Lifeworld Archives - Intervention

Sun Sets on Veteran Surgeon, Prof Peter Obekpa

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Alime', Hon Abutu Obekpa, Joe Akatu, Otubi, Otukpa, Rev. Cornelius BelloNo CommentsViews:

The sun has set on Prof Peter Obekpa, veteran’s veteran in surgery and proprietor of May Day Specialist Hospital in Abuja. Intervention understands that Prof Obekpa died at 1. 30 am December... Read more

A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Jibogram', 70th anniversary, Carl Schmitt, DEMOCRACY, Ibrahim Tahir, Left, Marxism, Modernism, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:

It is an event with all the potentials of exploding into a carnival and, in a totally unplanned manner, transform from politics into something political in the Carl Schmitt sense of the poli... Read more

Remembering Dr. Bene Madunagu

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'linguistic turn', Biological Sciences, Dr Bene Madunagu, Dr. Eddie Madunagu, Ferdinand de Saussure, Socialist feminism, University of Calabar, WINNo CommentsViews:

That Dr. Bene Madunagu has breathed her last has been formally announced. Death brings a lot to a close for most human beings. It does for Dr. Bene but it will take generations before she fi... Read more

The NPSA Celebrates Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, the Scholar-Diplomat and Ilorin Prince at 80

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 1999-2005, Chief Simon Adebo, DG – NIIA, First UN Under-SG and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Savannah Centre, UN Anti-apartheid Committee, WambaiNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu On 24th of this month (November, 2024), Prof. Gambari turned 80 years, having been born in Ilorin in 1944. Like I said in my earlier tributes to our senior Professors, P... Read more

Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, Amb Tunji Olagunju, Group Captain Salawudeen Olatinwo, IBB, NPSA, NSIA, Prof Adele Junaid, Prof Omo Omoruyi, UNIBENNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Hardly can one appreciate this tribute without bringing General Ibrahim Babangida administration into the centre of addressing its concerns. To start with, there are many... Read more

Professor Marietu Ohunene Tenuche, the Amazon, is a year older

Posted By: adminon: October 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: ABUSITE, Dean, Governing Council, OyinOizaEbira, Postgraduate School, Prince Abubakar Audu University - Anyigba, Social sciencesNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Prof. Tenuche, the Vice Chancellor of Prince Audu Abubakar University, Anyigba, turns 65 this year. I first came in contact her in Zaria in 2001 when I went to there to ex... Read more

Updated: Tribute to Haja Kadie Bangura (1942-1989)

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Bangura family, Freetown, Freetown Secondary School for Girls, Ibadan in Nigeria, Nursing sisterNo CommentsViews:

By Dr Yusuf Bangura I would like to start by thanking Alhaji, Junior, Adama, Daddy and the rest of the Bangura family for organising this memorial and birthday celebration event. I’m... Read more

Professor Robert Dode, NPSA’s Financial Secretary, Adds Another Year

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2024In: LifeworldTags: African Association of Political Science, Christopher Isike, Comparative Politics, Dennis Osadebey University – Asaba, Uyo, ‘Nativism’1 CommentViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Some Nigerians excel in their chosen fields outside their native roots, while others make their marks in their native areas. Many factors contribute to these contrast... Read more

Celebrating Prof. Warisu Oyesina Alli, Our Teacher, Mentor at 76

Posted By: adminon: September 12, 2024In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, NIIA, NPSA, NSIA, SIRA, Ukraine, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Professor W.O. Alli turned 76 some months back. A renowned scholar in the field of International Relations, Professor Alli joined the University of Jos in 1981 as a c... Read more

From Mrs Christiana Abbah to Y Z Y’au, It Is All Birthdays Deferred!

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 2nd National Development Plan (1970 – 1975), 3 scores and 10, Delinking, Dependency, IBB, Junior Aminu Kanos, NANSNo CommentsViews:

A Case of 3 Scores and 10 Postponed On a continent where the average lifespan is 55 years, there is hardly any logic in denying a 70 – year old housewife, mother and grandmother a clicking o... Read more