Flashback to Coolum in Australia in February 2002 where the Commonwealth Heads of Government were meeting. There were tricycles everywhere, transporting even the presidents, prime ministers,... Read more
15 years after it was warned of the CNNising and Coca-colanising impacts of globalisation, the Idoma intelligentsia has tasked itself with a programme of writing Idoma. In other words, they... Read more
Ambassador Usman Sarki, a prolific analyst and a regular contributor to Intervention was at ‘home’ when Borno State governor, Prof Babagana Zulum presented his 2022 budget. In this piece, th... 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 Achieving excellence in all human endeavors is a perpetual effort that requires diligence, application and reiterated actions towards the desired outcome. Applied t... Read more
Nigeria can be considered the world headquarter of paradoxes. Too many things are going wrong but, amidst the nightmare, many good things are also happening. However one sees it, making a tw... Read more
By Tunde Akanni, PhD “It’s da bomb”, yes, “da bomb”, I mean what Davido did with his popular ‘joke’ recently. No known joke has been louder. He called out friends for donations for what thos... Read more
No one can guestimate what the degree of damage to Obasanjo’s standing Thabo Mbeki’s disclosure of Obasanjo’s complicity in the ‘third term’ agenda would be if the disclosure had come earlie... Read more
Is it the case that the social media has displaced the traditional, (print, radio and television) in terms of what people read and what then sets the agenda? This is what Mr. Isaac Umunna, t... Read more
The cover picture has written the story, all by itself. It is a pleasurable, even if risky response to the stressful and incomplete modernisation across Africa. There are no roads, especiall... Read more
