Muslims Archives - Intervention

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

On Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar 111 @ 66

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Centre of gravity, Christianisation, Christians, Mallam Aminu Kano, Muslims, NEPU, Prof Dahiru Yahya, Prof Nur Alkali, Prof. Ahmadu Jalingo, Sir Ahmadu Bello, TSMNo CommentsViews:

Post-independence Nigeria has been so defined by inter-group acrimony as to have left individuals and groups with terrible enemy images of the other persons and groups. The dynamics of the p... Read more

Anticipating 2023

Posted By: adminon: June 27, 2022In: GovernanceTags: APC, Christians, Labour Party, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Muslims, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq Sure as death, the year 2023 must come. That is for those that will be alive, given the commonality of death in the country today. The general elections will also hold... Read more

What Might Bongos Ikwue Be Thinking About Nigeria @ His Birthday Today?

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2021In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Christians, Ella Kunaga, Greek, Michel Foucault, Middle – Belt, Muslims, OtukpoNo CommentsViews:

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

Wulu, Wulu & Idoma Iconography in Bongos Ikwue’s Music

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, African, Bongos Ikwue, British, Christians, Ella Kunaga, French, Greek, IDOMA, Michel Foucault, Middle – Belt, Muslims, NIGERIA, OtukpoNo CommentsViews:

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

Islamizing Nigeria: The Sultan Versus Prof Ben Nwabueze

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Abuja, Bayelsa State, Christians, Emir, Ife, Kaduna State, Kano State, Lagos State, Muslims, Ooni, Professor Ben Nwabueze, Sokoto State, Sultan, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

It could almost be predicted that such a squaring up would come. Professor Ben Nwabueze had made the claim one more time too many and someone was bound to ask for the evidence of Islamisatio... Read more

Five megachanges that could transform the world

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AfD, Amsterdam, Andrew McAfee, Asia, Boston, Brexit, Cape Town, Carl Frey, D.C, Ellen Stofan, Erik Brynjolfsson, Europe, Hong Kong, Iran, ISIS, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Michael Osborn, Middle East, Muslims, NASA, New York City, North Africa, Poland, RBC, Russia, San Francisco, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Sweden, Tokyo, Trumpism, U.S, Venice, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Darrel West Large-scale change is transforming the world. Many of the beliefs and institutions that used to anchor international and domestic affairs have grown weak. Political and econom... Read more

Unpacking Nigeria’s More Conflict Management Training, More Conflicts Paradox, Part 2

Posted By: adminon: September 06, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ASCON, CEPACS, Christians, DFID, Dr Ojiji, Dr Tukur Baba, Dr Tunde Akanni, EU, Ibadan, IPCR, Jos, Kogi, LAGOS, Muslims, Nsukka, Sokoto, UN, ZariaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The first part of this Special Report titled “Nigeria: Why the More Conflict Management Training, the More Conflicts? Part 1” featured Professor Oshita Oshita, the Director G... Read more