People in Action
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
So vivacious that dying dramatically in a matter of 15 hours was out of the minds of anybody around her – family, friends and colleagues. But that was what happened by 1:05 a.m on February 2... Read more
As stressed as the popular space and its culture is from the impacts of insecurity and an excessively weak state, it has not lost its capacity for creativity in bringing humour to tension. O... Read more
By Tunde Akanni, PhD For my former colleague at Concord Press, now a young grandma, Patience Akpan, every child or grandchild of hers is her favourite. The scintillatingly beauteous and fash... Read more
There is no doubt about it that Nigeria’s Society for Peace Studies and Practice, (SPSP) is yet to establish itself in terms of what might be reckoned with as cutting-edge practices. Notwith... Read more
It must be that there have been extremely low cases of women in the sort of crime that attracts capital punishment. That can be the only explanation for why whether women are ever hanged or... Read more
Nigeria’s share of unspeakable, humiliating horrors wears a gender face although ethno-regional representation of the entire crisis has drowned the gender perspective. But the more chilling... Read more
