Lifeworld Archives - Intervention

What Should Be Worrisome About the Death of Nigeria’s Prof David West?

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, McGill University, Robert Cox, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, TSM, University of Ibadan, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria’s Prof David West is dead. The news of that has already spread across the country. People live longer than the age of 83 nowadays but even then, 83 is still advanced in the comparati... Read more

Pondering on John Cardinal Onaiyekan

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Alternative Modernity, Catholicism, DialogueNo CommentsViews:

75 years on earth, 50 of that in priesthood without entrapment in any unproductive controversies, allegations, scandals or acts out rightly prejudicial to peaceful co-existence in a very tem... Read more

Death of Bjorn Beckman Brings Back Memories of an Era in Nigeria Especially

Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2019In: LifeworldTags: 'World System' Theory, FASS, Ghana, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, SOUTH AFRICA, University of Dar es Salaam, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

It is mourning time again for an individual beyond the spatiality of the nation-state on account of the force of his scholarship and internationalist practices. That is Professor Bjorn Beckm... Read more

The Amazing, Tear-Inducing But Soul Lifting and Timeless Story of Meimuna Mansaray

Posted By: adminon: November 01, 2019In: LifeworldTags: No CommentsViews:

This video is neither new nor original to Intervention but it is published here for one reason: it is a timeless depiction of the African condition more than any other text can. From the unb... Read more

Sudden Death of 23-Year Old Samuel Adulugba Puzzles All

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Dunamis, NYSC, Oxford Brookes UniversityNo CommentsViews:

The mystery of death deepened this morning in Abuja when friends, neighbours and circle members woke up to the news of the death of 23-year old Samuel Adulugba. Samuel graduated last June in... Read more

You Are Looking 50 @ 85 Because of Your Godliness, Engr Abba-Gana Tells Gen Gowon

Posted By: adminon: October 22, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Biafra, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Igbo, Lord Lugard, Shehu ShagariNo CommentsViews:

One is nine years older than the other but there is a bond between them that seems so thick, belying the age difference, going by the wording of the letter. That is the letter below from an... Read more

Grief As Mrs Henrietta Gubo Goes Home

Posted By: adminon: October 16, 2019In: LifeworldTags: No CommentsViews:

Man or womankind’s near total defeat in the face of death was on display today at Veritas University, Abuja when the remains of Mrs Henrietta Gubo was brought to her office for the very last... Read more

Bidding Mrs Theresa Ochugboju the Final Goodbye

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Adoka, Chief Ijegwa Adaji, Major S A Ochugboju, Mary Knoll College - Ogoja, Middle – Belt, Otukpo, Poverty, World BankNo CommentsViews:

It is difficult to write about burial of women/mothers in Idomaland without being essentialist about it. From Ekiti or Oyo State in the Southwest of Nigeria to Jigawa or Katsina State in the... Read more

Context and Meaning in SAN Status of Prof Alphonsus Okoh Alubo and Paul Harris Ogbole

Posted By: adminon: September 24, 2019In: LifeworldTags: SAN, University of JosNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria has developed in such a way that certain things do not have the same meaning or significance nationally. One such thing would be the conferment of the title of Senior Advocate of Nig... Read more

It is Another Anniversary of the Passing Away of Yusuf Bala Usman

Posted By: adminon: September 23, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Ake, Fulanisation, Ife Collective, Kaduna Mafia, Northern oligarchy, Super 5, Talakawa, YBU, Zaria GroupNo CommentsViews:

It is one more anniversary of the late engaging academic, Yusuf Bala Usman, (YBU) and the many paradoxes around his person, scholarship and radical activism, coinciding with alarming signals... Read more