“Democracy, the world over, faces intractable challenges that threaten the fundamental freedoms and the promise of development that were once considered the key signposts of democracy. In Af... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki This essay intends to assess the current leadership in Borno State of Nigeria, where unsettling events have been going on for twelve years or so, which when applied... Read more
The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) appears set to reverse the historical trend whereby members of the intelligentsia who operate in the spaces for articulating the Niger... Read more
An African social critic, Ahmed Olayinka Sule, is on the neck of the London based weekly, The Economist for its insinuations of deficit reporting of Covid-19 figures on the continent. This i... Read more
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
