People in Action
No matter how many times and within whichever set of respondents, his name would be among the top three African musicians who stand out in terms of global impact. The two of them would be Hu... Read more
The death at 10 pm last Thursday of Dr Emmanuel Udah Olowu at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria is no news anymore. All those who should hear the death of the almost 65 year old academ... Read more
From Port Harcourt comes Ekaete George, author of the poetry collection titled Saints and Scoundrels, with this piece on Odia Ofeimun who has been in this news for clocking 70 this week By E... Read more
He might have worked somewhere else before but it was at The Nation he put a stamp on journalism by, amongst others, effectively combining salesmanship, advertising, editorial, (He was State... Read more
Two speakers did not agree with Prof Bayo Olukoshi. They were Prof Ebere Onwudiwe and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State. Onwudiwe argues that thematising the event in terms of the f... Read more
The open as well as muted case for break–up of Nigeria as an alternative to existing Nigeria has suffered a heavy blow from easily the largest gathering of radical activists in Nigeria in re... Read more
Provoked by the death of Professor Harry Garba, making three key actors to have died from Nigeria’s creative space between January and February 2020, Intervention published the story “Chukwu... Read more
Four months after his death, friends, former colleagues, ex-students and critics of the late Prof Bjorn Beckman are gathering to take another look at his scholarship and activism in relation... Read more
This story has no pictures of the subject himself. That might come later. Such pictures are not advisable immediately so that no flood of emotions and sentiments beclouds representing the su... Read more
Three big names dead in the creative space under one month! That’s a big blow to any nation. First to go was Chief Chukwuemeka Ike, former Registrar of the West African Examinations Council,... Read more
