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The Genealogy That Does Not Inherit A Civilisational Verdict on Ochonu’s Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: June 29, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Colonialism, Dan Fodio, Fodiawa jihad, Genealogy, Kanem Bornu, Mutumin Kiriki, Northern Nigeria, Sokoto Caliphate, ‘Islam only’No CommentsViews:
The Genealogy That Does Not Inherit A Civilisational Verdict on Ochonu’s Boko Haram

Introducing a Series A book is as good as what its readers, particularly reviewers and critics, make of it. For, in the Roland Barthes’ wilderness, the author ‘dies’ as soon as s/he is done... 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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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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The Significance of NEPU in the History of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 27, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Ibadan General Conference, Mahaukata, NA system, NCNC, NEPA-NEPU, Northern Nigeria, Sawaba Declaration, TalakawaNo CommentsViews:
The Significance of NEPU in the History of Nigeria

By Prof Alkasum Abba Introduction There is no befitting tribute to Mallam Magaji Danbatta, than digging and bringing out the important role that he and his colleagues played in fighting for... Read more

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Gov Muftwang, Others Task Prof Chris Kwaja @ Birthday!

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Governor Caleb Muftwang, Modibbo Adama University – Yola, Northern Nigeria, PEACE, Plateau State, USIPNo CommentsViews:
Gov Muftwang, Others Task Prof Chris Kwaja @ Birthday!

The name rings a bell here and there although the core of the message of the bell is awaiting consolidation. That is probably because Prof Chris Kwaja is still highly distributed into academ... Read more

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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:
2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

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

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In Praise of Kano, the Hope and Glory of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Melting pot', Egypt, England, Germany, Kano City, Mali, Northern Nigeria, Senegal, SudanNo CommentsViews:
In Praise of Kano, the Hope and Glory of Nigeria

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Nigeria and West Africa owe so much to Kano. I write to celebrate Kano in the panegyric to this ancient city in the heart of the Central Sudan. I praise the peace a... Read more

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Farewell to Emmanuel Yawe

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 1983 Coup, ACF, Alhaji Abba Dabo, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, ALSCON, Bala Usman group of scholars, Journalism, Middle – Belt, New Nigerian Newspapers, NIGERIA, Northern Christians and Muslims, Northern Nigeria, OICNo CommentsViews:
Farewell to Emmanuel Yawe

By Adagbo ONOJA Each time Intervention decides to stop featuring news of deaths, such is always when someone close to it dies. This is the case of the late Emmanuel Yawe who reportedly died... Read more

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Bauchi Becomes First State in the North to Get Kudos for Managing COVID-19

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospita Isolation Centre, Northern NigeriaNo CommentsViews:
Bauchi Becomes First State in the North to Get Kudos for Managing COVID-19

Bauchi State Government has become the first to be given a positive rating in managing COVID-19 in the Northern part of the country. The Almajiri crisis in the region and other manifestation... Read more

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Flashback to the ‘Oil in the North’ Question in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2019In: GovernanceTags: American Shale, Benue Through, Bida, Chad Basin, ECOMOG, ECOWAS, NNPC, Northern Nigeria, OIL, Petronas, SokotoNo CommentsViews:
Flashback to the 'Oil in the North' Question in Nigeria

In 2016 when the Buhari regime made search for oil in the Northern part of Nigeria a priority, Intervention asked selected experts whether Northern Nigeria need oil. In the two-part report t... Read more

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