People in Action
By Igoche Silas Uloko The piece below is not original to Intervention. It is only published in deference to the sender but also in deference to the mystique of Dr Edwin Idoko Obe. Those who... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja In spite of everything, General Muhammadu Buhari managed to commandeer so much national attention to himself since his death in London on July 13th, 2025. He must be a strong... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Yesterday, July 10th, 2025 was the 44th anniversary of the murder of Dr Bala Mohammed. It happened at a time he was the Political Adviser to the then governor of the old Kan... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
