People in Action
The Dakar based Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is in sackcloth over Prof Fantu Cheru, the multiply involved Ethiopian political economist who pas... Read more
By Prof Chris Kwaja Indeed, God has been gracious to Abdoulaye Wade, former president of Senegal. He clocks 100 years. Beyond his role as President of Senegal, he was a staunch pan-Africanis... Read more
It is not just what happened but how the dream went burst. The dream of Nigeria’s actual and potential leaders that Nigeria was rising as the stallion for the Black world in the same m... Read more
Leading historian, Prof Segun Osoba, is dead. He died earlier today, according to snippets from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he used to teach History. Prof Osoba had aged co... Read more
Jigawa State born ex-legislator, Hon. Abba Anas Adamu, is scheduled to be buried in Kano later today. The burial will be attended by a mixture of activists, academics and politicians. The la... Read more
Dr. Edwin Madunagu, notable Nigerian protagonist of socialism, is clocking 80 years of life on earth and the birthday bells are ringing ceaselessly. A statement made available to Interventio... Read more
There are many of them nowadays – burials or birthdays or a book presentations for one activist of yore or another. At each one of such event, nostalgia for the past pops up, sometimes... Read more
Although a return to the barricades looks farfetched, a powerful sense of the radical project in Nigeria as an unfinished mission struck activists and mourners of Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohamme... Read more
Author and activist, Dr. Chido Onumah, turned 60 on April 10th, 2026. In obvious sensitivity to the mood of a world at war and a country caught in sickening killings and mass misery, he turn... Read more
Death has struck again, this time taking away Hajia Hadiza Jega, the wife of Prof Attahiru Jega It is not clear when exactly she breathed her last but two persons, all ex-students of Prof At... Read more
