Intervention has done several stories on Bongos Ikwue, the Nigerian engineering student who turned musician and made a success of it between the late 1960s and his late 70s today. In October... Read more
The past week saw several confusing signals from the Nigerian elite, signals that have ominous significance than were previously the case. It was the week or so that there was a hefty handsh... Read more
A leading Nigerian intellectual and radical activist, Dr. Yima Sen, is dead. He died about 5 pm Tuesday evening, October 6th, 2020 at Garki Hospital in Abuja. Until his death, he was a senio... Read more
The number of sites where this article by Nigerian columnist, Simon Kolawole, was circulated a few days back suggested that it must be redundant to republish it when Intervention chose to de... Read more
“Great, Dark Day in Benue Politics As Ortom Wins @ Appeal Court” may not be such a terrible headline in writing the story of Governor Samuel Ortom’s victory earlier today at the Appeal Court... Read more
It is difficult to write about burial of women/mothers in Idomaland without being essentialist about it. From Ekiti or Oyo State in the Southwest of Nigeria to Jigawa or Katsina State in the... Read more
This accident is no longer news. All the details about it are already everywhere on Facebook. It happened on September 15th, 2019 and the dead have already been buried. Some people may even... Read more
Emergency alarms are ringing on the social media hinting that Michika town in Adamawa State of Nigeria has come under attack by Boko Haram. The alert is asking social media platforms to publ... Read more
“We appeal to all separatist agitators to allow the restructuring initiatives to run its full course. We need to stay and work together to ensure that new leadership that can make Nigeria gr... Read more
Bongos Ikwue is about complexity, about fluidity and about the impossibility or uselessness of classification. You cannot be charged for calling him a musician because he makes music and mus... Read more
