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From Decolonising the Fortune Teller to Glimpses of 2027 Politics in Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Colonial anthropologists, Decoloniality, Fortune teller, Garri, Idomaland, Lower Edumoga, Otukpo, PoliticiansNo CommentsViews:
From Decolonising the Fortune Teller to Glimpses of 2027 Politics in Idomaland

The late Chief Uloko Okoko may not have been one of the regular names we encountered in the newspapers but he ought to have been in the media regularly. It is for no other reason than that h... Read more

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Nigeria Loses Many Sided Politician, Wantaregh Paul Unongo

Posted By: adminon: November 29, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Benue State, Idomaland, Psychology, Senator Joseph Tarka, Tiv aristocracy, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Loses Many Sided Politician, Wantaregh Paul Unongo

The news must still be seeping through Nigeria of the death earlier today of the Nigerian statesman, Paul Unongo. Many young Nigerians may not place him very well but, by his own testimony,... Read more

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Memories of the Rural Child Prodigy in Those Days

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2022In: SpectacleTags: 'Agigle', Boy-child, Bushmeat, Ene, Europe, Girl child, Idomaland, Motherhood, MothersNo CommentsViews:
Memories of the Rural Child Prodigy in Those Days

The graphic serving as cover picture for this piece could as well have been a computer simulated stuff in an age when the real and the unreal can no longer be distinguished. But it is still... Read more

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The Radical Dimension to the Coming Cynthia Ochefije Edeba and Emmanuel Sunday Enegela’s Wedding

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Agatu, Edemoga, Idomaland, MarxistNo CommentsViews:
The Radical Dimension to the Coming Cynthia Ochefije Edeba and Emmanuel Sunday Enegela's Wedding

Strictly speaking, it is a boy and girl affair when Cynthia Ochefijie Edeba weds Emmanuel Sunday Enegela next Saturday, (October 9th, 2021). At that level, this is just another routine exerc... Read more

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Commander Ajenu’s Religious Touch to the Military Intervention in Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: April 14, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Benue State, David Mark, Enlightenment, Garri, Idomaland, Monday Morgan, Okpokwu LGA, Socialism, TivNo CommentsViews:
Commander Ajenu’s Religious Touch to the Military Intervention in Idomaland

It has come to pass that ex-UI’s Professor Bayo Adekanye said it all when he wrote a book on the transformation of the military into an elite of power. As an elite of power, they are everywh... Read more

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Deputy-Governorship Candidate Suffers Cultist Take-Over of Otukpo

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Cultists, IdomalandNo CommentsViews:
Deputy-Governorship Candidate Suffers Cultist Take-Over of Otukpo

Cultists is what everyone calls them. Where that terminology is coming from and what it might mean are unclear but that is the reality of Otukpo, the most urban town in Idomaland in Benue St... Read more

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End of an Era as Chief Obande Obeya Travels Out of Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2019In: LifeworldTags: 1995 Constitutional Conference, Chief David Attah, Chief Edwin Ogbu, Gen Sani Abacha, Idomaland, NPN, Obeya Memorial Secondary School, Och'Idoma of IdomaNo CommentsViews:
End of an Era as Chief Obande Obeya Travels Out of Idomaland

Other than the minority status of the Idoma nationality in a nation of mega nationalities, he occupied the same status as the Adedibus, the Shehu Musa Yar’Aduas and the late Sola Saraki. The... Read more

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Return to Your Village and Back It Up – Gov Ortom Tells Omusu People

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: Coalition of Northern Groups, Idomaland, Ojapo, Okpokwu LGA, TivlandNo CommentsViews:
Return to Your Village and Back It Up - Gov Ortom Tells Omusu People

The clearest indication that no behind the scene efforts have been made by any set of stake holders in peace in Nigeria showed today at Omusu Village in Okpokwu LGA of Benue State when the s... Read more

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Sawyer’s Story Contradicted But Not Withdrawn

Posted By: adminon: November 02, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Crime, Idomaland, StringerNo CommentsViews:
Sawyer’s Story Contradicted But Not Withdrawn

Intervention’s account of the circumstances surrounding the death of a sawyer in Ugbokolo in Benue State of Nigeria yesterday has been contradicted. An alternative account has it that the sa... Read more

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The Church and the Happiness Index Puzzle in Contemporary Idomaland

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Catholic Church, Church, Clash of Civilisation, Culture, Happiness Index, IdomalandNo CommentsViews:
The Church and the Happiness Index Puzzle in Contemporary Idomaland

  The Church and the Happiness Index Puzzle in Contemporary Idomaland It was always a shocker to consistently observe that much of vibrancy and high spirit among the folks. Relative to their... Read more

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