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Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, BMMC, Captain Ibrahim Traore, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), FASS, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of Abuja, YBU1 CommentViews:

Switzerland based, Sierra Leone born Dr Yusuf Bangura, a former Political Science lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria does not like to hold grudges but neither does he want to whitewa... Read more

Memorialising Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Captain Ibrahim Traore, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of AbujaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja If it were when Nigeria was intellectually booming, allowing nothing the luxury of passing without being problematised, the death of Prof Sonni Tyoden would have been a bigge... Read more

Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, BOKO HARAM, Borno State, CORRUPTION, Neoliberal economic reforms, Post 9/11, Sovereignty, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:

By Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) “Governance … has been turned into a mad rush to empty the treasury for private use. This means the core business of governance has disappeared for decades, and the o... Read more

NALS Unpacks “The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa”

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Academic freedom, Africa, Dialogue series, NALSNo CommentsViews:

“The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa” is the subject matter the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NALS) is inviting all who care to bear witness to its unpacking Ma... Read more

NPSA Offers A Package of Actions on Reasserting Nigeria in the World

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Democracy in Nigeria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NPSA, People's Republic of China, US, west, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

Deeply disturbed by its own unpacking of how Nigeria looks on the global stage today, the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is putting on the table a set of ideas by which Nigeri... Read more

The Collapse of Power in Nigeria: Bring Back ECN

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ACE-SOAS study of the Nigerian power sector, Chief Bola Ige, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DISCOs, Egypt, Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Mode of privatisation of the Nigerian electricity sector, National Integrated Power Project, NEPA, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Vladimir LeninNo CommentsViews:

By Jibrin Ibrahim Earlier today, our neighbourhood, estates around Sun City, organised a protest at the AECD office that serves our area. It was good being on the stomp again. Due to advanci... Read more

26-Year Old John Okoh’s Death Leaves Mother and Community Disconsolate!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Ajide-Eke, Basic healthcare, Biopolitics, Football, Neoliberalism, Prof Olikoye Ransome Kuti, ReformNo CommentsViews:

So handsome and comely he could go away with murder. With superbly maintained haircut, he melted anger against himself if such ever arose. And, on top of it, he played football. So, he could... Read more

Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

Why Scrapping the BEA Foreign Scholarship is Regressive, Unjustified Betrayal of Nigeria’s National Vision and Global Future

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: GovernanceTags: BEA, Canada’s Vanier, Germany’s DAAD, Global competitiveness, India’s National Overseas Scholarships, UK’s Chevening, USA’s FulbrightNo CommentsViews:

By Sanusi A. S. Maikudi The Federal Government’s decision to cancel the Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship scheme—announced by the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa—... Read more