India Archives - Intervention

Could This Be Taken as Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s Oracular Testament to Nigerians?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Austria, Continental Europe, Crimea, Germany, India, Indias, Niger Delta, UK, Ukraine, USSR, ‘Mistake of 1914’No CommentsViews:

Intervention might not have been done with Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s demise but, for now, it draws the curtain with what might be the Oracle’s most direct message to Nigerians on nation bui... Read more

It is Nigerian PS, Amb Nick Ella’s Reflective 60th Birthday

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, India, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Nigerian foreign service, Permanent Secretary, USNo CommentsViews:

Bureaucrats, technocrats, diplomats, other colleagues, friends and relations will gather in Abuja, Nigeria later today (April 12th, 2025) to mark the 60th birthday of Ambassador Nick Ella.... Read more

Why You Probably Aren’t Washing Your Towels Often Enough

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardiff University, Fungi, India, Japan, Salmonella, Shigella, Simmons University Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community in Boston, The Global Hygiene Council, The International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

BBC Essentials List makes an issue of a habit that many might not have accord that seriousness By Grace Tyrrell The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbe... Read more

What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more

Indian Foreign Affairs Minister to Speak @ NIIA

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: GovernanceTags: CHINA, Global agenda, Global South, India, NIIA, westNo CommentsViews:

The global agenda is in a flux. The much talked about ‘liberal international order’ is unravelling. The world is experiencing what most scholars of world politics would call hegemonic succes... Read more

Amb Nicholas Ella, Nura Rimi As a Window on 8 New Perm Secs in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Africa, CHINA, Egypt, Gen Joe Garba, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, Henry Kissinger, India, London, Nigerian foreign service, Nigeria’s neighbours, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, US1 CommentViews:

Correction It has become necessary to correct two impressions created by this story, based on calls from readers. (1) This story did not imply that Ambassadors Nicholas Ella and Nura Rimi ar... Read more

Democracy in Danger – The Economist

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: American democracy, ANC, Asia, Britain, Conflict, Coups, DONALD TRUMP, India, KMT, Rwanda, Taiwan, Vladmir PutinNo CommentsViews:

Intervention thought and still thinks that, for a country such as Nigeria which has made a career of heckling every president and political leaders at all levels for rigging, nepotism, corru... Read more

Is President Tinubu Nigeria's Foreign Investment Moment?

By Adagbo Onoja Irrespective of fragmentation and disaffection at home, there are certain issues that enjoy consensus in Nigerian politics, regardless of the government in power. It would be... Read more

Prof Adele Jinadu Has Killed a Conceptual Elephant

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2023In: BookspaceTags: 'Judicial Activism', 'Jurisprudence of the crippled oracle', Democratisation, India, Kenya, MacArthur Foundation, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

The big question in the 53 page PDF text (at least the one Intervention got) is the tricky question of what judicial activism brings or takes away from democracy/democratisation as the case... Read more

‘The Third Marx’: Review of Marcello Musto’s “The last years of Karl Marx”

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Collectivisation, Ernesto Laclau, India, Leninism, Marx, Post-Marxism, The Russian questionNo CommentsViews:

As usual with Milanovic’s essays, almost every sentence in this review is a seminar topic in its own, problematising Marx’s key texts all the way as against any tendency to consume suc... Read more