She wasn’t there but she was there. That is Leah Sharibu, the 16 year old school girl who is now more than a year in captivity of Boko Haram insurgents. She was the subject of the 5th Annive... Read more
Nigerian undergraduates participating in two essay competitions thrown open to them by the Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development, (CITAD) are dodging one of the essays... Read more
It is 5 years today Boko Haram insurgents abducted over 200 girls from a boarding school in Borno State, released about half of them subsequently, leaving basically another half in their... Read more
There is widespread fear that Mallam Aminu Kano, sage of the ‘radical tradition in the North’ must be turning in his grave that the idea of ‘who is his father?’ as a... Read more
Already published elsewhere under the title “Political Analysis: 2019 Elections And The Remaking Of The Nigerian Project”, this piece is republished here on its reception @ Intervention for... Read more
The Sudanese military, it seems, came to a cost benefit analysis that it is not justifiable killing many people for the sake of keeping Omar al-Bashir in power, someone who has been there fo... Read more
It qualifies to be called a landmark judgment. That is the February 26th, 2019 judgment by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s Court of Justice which held the Nigerian f... Read more
Intervention would hold the record of reference to this document, especially the section of it that argued against the privileging of indegeneity or the refusal to follow it and hence the vi... Read more
It has been a week of different strokes of Africa’s nightmare of a life. While it came in the form of reflective mourning and a defiant ‘Never Again’ in Rwanda 25 years aft... Read more
A time of horrendous violence and crises as in contemporary Nigeria is usually a time when theories flourish and by which intellectuals sing a new and better world into being. It might be in... Read more
