Kano Archives - Intervention

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

CITAD On the Move

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Conglomerate, Dukawuya United FC, IT, Kano, Nigerian university system, PhilosophyNo CommentsViews:

In the days when it made sense to talk about the core of any reality, it would have been said that the core of the Kano-based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is the... Read more

On the 44th Anniversary of the Demise of Bala Mohammed

Posted By: adminon: July 11, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Differance, General Sani Abacha, Kano, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, North-South dichotomyNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Yesterday, July 10th, 2025 was the 44th anniversary of the murder of Dr Bala Mohammed. It happened at a time he was the Political Adviser to the then governor of the old Kan... Read more

D S Ibrahim Collapses Identity Fault Lines As Christians, Muslims, Others Converge @ His Burial in Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Christians, Danlami Samuel, Kano, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Muslims, Old North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Identity boundaries and fault lines collapsed temporarily earlier today as Nigeria lowered a barrier breaking elder. Christians, Muslims and others travelled to bear witness to the burial of... Read more

10th NASS’s Critical Constitutional Conversation in Kano

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 1999 Constitution, Chapter Two, Federalism, Gender equity, Kano, NASS, Rotation, State police, The economyNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The September 27th – 28th Retreat of the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution has come and gone. But it so fulfils the wisdom about a nation being an eve... Read more

Nigeria Shut on Day One of People’s Power

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: #EndBadGovernance, Abuja, History-making, JAF, Kano, LAGOS, Oshogbo, President Bola Tinubu1 CommentViews:

Nigeria remained shut throughout on August 1st, 2024, the first of a 10-day popular action against bad governance. It marks the spilling over to the streets of deep fissures bordering on irr... Read more

My Own Experience With Prof Bawa Hassan Gusau As His Tutee/Mentee

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Democratic governance, FUD-Dutse, Kano, ‘Senior PhD’No CommentsViews:

By Kabiru Gambo PhD This tribute is aimed at showing how excellent Professor Bawa was (and is) as a lecturer and mentor to students across all the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes t... Read more

2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: BookspaceTags: African Union Mock Summit, Kano, Northern Nigeria, Philosophy, UNESCO, WTO Mock SummitNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Musa Philosophy is a discipline that enhances the ability of the brain to think and conceptualize ideas, it arms us with the ability to explain difficult phenomena and eliminate amb... Read more

UN Compels Attention to Underdevelopment Crisis in Benue State of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Cassava economy, Child nutrition, Herders/farmers clashes, IDPs, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kano, LAGOS, RiversNo CommentsViews:

Less than a week ago, Intervention raised the centrality of elite reunion as a key condition for confronting the degree of underdevelopment in the Benue State. The platform thought and still... Read more

Homage to Alache Ode

Posted By: adminon: March 14, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'Japa', Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Aminu Tambuwal, Asiwaju Tinubu, Juliette Ukabiala, Kano, LAGOS, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, Sule Lamido, The Guardian, The Triumph Newspapers, ‘Distant witnessing’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The Facebook is a torturer. It is so because it is not every user who has no better use of it than splash all details there to affirm a disturbed and an insecure self. It sti... Read more