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The State of the Anti-Corruption Policy and Practice in Nigeria: A Political Scientist’s Approach

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, Chapter II of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, Code of Conduct Bureau, Democratic development, EFCC, Human Rights Commission, ICPC, INEC, the Public Complaints CommissionNo CommentsViews:

By Prof L. Adele Jinadu 1: Points of Departure The problem of corruption in Nigeria is fundamentally a problem of democratic political governance and has to be approached as such in view of... Read more

On Sokoto State Governor’s Clampdown on His Critic, Hamdiyya Cidi Sherif

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Disease, Drug abuse, Governor Dan Alu, Ignorance, insecurity, Jasiri Channels on YouTube, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Sokoto StateNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature Before the debut of the video in which she criticised Ahmed Ali Dan Alu, the governor of Sokoto State, the 18-year-old Hamdiya Cidi Sherif was an obscure local Tik Tok villag... Read more

Intervention is Here to Stay

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Discursive power, Holidays, Intervention, Re-making, Social collapseNo CommentsViews:

Many thanks to all yee who have complained or expressed worry that no new postings have appeared on Intervention in the past few weeks. May we, however, categorically inform that the platfor... Read more

World War in 2025?

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Cold War, Europe, Kamala Harris, NATO, Republic of China, Taiwan, The Commission on U.S. National Defense Strategy, Trump, Vladimir Putin1 CommentViews:

A world of nuclear armed states automatically imply a world at permanent risk of a global confrontation. No sane person may press the nuclear button carelessly because of the elephantine sca... Read more

NPSA Lists 16 Areas of Concern, 19 Recommendations on Aftermath of August Mass Protests in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: DEMOCRACY, hunger, NPSA, President Bola TinubuNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is worried by 16 clear areas regarding the August mass protests and is putting 19 recommendations on how these worries might be best dealt w... Read more

Could ‘They’ Talk Less Vis-à-vis the Management of the Protests, Please?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Atiku Abubakar, COAS, Coup. CDS, Hegemony, Machiavelli, The presidentNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The mention of a military coup anywhere, anytime can be unsettling. It is more so in Nigeria where the military intervention in politics has been a prolonged experience. Unde... Read more

Soyinka Hits @ Tinubu @ Last, Angry Over Violent, Colonial Tactics of Protest Control By Security Agents

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: #EndSARS, Hubert Ogunde, President Bola Tinubu, Security agencies, The Man Died, ‘Bread and Bullets’, “Yellow Vest”No CommentsViews:

Ahead of a heavily pregnant week in Nigeria, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is, at last, in a position to openly criticise President Tinubu and the subject matter over which Soyinka, otherwise... Read more

Nigeria Shut on Day One of People’s Power

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: #EndBadGovernance, Abuja, History-making, JAF, Kano, LAGOS, Oshogbo, President Bola Tinubu1 CommentViews:

Nigeria remained shut throughout on August 1st, 2024, the first of a 10-day popular action against bad governance. It marks the spilling over to the streets of deep fissures bordering on irr... Read more

6 More Hours To August 1st, 2024 Protests in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'Historic Block', Communist Party secretary, IGP Egbetokun, Latin America, Marxism, Politburo, Post-Cold War civil society, Radical populism, SGF George Akume, ‘Collective will’No CommentsViews:

It is a few hours to the start of the drama on August 1st, 2024. The expectation that Nigeria’s President Tinubu will make a major concession to the build-up against the regime before mid-ni... Read more

The Deeper National Security Implication in Targeting Dangote

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'Baby capitalists', Ajaokuta, ALSCON, Capitalist and territorial logic of state power, De-statisation, NEPA, State interventionNo CommentsViews:

Things are not going well for business magnate, Aliko Dangote. Dangote’s mega intervention in building a mega refinery is suddenly confronting unexpected tackles. The details are overf... Read more