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How Leading Nigerian Political Scientist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, Died Within An Hour

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Ghali Umar Na'Abbah, Mazrui, NPSA, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Prof Istifanus Zabadi, Prof Sunday Ochoche, UNIJOS2 CommentsViews:

Bits and pieces available to Intervention point at death giving Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu no signals or notice before striking. He died early Tuesday, July 22, 2025 within an hour or thereabo... Read more

Dr. Edwin Idoko Obe: Homage to Iconicity

Posted By: adminon: July 21, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Government College Keffi, Methodist Church Otukpo, NCAST-Zaria, Nigerian Civil War, Obe Babes, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, Okpudu, Otukpo, Owukpa, University College Ibadan, “Eene wi`kpoe're ne"No CommentsViews:

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

Locating General Muhammadu Buhari in History

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ADC, Ataturk, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Industrialisation, NEPA, Prof Sam Aluko, Transformation Agenda, ‘Guided deregulation’, ‘Renewed Hope’ agendaNo CommentsViews:

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

On the 44th Anniversary of the Demise of Bala Mohammed

Posted By: adminon: July 11, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Differance, General Sani Abacha, Kano, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, North-South dichotomyNo CommentsViews:

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

Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2025In: People in ActionTags: African Literature, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Chinua Achebe, Literary criticism, Prof Claude Ake, University of PortharcourtNo CommentsViews:

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

UNIJOS Political Scientists Name Office After Late Prof Bonaventure Haruna

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Department of Political Science, Gamai Workers Association, Prof Aaron Gana, Prof Ali Mazrui, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, Prof Sonni Tyoden, Prof W O Alli, UNIJOS, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:

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

This Is My Story – Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Barewa College Zaria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Hajia Hajara, Hon. Justice Augustine Nnamani, Justice Atanda-Fatayi Williams, Justice Ayo Irikefe, Justice George Sodeinde Sowemimo, Justice Mamman Nasir, Justice Mohammed Bello, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Danley AlexanderNo CommentsViews:

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