 2026 when friends, colleagues, comrades and witnesses gather in Abuja, Nigeria to honour Cde Abubakar Sokoto... Read more

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