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How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:
How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

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Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari in the Eyes of the People

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Abba Kyari, ABU Zaria, Afonja, External Affairs Minister, Ilorin Emirate, NPSA, OAU, President John Mahama of Ghana, Theory of Concentric CirclesNo CommentsViews:
Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari in the Eyes of the People

Prof Hassan A.  Saliu Introduction No doubt, many birthday celebrations have been held in honour of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari but none can compare with the 2024 edition in terms of number of act... Read more

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Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, CODESRIA, CPS – Yola, Dares Salam School, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, ECOMOG, Emman Udoka, FASS, Fellowship of Christians Students, Hajiya Najaatu Mohammed, Hon Rima Shawulu, Ibadan School of History, IGP Etim Inyang, Marxism, MPN, Ms Julie Sanda, NDA, PhD, Prof Paul Izah, Prof Peter Ekeh, Prof Sonni Tyoden, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:
Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

By Prof Gani Yoroms It has taken me a long time to write this tribute but it is still with a heavy heart that I do so. The moment I heard of the death of Professor Dunmoye, a friendly and be... Read more

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Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Amb Tunji Olagunju, Group Captain Salawudeen Olatinwo, IBB, NPSA, NSIA, Prof Adele Junaid, Prof Omo Omoruyi, UNIBENNo CommentsViews:
Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

By Hassan A. Saliu Hardly can one appreciate this tribute without bringing General Ibrahim Babangida administration into the centre of addressing its concerns. To start with, there are many... Read more

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Prof Sam Oyovbaire and the Location of the Obasanjo Signifier

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, Alison Ayida, Asian Tigers, Dr Bene Madunagu, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, General Yakubu Gowon, IMF/World Bank, OBASANJO, Signifier, State collapse, State InterventionismNo CommentsViews:
Prof Sam Oyovbaire and the Location of the Obasanjo Signifier

It bears repeating that Intervention is still on a publishing holiday and will only make one concession or the other once a while till further notice. It is therefore still not receiving mat... Read more

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As Prof Ayo Dunmoye Takes His Final Bow

Posted By: adminon: August 20, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', ABU Zaria, ASUU, NUC, Political Science, Republic of China, Senate, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:
As Prof Ayo Dunmoye Takes His Final Bow

By Adagbo Onoja The dirges and mourning rites must be going on in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he rose to the position of Professor of Political Science, within the Nigerian Politica... Read more

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Bongos Ikwue, John Ochoga, Others Converge to Perform Mrs Ebun Oglegba @ 50

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Amen', ABU Zaria, Body of Benchers, OAU Ile-IfeNo CommentsViews:
Bongos Ikwue, John Ochoga, Others Converge to Perform Mrs Ebun Oglegba @ 50

Intervention has no idea whatsoever of the artistic or cultural weight of Ebun Oglegba, wife of Benue State Commissioner for Finance. But she was able to pull out Bongos Ikwue to her to his... Read more

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Updated: Dr. Wahab Page and Memories of the NUJ Centre in Kaduna in the 1980s

Posted By: adminon: June 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: A B Ahmed, Abdulrahman Black, ABU Zaria, Kaduna, Media Trust, New Nigerian Newspapers, Oga Duro, Press Centre, Wahab Page Igbuan, Yunusa AliyuNo CommentsViews:
Updated: Dr. Wahab Page and Memories of the NUJ Centre in Kaduna in the 1980s

By Adagbo Onoja No matter how tight deadlines some of us are confronting, we must make time to report the passage of Wahab Page. He died about a week ago if we follow Dr. Linus Akor’s Facebo... Read more

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End of French Empire or French Manoeuvre in (West) Africa?

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Coups, ECOWAS, French Empire, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
End of French Empire or French Manoeuvre in (West) Africa?

The democratic space in West Africa has not been a smooth one of recent. It has been defined by one coup after the other, most if not all of them emitting high voltage rhetoric against Franc... Read more

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Prof. William Alade Fawole, the Foreign Policy Scholar and Activist, Retires from OAU, Ile-Ife

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, ASUU, George Washington University, International Relations, Nigerian foreign policy, OAU Ile-IfeNo CommentsViews:
Prof. William Alade Fawole, the Foreign Policy Scholar and Activist, Retires from OAU, Ile-Ife

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Ife, now OAU, holds a lot of significance for the study of International Relations in Nigeria. It was from there that the discipline has spread to o... Read more

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