The invitation to the event which somehow found its way to Intervention has it that it is a lunch and a Roundtable on M. M. Yusif’s Retirement at which the topic for discussion would be “Rem... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki This piece is still on Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, CON, FNSE, mni, of Borno State but on the question of deployment of power to resolve existential crisis. One... Read more
All is set for a new set of ambassadors, High Commissioners, Consuls-General and Chargé D’affaires (CDA) of Nigeria to over one hundred countries. The process is commencing with the re... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, CON, FNSE, mni, presents an interesting subject for the behavioural scientist. His restlessness in getting things done should neces... Read more
By Kate Ng Kate Ng, ex- writer with the UK’s The Independent (this is her last piece there but there is yet no idea where she is bursting upon next) has raised an issue that is sure to be a... Read more
For a country such as Nigeria where “Nigeriens are not aliens in Nigeria” was the title of the memorable pan-regional essay by the late Dr Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Historian and former ASUU Pre... Read more
Blame the headline on the Sec 26 (the 2004 set of participants at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS). But for them, the unwritten law is that Comrade John Odah... Read more
BRICS is in the news this week. For a long time to come, it will be in the news, more so for Africa. As the most unintended biting critique of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ paradigm, the idea... Read more
Nigerians are believed to have been shocked beyond shockability in their encounter with nation building. But even then the set of members of the NYSC somewhere in the country who didn’... Read more





















