People in Action
Leading members of the civil society in Nigeria are mourning the loss of loved ones, all of them nearly at the same time. Even as sketchy as the details of the deceased are in each case at t... Read more
Leading Nigerian gender activist, Ene Ede, is in deep but subdued mourning of her only son, Edoka Onoja who died in cloudy circumstances in the early hours of Wednesday, January 19th, 2022.... Read more
This story needed to be updated to insert the correct the name. Otherwise, it remains the same with what was initially posted – Editor Death has occurred of Dr. Kola Torimiro, 83 year... Read more
By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more
This story will be withdrawn and reposted as soon as Intervention is able to get a good picture of the late Nelson Ananze. Radical activists in Nigeria are mourning their own share of the sp... Read more
Academia in Nigeria has lost Prof Alex Gboyega, a leading scholar in Public Administration at the University of Ibadan before his retirement. He was 76 years old at death Wednesday morning,... Read more
It is not easy to intellectualise mourning/death and not get rejoinders. This is what Bayero University, Kano’s Prof Ibrahim Bello-Kano, (IBK) may taste after Intervention published hi... Read more
Dear His Lordship, Happy New Year to you over there in Sokoto! This is actually not my project in its original sense. The duty of taking it over and reconceptualising it has only fallen on m... Read more
Many must have forgotten about the brouhaha over the television series ‘Wonders of the African World’ between the late Ali Mazrui on the one hand and Wole Soyinka, Biodun Jeyifo and Henry Lo... Read more
Nigeria can be considered the world headquarter of paradoxes. Too many things are going wrong but, amidst the nightmare, many good things are also happening. However one sees it, making a tw... Read more
