American artist, Orson Scott Card, must be right to submit that “…there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.” Alth... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more
Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Eminent scholar and activist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu is harvesting appellations across the world a day after his demise. Bits and pieces available to Intervention indicated... Read more
It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more
The public presentation later today of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy presents an... Read more
Many would find it difficult to, on the face of it, make a connection between the twosome. But there are many things that connects them, separated as they seem by career line, location and c... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki The author, a former Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York and a product of the ‘Zaria School of History’ and its nationalist... Read more
Dr. Philip Akpen’s book, Infrastructures and Urban Amenities in Colonial Northern Nigeria is an additionally interesting book, coming after Historians are still not sure if there is History... Read more
Officially, he died of Hepatitis B infection. That is what our stethoscope wielding friends would say. They could be right but such a verdict doesn’t tell us the context in which an infectio... Read more
