Flashback | Intervention

A Hilarious Touch to Elder Jonah David Jang @ 80

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Benue State, Power, Retired military, ‘Maigani’No CommentsViews:

Prof Chris Kwaja, a regular name around Intervention, has penned a tribute to Senator Jonah David Jang at 80. It is a welcome piece but Kwaja took only the serious side of the becoming, ther... Read more

Marxists at War As Branko Milanovic Replies Alex Callinicos On ‘The Prophet Unarmed’

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Bolshevism, Italian Communist Party, Leninism, Main Currents of Marxism, Mao, Stalinism, Trotskyism, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

It is just not clear why some two Marxists spread across both sides of the Atlantic chose a Sunday when all Heaven minded souls were supposed to be in Church to go to war over an old review... Read more

Current Faces to the Nigerian Judicial Establishment

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Call to Bar, CJN, Life Bencher, SANNo CommentsViews:

The Call to Bar ceremony for the Nigerian Law School for 2026 has come and gone but not some of the pictures that gives us an insight to the faces in the judicial establishment in Nigeria to... Read more

Still from the Turbanning of Garkuwan Kano

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Anti-imperialism, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Garkuwan Kano, Imoudu Institute, NANSNo CommentsViews:

The turbanning of former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, A B Mahmoud, as Garkuwan Kano has come and gone but not all the pictures from the event. Apart from pictures of the known... Read more

Presidential System Complicates Democracy – Prof Sam Egwu

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2026In: FlashbackTags: CDD-WA, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, INEC, Presidential system, Prof Abubakar MomohNo CommentsViews:

For over four hours on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026, the world stood still for two late Nigerian activists – Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem and Abubakar Momoh – in an annual ritual of homage to their ide... Read more

Reading General Gowon’s Autobiography With Bongos Ikwue’s Lenses

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Bongos Ikwue, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Humanitarian Imperialism, Igbos, Prof Adele Junaid, Super 5, Yorubas, ‘Just War’ theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It has always been clear that General Gowon would provoke standpoint responses should he ever choose to write his memoir. The obviously deliberate delay in releasing the auto... 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

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