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Barely a month after an iroko in the African literary forest fell, a reference to Ngugi Wa Thiongo, there has been the fall of another iroko. He is Charles Nnolim, a foremost critic in Afric... Read more
In a major symbolic move, political scientists at Nigeria’s University of Jos have named an office after Prof Bonaventure Haruna. Prof Haruna died about three weeks ago. UNIJOS lecturers in... Read more
A set of civil society leaders took their turn to commiserate with the family of ex-Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammed Uwais. The civil society leaders joined others in the late Just... Read more
It is still the season of tributes to leading African writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, all of which he is no more in a position to read and (dis)agree with. Below is, however, the piece that was pu... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The news is all over the place already that Prof Jubril Aminu, ex-Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC); ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of M... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Readers of Intervention would have to bear yet another story on my mother, the late Ikponya Abba, aka Ojongo whose death and burial has already received bountiful reporting o... Read more
Identity boundaries and fault lines collapsed temporarily earlier today as Nigeria lowered a barrier breaking elder. Christians, Muslims and others travelled to bear witness to the burial of... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more