Spectacle Archives - Intervention

University of St Andrews Breaks Record Again, the 2nd in One Week

Posted By: adminon: September 15, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Stoxbridge', Daily Mail, Imperial College, Massification, NIGERIA, Oxbridge hegemony, Oxford, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, UK universities, University College London, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

Last week, it broke the record of maintaining the Number One position for the second year running on The Guardian newspaper’s league table of UK universities. Not only did it do so, the rank... Read more

Is UK’s University of St Andrews Finally Breaking the Oxbridge Hegemony?

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Stoxbridge', Cambridge, Oxford, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

The University of St Andrews in the UK does not have the size or population to be part of the global top 20, the student population having been deliberately kept almost permanently around 10... Read more

President Lula of Brazil Returns With His Zero Hunger Crusade

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2023In: SpectacleTags: ABC, Brazil Without Hunger Plan, Family stipend, FAO Hunger Map, G-20, Global inequality, Human Right to Adequate Food, IFAD, National Food and Nutrition Security System, WTONo CommentsViews:

Perhaps, the Brazilians are the luckiest set in voting back to power a president crusading against hunger exactly as he did in his first time in power. That campaign makes him as well as Bra... Read more

Why More of Us Should Start Eating With our Hands

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anglocentric ‘table manners’, Fingers, Food, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Coconut Tree, ‘Healthy bacteria’No CommentsViews:

By Kate Ng Kate Ng, ex- writer with the UK’s The Independent (this is her last piece there but there is yet no idea where she is bursting upon next) has raised an issue that is sure to be a... Read more

Prince Edwin Ochai, New Idoma Association USA Leader, Preaches Multiculturalism

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Idoma Association USA, Igbanonmaje, Israel Ekere, Prince Edwin Ochai, Prof Steve Ugba, Senator Abba MoroNo CommentsViews:

The Idoma Association USA has a new President-General. He is Prince Edwin Ochai. Prince Ochai is said to bring with him a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to serving the Idoma comm... Read more

NPSA Intervenes in Niger Debacle Amidst Concern if Africa Faces Return of Military Vanguardism

Posted By: adminon: August 10, 2023In: SpectacleTags: No CommentsViews:

Those eager to get a more nuanced insight into the stalemate in Niger Republic have August 17th, 2023 to satisfy that desire. That day will feature a lecturer on the “The Nigerien Crisis: it... Read more

Could They Be Plotting the 50th Anniversary of ‘Ethnic Politics in Nigeria’?

Posted By: adminon: August 03, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Canonical, Enlightenment philosophy, ethnicity, Marx, Prof Okello Oculi, Reuben Ziri, USSRNo CommentsViews:

It is just three years away and it might not be too early if that is what Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, the author of Ethnic Politics in Nigeria and his junior brother in ethnicity and ethnic conflic... Read more

‘Journalism Yesterday and Today: Periscoping the Future’

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2023In: SpectacleTags: ACSPN, Chief Dayo Duyile, Elizade University, Eminent Persons Series, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

There are three items that recommend the verbatim publication of what should properly be an advertorial or may have been paid for as such otherwise. But Intervention is fascinated by the thr... Read more

Jet Crashes into Civilians in Makurdi in Nigeria, Casualties Yet Unknown

Posted By: adminon: July 14, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Aircrash, Makurdi, NAF BaseNo CommentsViews:

An air accident has been reported from Makurdi, the Benue State capital in central Nigeria. It happened at the Makurdi Air Force Base at precisely 5:55 00hrs Friday, July 14th, 2023. Both pi... Read more

Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anibal Quijano, ASUU, Biodun Jeyifo, Campaign for Democracy, Chapter Two of the Constitution, Coloniality of modernity, Emancipation, Femi Falana, Latin America, Marxism, Philosophy, Prof Claude Ake, Walter Mignolo1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more