The Guardian (UK) calls this “a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work”. That cannot be far from the truth as Toni Morrison sets the literary world on fire again. Serpel... Read more
By Prof Chima Anyadike A few hours after news broke of the death of Professor Biodun Jeyifo on the morning of 11 February 2026, a friend who is a former vice‑chancellor of Federal University... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more
I have heard a huge share of the stuff he was made of, including his articulation of the Aiyetoro community as a socialist entity in a thesis to Harvard University, at a time positivism was... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian power elite pulled another stunning stunt Monday September 22nd, 2025 by overcoming all factional, fractional, class, ethno-religious, regional, gender, generat... Read more
Barely a month after an iroko in the African literary forest fell, a reference to Ngugi Wa Thiongo, there has been the fall of another iroko. He is Charles Nnolim, a foremost critic in Afric... Read more
Nobody can predict what would come out of this major event from the UNN. It is probably best to wait to consume it. For, each of the variables involved – Achebe, the Novel and Postcolo... Read more
Prof Attahiru Jega came to the conversation on restructuring at the January 22, 2021 Media Trust Dialogue clearly set on conceptualising restructuring as no more than a rigorous or far reach... Read more
On September 3rd, 2016 when Intervention first carried this piece, (https://intervention.ng/4465/), it was responded to as disrespectful and there was a price to pay. But Intervention has ne... Read more
Today, populism is a dirty word across the world. To pour mud on it is an ideologically chic practice. It is being implicated in rabble rousing, hysteria and what doesn’t go beyond the surfa... Read more
