Lifeworld Archives - Intervention

Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2025In: LifeworldTags: African Literature, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Chinua Achebe, Literary criticism, Prof Claude Ake, University of PortharcourtNo CommentsViews:

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

UNIJOS Political Scientists Name Office After Late Prof Bonaventure Haruna

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Department of Political Science, Gamai Workers Association, Prof Aaron Gana, Prof Ali Mazrui, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, Prof Sonni Tyoden, Prof W O Alli, UNIJOS, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:

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

This Is My Story – Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Barewa College Zaria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Hajia Hajara, Hon. Justice Augustine Nnamani, Justice Atanda-Fatayi Williams, Justice Ayo Irikefe, Justice George Sodeinde Sowemimo, Justice Mamman Nasir, Justice Mohammed Bello, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Danley AlexanderNo CommentsViews:

The biographical is, in itself, a problematic approach to history but, here, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mohammed Lawal Uwais, unleashes the tiny fragments that constitute big history... Read more

Civil Society Leaders Commiserate With Maryam Uwais, Family of Late CJN

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2025In: LifeworldTags: CJN, Electoral Reform Committee, ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua, Isa Wali Foundation, Uwais ReportNo CommentsViews:

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

The Politics of Resistance and Liberation in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s ‘Petals of Blood’ and ‘Devil on the Cross’

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Africa, Arts and literature, Capitalists, Devil, Imperialism, Kenya, Liberation, Matatu, Mau Mau, Students, WorkersNo CommentsViews:

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

Remembering Prof Jubril Aminu

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2025In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, Mallam Aminu Kano, Medical Science, NUC, Prof Daniel Saror, Prof Kyari Tijani, Prof Nur Alkali, Prof. Ahmadu Jalingo, University of Ibadan, University of MaiduguriNo CommentsViews:

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

Time to Say A Big ‘Thank You’ to Everyone

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: LifeworldTags: 14th Day burial rite, Daily Times, Distinction, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, Ojongo, olusegun Obasanjo, Patrick Dele ColeNo CommentsViews:

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

D S Ibrahim Collapses Identity Fault Lines As Christians, Muslims, Others Converge @ His Burial in Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Christians, Danlami Samuel, Kano, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Muslims, Old North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

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

The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:

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

D. S. Ibrahim To Be Buried in Zaria Saturday, May 31st, 2025

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Anglican Communion, Dan Masanin, Danlami Samuel, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Old North, St Bartholomew Cathedral, Wusasa, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Mallam Danlami Samuel (D. S) Ibrahim, the Dan masanin Wusasa, is to be buried Saturday, May 31st, 2025. He died last Friday, May 23rd, 2025. Family announcement to that effect indicated that... Read more