By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Prof. Jonah Elaigwu, 76, is one of our elders in the field of Political Science. He obtained his B.Sc in Political Science in 1971 from the Ahmadu Bello University, Z... Read more
By Prof Hassan Saliu The news of the death of Prof. Aja Kpuru-Aja on the 16th of March, 2024 came to me as a rude shock because I never heard of him being indisposed prior to his death. Alth... Read more
By Edwin Naidu Professor Achille Mbembe’s person, scholarship and administrative politics may not be what everyone accepts but very few would be surprised that the Johannesburg based Africa... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more
The Centre for Democracy and Development – West Africa (CDD-WA) has formally announced the appointment of Cde John Odah as Chairman of its International Governing Council. The change comes a... Read more
Amnesty International – Nigeria is on an infographic warpath against security agencies with a table of abduction of school girls that suggests that security provisioning is on a Leave of Abs... Read more
Intervention has no formal relationship with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex in the UK. The platform, however, assumes that IDS would wish that its Bul... Read more
It is about time someone in Nigeria takes on the concept of power in the international system and, by implication, in Political Science. And who might do this better than Prof Irene Pogoson?... Read more
Intervention cannot call her death the end of an era because the Adulugba family in Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State is too vast for that to be the case. But,... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA Language, (or is it meaning-making?) is all that we have. Those who find it difficult to come to terms with this allege that the ‘linguistic turn’ in analytical philosophy i... Read more
