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Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity – Tradition Cord in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Apartheid, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chinua Achebe, Civil society, Covering law, Derrida, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Jigawa State, Latin America, Mallam Aminu Kano, Positivism, Toni Morrison, ‘Boka’, ‘Juju’, ‘Zanna Yuroma’No CommentsViews:
Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity - Tradition Cord in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more

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Won’t Amplifying the Prof Jibrin Ibrahim Story Produce A Calming Effect On the Northern Waters?

Posted By: adminon: December 02, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Class, Cross Rivers State, Gender, Generational, Jigawa State, Northern Nigeria, Regional, ReligiousNo CommentsViews:
Won’t Amplifying the Prof Jibrin Ibrahim Story Produce A Calming Effect On the Northern Waters?

By Adagbo Onoja Again, this is NOT signaling the end of Intervention‘s publishing holidays but a quick theft of time to simply put on record that a reflective exercise worthy of note t... Read more

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Senator Abdulhamid Ahmed Mallam-Madori’s Purposive Populism

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2025In: GovernanceTags: House of Representatives, Jigawa Northeast Senatorial District, Jigawa State, Kafin Hausa, Malam-Madori, Police Training Institute, Radical populism, Right-wing populism, SenateNo CommentsViews:
Senator Abdulhamid Ahmed Mallam-Madori's Purposive Populism

Populism is under attack throughout the world because of their parochialism and bigotry. But that’s right-wing populism. Nothing is wrong with radical or Left-wing populism, from Latin... Read more

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Sule Lamido and the Prize

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, APC, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Jigawa State, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, NEPU, Nigerian politics, Northern Nigeria, NPC, PDP, PRPNo CommentsViews:
Sule Lamido and the Prize

By Adagbo Onoja There has been a major made-in-Jigawa political pronouncement but a pronouncement which goes farther than Jigawa State to the defining issue areas in African politics, with p... Read more

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In Jigawa State of Nigeria, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad is Democracy’s Paradox

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, APC, Commissioner for Health, Jigawa State, MacArthur Foundation, Maternal mortality, Media Adviser, PDPNo CommentsViews:
In Jigawa State of Nigeria, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad is Democracy's Paradox

Intervention or, more appropriately, some people within it, ought to have known that Dr. Nurrudden Mohammed was contesting to be a Senator from Jigawa State of Nigeria. He did hint Intervent... Read more

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Prof Haruna Wakili As a Case Study in History, the Historian and Intellectual Honesty

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2020In: People in ActionTags: BUK, History, Jigawa State, Mambayya House, Ralph Waldo EmersonNo CommentsViews:
Prof Haruna Wakili As a Case Study in History, the Historian and Intellectual Honesty

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it” – Haruki Murakami By Kabiru Haruna Isa, (PhD) It was in January, 2020 when ASUU-Chairman, Bayero University, Kano (BUK) branch inf... Read more

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Open Letter to Gov Badaru Abubakar on the Camel Killing Spree on Jigawa Roads

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2020In: FlashbackTags: BOKO HARAM, FRSC, Jigawa State, Maigatari Border, Niger RepublicNo CommentsViews:
Open Letter to Gov Badaru Abubakar on the Camel Killing Spree on Jigawa Roads

Jigawa State has always had a volatile story of unregulated movement of herders. It came to a climax in 1995/6 when two District Heads lost their position after an inquiry by the military re... Read more

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Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and the Paradox of Power (1)

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2018In: People in ActionTags: EFCC, Emancipation, Frankfort School, Idoma Nokwu, Jigawa State, Kwararafa Empire, Nasarawa State, NPN, NPP, Power, PRP, Solomon Lar regimeNo CommentsViews:
Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and the Paradox of Power (1)

By Adagbo ONOJA Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, governor of Nasarawa State from 2007 to 2011 is dead and has been quietly buried in his place, Doma in Nasarawa State of Nigeria. At stake in this pie... Read more

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Hadiza Sule Lamido is Dead

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, Jigawa StateNo CommentsViews:
Hadiza Sule Lamido is Dead

Death has struck in Alhaji Sule Lamido’s houshold of Jigawa State. Lamido’s daughter by name Hadiza died earlier today in India. Not much details about the circumstances of her d... Read more

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More Trouble for Sule Lamido Over Local Government Elections in Jigawa State

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Badaru Abubakar, Bamaina, Jigawa State, Kano Police, Sule LamidoNo CommentsViews:
More Trouble for Sule Lamido Over Local Government Elections in Jigawa State

Scheduled local government elections in Jigawa State has escalated into the arrest of Alhaji Sule Lamido, immediate past governor of the state. The story of Lamido’s arrest broken by Premium... Read more

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If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

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Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic
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How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

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