In this piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura, a co-editor of a book on selected works of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim provides a foretaste of the broth. Those who have had the privilege of reading this text elsew... Read more
Title: Ethnic Profiling and the Challenges of Inclusion in Nigeria: A Survey of the Literature Author: Ibrahim Muazzam Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Pages: 139 The tyr... Read more
By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more
Age and nasty experiences in the recent past are not slowing down Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the Kenyan writer. He is still taking the fight to Africa’s conquerors, this time revisiting his insistenc... Read more
By Morufu Omigbule The latest in the series of verbal assault against the Ooni is the much publicised manner of exchange of greetings between the Ooni and the popular Nollywood star, Chief P... Read more
Babachir Lawal, the author of this piece below, did not send it to Intervention. Someone else did with a request that it be published, not in agreement or disagreement with the author but fo... Read more
Freetown, one of Africa’s most symbolic capital cities, is 230 years old and it is not missing using the anniversary as an opportunity to flaunt its survival in history, with particula... Read more
By Mike Kebonkwu Esq I saw a sarcastic post on my wall, one of those mischievous posts, that ‘Nigeria is 61 years old and has reached the age of retirement’. Even though I am not exactly a... Read more
By Mike Kebonkwu Esq My friend, Mr Adagbo Onoja, himself an activist, a Don and publisher, dubbed an earlier view of mine on unbundling Nigeria as a ‘pessimist’s manifesto’. I almost laughed... Read more
Nigeria continues to be a contested national project, with optimists and pessimists articulating their arguments every now and then on why each’s position is the correct one. This piece whic... Read more
