BUKites (graduates of Bayero University, Kano) are insistent that the exceptional (food) insecurity being experienced in Nigeria is not a good enough reason not to celebrate one of theirs wh... Read more
Just as there is to be a sigh of relief about killings especially in Benue State, Plateau and Southern Kaduna, then came the news of the killing of about 80 persons in Bokkos and Barakin Lad... Read more
The fusion of the global and the local in the 21st century makes necessary to situate most developments in that context. That is exactly what Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria’s famous Fa... Read more
When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more
“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more
For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more
While we await possible explosive judicial tackles between Peter Obi’s Labour Party and Asiwaju Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress, (APC), we get on with trying to read the president – elect... Read more
Richard Umaru, a member of the ideologues behind the Balarabe Musa Government in Kaduna State of Nigeria in the Second Republic says he is contented and proud of his contributions to the str... Read more
It is victory of tragedy when a Richard Umaru writes on his Facebook page on his 70th birthday that he has gathered no moss. It must be tragedy because the reference to moss in the single se... Read more
It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more