Edumoga Archives - Intervention

When Emmanuel and Kate Became Husband and Wife

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Adulugba family, Amalia, Edumoga, Emmanuel and Kate, Kyiv, Marriage, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Yalewata, ‘ Gwumolo l’Owoicho’No CommentsViews:

The tail end of last week up to this moment (Monday, June 16th, 2025) has been a violent regime, from Yalewata in Benue State to Kyiv in Ukraine, then Tehran and Tel Aviv. These are the late... Read more

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:

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

The Return of ‘M’ Ola @ Richard Adakole Ola’s Impending Wedding

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Clash of Civilisation, Ebirraland, Edumoga, No Longer @ Ease, Ontological violence, ReincarnationNo CommentsViews:

Dead people do not come back. That was Obi Oknkwo’s father in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease, protesting loudly when the elders said the returnee was a reincarnation of his grandfather or... Read more

Okpokwu Peace Rally, Magnificent Finale to a Local Conflict With a Global Context?

Posted By: adminon: September 19, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Edumoga, Ichama, NIC, Okpoga, Okpokwu LGA, Olanyega, Omusu, Operation White StrokeNo CommentsViews:

Okpokwu Local Government Area is just one out of the many spaces of violence across recent Nigeria but a sociologically and locationally intriguing one too. There are sociological and locati... Read more

Sawyer Shot Dead in Ugbokolo, Benue State of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 01, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Urban' banditry, Edumoga, Insecurity crisisNo CommentsViews:

Unknown gun men have shot dead a sawyer in the forests of Aobida in rural Ugbokolo in Benue State. There are no clues so far to the killing this afternoon of the victim by name Audu Adoli wh... Read more

Mass Transfer of Policemen Out of Ugbokolo

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Bashir Makama, Benue Polytechnic, Edumoga, Otukpo Area Command, UgbokoloNo CommentsViews:

All policemen and women who have served for three years and above at post are to be transferred out of Ugbokolo Divisional Police Headquarters, the Benue State Commissioner for Police, Mr Ba... Read more

Politician Shot Dead in Ugbokolo Violence in Benue State

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Ajide, Akpodo, Edumoga, Makurdi, Ojapo, Otukpo, Police, Prison, SARS, UgbokoloNo CommentsViews:

Violence in and around the Benue Polytechnic town of Ugbokolo has further escalated with the shooting to death last night of Mister Ambrose Aba, a prominent local politician. He was killed b... Read more

“Eke-Ojapo Road Construction is ‘Edumoga Moment’”, Elite Alert Local Politicians, Police, ‘Cultists’, Criminals and Trouble Makers

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Edumoga Moment', EDEMA, Edumoga, Eke-Ojapo Road, Idoma Native Authority, Okpokwu LGC, Otukpo, UgbokloNo CommentsViews:

“Eke-Ojapo Road Construction is ‘Edumoga Moment’”, Elite Alert Local Politicians, Police, ‘Cultists’, Criminals and Trouble Makers Ahead of the commencement of construction work next week on... Read more

Herdsmen Raid Leaves One Dead and Transformer Razed in Opiddlo, Benue State

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Edumoga, Mrs Veronica Ogwuche, Ojapo, Okpale-Ogege, OpiddloNo CommentsViews:

Herdsmen Raid Leaves One Dead and Transformer Razed in Opiddlo, Benue State An early morning raid on Opiddlo Village in Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area in Benue State of Ni... Read more

The Rise of the Others in a Deeply Divided World

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Edumoga, Fareed Zakaria, Governmentality, OrwyNo CommentsViews:

The Rise of the Others in a Deeply Divided World In a deeply divided world and very unequal national societies, the rise of the Other of the powerful is always an event. When Brazil, Russia,... Read more