August 06, 2026
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Intervention Intervention
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Menu
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
loading...
Storylines
  • A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday
  • Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections
  • Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 
  • Strategically Reading Beijing’s Mindset in China’s Blue Book Series
  • Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80
  • A Hilarious Touch to Elder Jonah David Jang @ 80
  • Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Empowerment Push for Creative Writers in Abuja Schools
  • Isn’t Nigeria Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea in 2027?
  • Rethinking Nigeria’s Security Architecture Through the State Police Debate
  • Why an Abuja Symposium in Honour of Dr Segun Osoba?
Home WHO

Fear of Epidemic Grips Opialu Community As Reddish, Wormy Parasites(?) Spread Over Its Section of River Ogbadibo in Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Akpodo, Benue State, Cholera, Community health intelligence, Gammalin-20, Historical vulnerability, OCDA, Okpokwu LGA, Opialu, River Ogbadibo, River Ogege, River Okpokwu, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:
Fear of Epidemic Grips Opialu Community As Reddish, Wormy Parasites(?) Spread Over Its Section of River Ogbadibo in Nigeria’s Benue State

37 years after a horrific cholera outbreak in the Opialu community in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Benue State, it is under siege again from an unknown parasites(?). Opialu, a... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Goodbye to HIV?

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Gilead sciences, HIV, Len LA, PrEp, WHONo CommentsViews:
Goodbye to HIV?

HIV is the classic success story global health governance claims. Yet, the world has not be able to say goodbye to the virus. But in what looks like a case of better late than never, it look... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Towards a Nigerian Model of Quick (Malaria) Vaccine Delivery to Remote Villages

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2024In: SpectacleTags: HPV, Immunisation, Malaria, Mercury Project, Sierra Leoneans, UNICEF, Vaccination, WHONo CommentsViews:
Towards a Nigerian Model of Quick (Malaria) Vaccine Delivery to Remote Villages

The concern of the authors of this piece was management of Covid-19. Intervention is more concerned with malaria in the rural areas where there are no doctors. Although the local governments... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

A Visit To A Flower Farm in Kenya

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2023In: GovernanceTags: A Black Rose, Amsterdam, Kenyans, Picking of flowers, WHONo CommentsViews:
A Visit To A Flower Farm in Kenya

By Dr Yusuf Bangura We enjoyed a very educative, guided tour of one of Kenya’s flourishing flower growing and processing farms in Naivasha during a recent trip there. This is a huge farm are... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Nigeria Insists On Urgent WHO Listing of Noma on Its NTD

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Dakar, MSF, NIGERIA, Noma, NTD, Sokoto, Tropics, WHONo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Insists On Urgent WHO Listing of Noma on Its NTD

Nigeria is plugging into global health governance with the case for the declaration of Noma disease as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ni... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Bushmeat, CHINA, COVID-19, Disease X, Ebola, RCCE, WHONo CommentsViews:
Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Rising Up to Severe Acute Malnutrition, (SAM)

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2022In: GovernanceTags: CORRUPTION, SAM, SDGs, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:
Rising Up to Severe Acute Malnutrition, (SAM)

By The Woman Today* (SAM) is a killer that must be stopped and banished to the annals of history. This killer ignored by successive governments of Nigeria, SAM results from the absence or sh... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Welcoming Some 2021 Survivors of Covid-19 to 2022

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2022In: FlashbackTags: 'Last born', WHO, WIN, WINnerNo CommentsViews:
Welcoming Some 2021 Survivors of Covid-19 to 2022

It is still not too late welcoming known survivors of Covid-19 in 2021 to 2022. Doing so is considered important partly because Covid-19 established itself in Nigeria as the most no-nonsense... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, COVID-19, Cuba, Intellectual property rights, US, WHONo CommentsViews:
Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

But for the EU, Africa Would Have Stabbed Her Own for WHO Job?

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: African agency, CHINA, COVID-19, EU, US, WHONo CommentsViews:
But for the EU, Africa Would Have Stabbed Her Own for WHO Job?

But for the European Union, (EU), Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus would not have been renominated for another term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation, (WHO). Reut... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0
123

Recent Posts

A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday
A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

August 03, 2026
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections

August 03, 2026
Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 
Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 

Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 

August 02, 2026
Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series
Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series

Strategically Reading Beijing’s Mindset in China’s Blue Book Series

August 02, 2026
Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80
Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

July 31, 2026

Intervention Timeline

My Tweets

Posts In Pictures

  • Intervention is Back from a Weeklong Breakdown
  • So, How Come Africa is Still Relatively Free of Coronavirus?
  • British takeover of Africa’s key natural resources
  • Intervention Gets Rejoinder on Mallam Adamu Ciroma
  • Who is Afraid of Putting Out the Fire Between Israelis and the Palestinians?
  • Ignorance, Political Irrelevance and the Persistent Quest for Restructuring the Nigerian Polity, 1999-2021
  • Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4x400 Men’s Relay
  • What Cadres, Others Said @ Eddy Madunagu’s 80th Birthday
  • UNIJOS Political Science Unfolds Book on IRs and Democratic Governance in Nigeria
  • Awe, Weeping and Prayers Greet Kidnap of Elderly Woman in Remote Opialu in Okpokwu LGA of Benue State
  • Participants Clash Over Anti-African Immigrants Violence in South Africa at CDD's 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria (1)
  • Updated: Except for Auwal Ibrahim and Jim Nwobodo, Lateef Jakande Ends an Era in Nigeria

Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline

Info

Office Address: Suite 4, Abuja Shopping Complex, Area 3, Garki-Abuja

Phone:
+2348133033042

(c) 2017-19 Intervention.ng

  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Desktop Version Mobile Version