BUK Archives - Intervention

Hajia Hadiza Jega is Dead

Posted By: adminon: April 05, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Activism, BUK, Prof Attahiru JegaNo CommentsViews:

Death has struck again, this time taking away Hajia Hadiza Jega, the wife of Prof Attahiru Jega It is not clear when exactly she breathed her last but two persons, all ex-students of Prof At... Read more

Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu’s Event

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, BUK, CAPP, LSE, NANS, NLC, NTA, OAU Ile-Ife, Philosophy, UNN, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The 85th birthday and book presentation in honour of pioneer president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Hassan Summonu has come and gone with its many sides. Al... Read more

Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more

Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more

An Evening Encountering History @ Wole Olaoye’s Birthday

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, BUK, DRUM, Journalism, NANS, NUNS, Political economy of Mass Communication, UNIJOS, University of Ife, ‘Junk journalism’, ‘Peeping Tom journalism’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Although he carries a swagger stick, a signifying practice communicating authority or mystique in much of Africa, he doesn’t accept that he is an elder statesman yet. But he... Read more

42nd Anniversary of Mallam Aminu Kano Takes on the Politics of Tax Reform in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2025In: FlashbackTags: 2nd Republic, Ascetism, BUK, PRPNo CommentsViews:

Mallam Aminu Kano retains the profile of the model of the radical tradition in the North, best signified by the PRP of the 2nd Republic. Aminu Kano’s ascetism is not the fake type mani... Read more

Reveal Your Head, It Cannot Be Hidden: The Unmasking of the PYMN and the Student Movement in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, ASUU, BUK, Emma Ezeazu, Feminists, Marxists, MPN, NANS, NCNC, NLC, NUNS, NYM, PYMN, Segun Okeowo, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNN, WIN, YUSSAN, ZikistsNo CommentsViews:

By Y. Z. Ya’u Cde Y. Z Yáu, the Executive Director of the Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), delivered this review of the book Aluta Continua: The Story of... Read more

NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Canada, Ebira, Marxist Conference, NPSA, Okene, Political Science, Toyin Falola, UDUS, UKNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has announced the death of Prof Nuhu Yaqub. Yaqub was a former ASUU Branch Chairman, former Deputy-Vice Chancellor (DVC) at Usmanu Danfodiyo... Read more

The Paradox of the Axe in Prof Hassan Saliu @ 62

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, David Easton, Methodology, NPSA, OAU Ile-Ife, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There’s a sense in which NPSA President, Prof Hassan Saliu’s 62nd birthday on December 22nd, 2024 shared so much with the remarkable paradox of the axe iterated i... Read more

Madam Agnes Ochiga: Towards an Idoma – Gbagyi Oligarchy?

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Comrade Patrick Ameh Ochiga, Gbaygi, Kaduna Textiles Limited, Ogene Amejo, Prof Dahiru YahyaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It was a former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who drew my attention to this before I went deeper into the literature. We were discussing the Nigeria... Read more