There is, indeed, radical contingency. Who would have known that a ruling Pope will be the ultimate nemesis of false emperors and professional dictators across the world? Well, in less than... Read more
Intervention is too busy on all fronts to resume publications at the moment but it is sparing just a few minutes to celebrate the victory of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York. His victory... Read more
Many would find it difficult to, on the face of it, make a connection between the twosome. But there are many things that connects them, separated as they seem by career line, location and c... Read more
A literature review exercise for an essay brought the tribe to memory. They were, indeed, a tribe, a tribe of intellectual hostage taking but in a critical and Afrocentric sense of that. The... Read more
The reality heard so often can quickly become the real. If that is correct, then the break-up of Nigeria heard so often can become real, irrespective of whether those who frame the way forwa... Read more
But for a scholar, it must be the equivalent of a suicide bid talking security at a time of insecurity nightmares in which even children are not spared, not to talk of women. Perhaps, it is... Read more
In his 2015 essay titled “The fate of a global language”, Prof Edgar Schneider, Chair Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg in Germany asked whether English is ‘go... Read more
Jos, the Plateau State capital, is converging later this morning at the 1st Professor Jonah Isawa Elaigwu Annual Lecture taking place at the Faculty of Arts Main Lecture Hall in ‘the Garden... Read more
The United Nations has given Nigeria’s Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari what might turn out his toughest appointment in that system. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has announced Ga... Read more
