Spectacle Archives - Intervention

Prof Linda Kwon-Ndung, the Amazon, Adds Another Year to Her Age

Posted By: adminon: March 24, 2025In: SpectacleTags: History Project Committee of NPSA, Nasarawa State University, Political economy, UNFPA, USAID/COMPASSNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Female members of the NPSA are very few. This stark reality confronted us recently when we were planning to organize a methodology workshop for our female members. In on... Read more

Justice James Ogebe (rtd) and Prof Okwudiba Nnoli as Questions

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 9/11, CORRUPTION, ethnicity, Fantasy, Knowledge/power, Okello Oculi, Supreme Court, Things Fall Apart, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Saturday March 21st, 2025 happened to be the 85th and 86th birthday anniversary of two Nigerians who are eminent in different ways. One is Justice James Ogebe, a retired Just... Read more

Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

Why You Probably Aren’t Washing Your Towels Often Enough

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardiff University, Fungi, India, Japan, Salmonella, Shigella, Simmons University Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community in Boston, The Global Hygiene Council, The International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

BBC Essentials List makes an issue of a habit that many might not have accord that seriousness By Grace Tyrrell The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbe... Read more

Prince Abel Bolanle: When the Stranger Became a Native in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Benue Polytechnic – Ugbokolo, Breaking Nigeria, ESSU, Holy Rosary College - Adoka, Mt St Gabriel’s – Makurdi, Mt St Michael Secondary School – Aliade, Pa Ishaiah Falola, SBS – Ugbokolo, St Francis College - Otukpo, Ugbokolo, WASCNo CommentsViews:

The Ugbokolo community in Edemoga District of Okpokwu LGA in Benue State of Nigeria might be teaching Nigeria how to make strangers become natives. It is doing so by staging a special mourni... Read more

When Caleb Fali Tied the Nuptial Knot With Godwina Ali

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abuja, Ali, Benue State, Borno State, Durumi, Fali, Kaduna State, Radio Benue, Radio Nigeria, Saint Gabriel ChaplaincyNo CommentsViews:

Ace broadcaster, Regina Fali, was one of the voices without which news was not news on the network of Radio Benue, Makurdi. That was two decades ago before she, typically, played the nomadic... Read more

Why Are We Not Hearing the Women Political Scientists in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Carol Coon, EProf Irene Pogoson, Feminist positionality, NPSA, Prof Marietu TenucheNo CommentsViews:

By writing on Julie Sanda, the second time a woman would be featured in his series, the first being Prof Marietu Tenuche, NPSA President, Hassan Saliu, has struck at the women question in Ni... Read more

Day Lagos Showed Yusuf Bangura Pepper!

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Lagos traffic police, Lekki, Terra Kulture, Victoria Island, ‘Settlement’No CommentsViews:

Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 turned out “A bad day in Lagos” for Dr. Yusuf Bangura, visiting Sierra Leonean and ex-ABU, Zaria scholar and his wife, Kadie. He tells the story in his own wor... Read more

The Nigerian Judiciary: The Rotten Bench and the Rotten Bar

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Bar, Bench, Billionaire judges, Justice Ejembi Eko, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, Justice Muhammed Uwais, Justice Simon Uwaifo, Senator Adamu Bulkachuwa, ‘Perpetual injunction’No CommentsViews:

By Martin Ihembe The Nigerian judiciary has come a long way. It survived the onslaught of military dictatorship where decrees superseded court judgments. Even at this, members of the Bench w... Read more

How Nigeria Ended Up As the Country With the Highest Out of School Children in the World – Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2024In: SpectacleTags: 'Emilokan' governmentality, Cardinal Emeritus John Onaiyekan, General Gowon, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

It was the usual magic of the paradoxical to sneak in and successfully steal a critical moment in most such occasions. This was no less the case at the five-hour long 70th birthday of Prof J... Read more