The Guardian Archives - Intervention

Homage to Alache Ode

Posted By: adminon: March 14, 2023In: LifeworldTags: '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

My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Lewis Obi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Concord, New Nigerian, NIIA, Popular culture, The Guardian, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:

A crisis of deadline makes it absolutely impossible for me to do justice to the ‘order’ that I elaborate on Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s A Farewell to Policy which I have been accused of over-rati... Read more

Reflecting on the 5th Anniversary of Intervention

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Cold War, The Guardian, Yhe EconomistNo CommentsViews:

Intervention was five years old last week. It was born early morning of July 26th, 2016. Memories are still wet of the little discussion sessions here and there on what the name should be, w... Read more

Black Day for Africa as Swiss Authorities Auction Equatorial Guinea Leader’s Seized 25 Supercars

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Brazillian Police, Equatorial Guinea, O Estado de Sao Paulo, The GuardianNo CommentsViews:

The debate would go on for a long time whether this is a case of confronting corruption cum profligacy in Africa from outside or that of giving a dog a bad name so as to justify its hanging.... Read more

CISLAC Demands Nationwide Action on PHCCs As Kano State Government Gets Rare Commendation

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Daily Trust, Dausara Primary Health Care Centre, The Guardian, UNICEFNo CommentsViews:

In a rare convergence of temperament, a civil society organisation has openly commended a state government in Nigeria for doing the right thing at the right time. Although many state governm... Read more

T Y Danjuma @ 80 (1 & 2): Confronting an Enigma Beyond Hagiography and the Last Duty

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2017In: LifeworldTags: CASS, General Gowon, Neoliberal reform, SAP, The Guardian, TINANo CommentsViews:

This page has been updated to embody part 1 and 2 of the two part piece on General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma unlike before when it was published in two separate parts and the second part was... Read more

Unbelievably Desperate World of Adjunct Professors in America

Posted By: adminon: October 02, 2017In: BookspaceTags: Alastair Gee, Julie Schmid, The GuardianNo CommentsViews:

Under its year-long focus on homelessness in the Western US, The Guardian (in the UK) provides a narrative of what some Adjunct professors in America resort to in response to a life of low p... Read more

Global Media (Mis) Representation of Africa: Is Martin Scott Bursting a Myth or Inventing Another?

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Africa Rising', Dr Martin Scott, Leeds University, Misrepresentation, New York Times, Olatunji Ogunyemi, Stanford University, The Economist, The Guardian, Toussaint Nothias, University of East AngliaNo CommentsViews:

Global Media (Mis) Representation of Africa: Is Martin Scott Bursting a Myth or Inventing Another? By Adagbo ONOJA In the context of the fear that an African protestation of misrepresentatio... Read more

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Army worms, Audu Ogbeh, Bandits, Egypt, Famine, Financial Times of London, Food crisis, Garba Shehu, International Strategic Studies Association, Kebbi, Lake Chad, Libya, Mali, Mercenaries, Migrants, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Saddam Hussein, Sudan, Terrorists, The Guardian, Toby LanzerNo CommentsViews:

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria? Nigeria has been inundated with alerts and alarms over risk of famine since September 2016. Is it the case that the best possible arrangements to... Read more