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Faces, Moments, Innovations From Ihotu and Akaniyene’s Traditional Wedding

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2024In: SpectacleTags: 'Ochenche', 2Face Idibia, Akwa Ibom, Barrister Joe Omakwu, Benue State, Bongos Ikwue, ‘Onyayenge’No CommentsViews:
Faces, Moments, Innovations From Ihotu and Akaniyene’s Traditional Wedding

The traditional wedding in question has already come and gone. There is no debate about it that thousands of inter-ethnic, inter-regional and even inter-faith marriages take place every now... Read more

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All Set for Ekoja and Ukpong’s Traditional Wedding

Posted By: adminon: April 10, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Akwa Ibom, Benue State, Inter-ethnic tension management, Pluralistic Nigeria, Pounded yamNo CommentsViews:
All Set for Ekoja and Ukpong's Traditional Wedding

Just imagine the likeness. Someone from Akwa Ibom meets someone from Benue State and they are to become husband and wife. There is everything good in that: one of the best means of diffusing... Read more

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Passing On @ 100, Onyikwu Adeka aka ‘Enekolee’ Evokes Memories of the Adulugba Era in Edumoga

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Enekolee', Benue State, Biopolitics, Chief D A Adulugba, District Head, Edumoga, Idoma Native Authority, Okpokwu LGANo CommentsViews:
Passing On @ 100, Onyikwu Adeka aka ‘Enekolee’ Evokes Memories of the Adulugba Era in Edumoga

Intervention cannot call her death the end of an era because the Adulugba family in Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State is too vast for that to be the case. But,... Read more

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Locals Block Enugu – Otukpo Road All Day Over Herder – Farmer War in Agatu

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu/Adoka, Benue State, Strategic Studies, ‘IdomaLivesMatter’No CommentsViews:
Locals Block Enugu – Otukpo Road All Day Over Herder – Farmer War in Agatu

Self-help assumed a total blocking of the Enugu – Otukpo highway at Gbokpo in Apa Local Government Council of Benue State for much of today (February 12th, 2024). A video sent to Interventio... Read more

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Violence Breaks Out in Agatu, Benue State, Again

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, Benue State, EU foreign and security policy, Ex-governor Samuel Ortom, Fulani, Global food chains, Herders, Indigenes, Nigerian cows, Nigerian State, Ranches, Settlers, The Police, Vice-Admiral Murtala NyakoNo CommentsViews:
Violence Breaks Out in Agatu, Benue State, Again

Violence is understood to have broken out in Agatu in Benue State between persons suspected to be herders and locals. Unconfirmed reports said there have been sporadic shooting across river... Read more

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Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Bala Usman, Benue State, Herdsmen violence, Islamisation, Middle Belt elite, Okwudiba Nnoli, Plateau State, Politicisation of security, Security architecture, Southern Kaduna, State failure, State policeNo CommentsViews:
Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

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

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Who Will Save Dr John Owoicho Adole?

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2023In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Benue State, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Historiography, UNIJOS, UNILAG, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:
Who Will Save Dr John Owoicho Adole?

It is not clear what is ailing Dr. John Owoicho Adole. Whatever it is, the former Permanent Secretary and an Associate Professor of History is in need of much more serious attention than the... Read more

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‘Fake’ News or Tragedy? Did Plateau Boy Hang Self Because Peter Obi Wasn’t Declared Winner?

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Benue State, INEC, Kaduna State, Peter Obi, Plateau StateNo CommentsViews:
'Fake' News or Tragedy? Did Plateau Boy Hang Self Because Peter Obi Wasn’t Declared Winner?

Intervention has checked to establish if any other media platform has published this story without success. But the source from whence it comes is as credible as it can be although how someo... Read more

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Nigeria Loses Many Sided Politician, Wantaregh Paul Unongo

Posted By: adminon: November 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Benue State, Idomaland, Psychology, Senator Joseph Tarka, Tiv aristocracy, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Loses Many Sided Politician, Wantaregh Paul Unongo

The news must still be seeping through Nigeria of the death earlier today of the Nigerian statesman, Paul Unongo. Many young Nigerians may not place him very well but, by his own testimony,... Read more

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AVM Monday Morgan as a New Message?

Posted By: adminon: October 23, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Aku Uka, Benue State, Garri, Kwararafa Empire, Moral authority, Och'Idoma, Senator David Mark, WukaiNo CommentsViews:
AVM Monday Morgan as a New Message?

No readers need bother himself or herself or themselves if they cannot make instant sense of this cover picture. Even Intervention had to ask only to learn it is the multicultural face of Ai... Read more

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