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Royal Bombshell @ Baze University, Abuja’s 7th Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 'Benin Empire', Africa, Baze University, Belongingness, Identity, Kabba Calendar, Memory, MigrationNo CommentsViews:

It was an Inaugural Lecture with several differences. There was the fanfare which we can call the Baze University flavouring of the Inaugural Lecture tradition in academia. There was the roy... Read more

End of An Era As Prof Adamu Baike Succumbs to Death @ 92

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Benue Plateau State, Death, Gen Sani Abacha, Identity, Kano, Nasarawa State University, National University of Lesotho, Otukpo, Prof Ishaya Audu, Sabon Gari - Kano, University of BeninNo CommentsViews:

When Intervention had to post a quick story on Comrade Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed on December 12th, 2025, it was assumed that it would be the last story on death for 2025. Actually, the idea o... Read more

Chidinma Mordi Unfolds in Paris

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2024In: SpectacleTags: "L'été Parisien”, Cultural heritage, Identity, Nigerian art, Oreofe Art GalleryNo CommentsViews:

Chidinma Yemisi Mordi, the emerging Nigerian artist, continues to make waves in the international art scene as she participates in her second group exhibition in Europe. This time, her work... Read more

John Odah Again?

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2023In: People in ActionTags: General Ibrahim Babangida, Identity, Late Nelson Mandela, NIPSS Alumni, NLC, WomenNo CommentsViews:

Blame the headline on the Sec 26 (the 2004 set of participants at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS). But for them, the unwritten law is that Comrade John Odah... Read more

Kwame Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Identity, Philosophy, race1 CommentViews:

The American Academy of Letters has a new president. In this story lifted from Daily Nous, (with minor alteration to the title, paragraph arrangement and the reference to his publications),... Read more

Drama As Kano and Jigawa States Bicker Over Recording of COVID-19 Victim

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Identity, Kaduna/Kano borderNo CommentsViews:

Determined to maintain the status of a state without a single case of COVID-19 infection in Nigeria, Jigawa State has bluntly rejected insinuations on the social media to the effect that the... Read more

Racial Controversy Trail Prince Harry, Obama’s Daughter’s Love Lives

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Harvard, Identity, PPostmodernism, raceNo CommentsViews:

They might appear on the surface to be about matters of the heart or the proclivity of rich boys and girls but, in truth, they are about the complexity of identity in the world to come and h... Read more