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Storylines

How Lanre Arogundade Broke Coconut With His Head As NANS Leader in the 1980s
10th NASS’s Critical Constitutional Conversation in Kano
Strategising on Instrumentalising Social Protection to Save West Africa From Climate Change at the OTUWA-DTDA’s Abuja Regional Workshop
A Blast from the Past in the Magazine Journalism of Nigeria’s ‘The Analyst’
Enduring Traditions, Bumpy Roads: The Struggle to Reach Kaama for the 2024 Gani Festival
Vatican’s 2nd Session of Synod on Synodality: A Historic Gathering on the Future of the Catholic Church
They know I know Everything – Robert Bourgi’s Tales of French Rape of Africa
Scientists Demand Better Climate Research in Africa Just As Trinity College Defends New Chair on Climate Change
Professor Marietu Ohunene Tenuche, the Amazon, is a year older
What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Power Game

Deadly Combat Between Local and Herders Militia Over Agatu Leaves 4 Dead

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, AK 47, AMG, BPG, Dane gunNo CommentsViews:

The hub of herder-farmer battle for supremacy across Nigeria may be shifting to Idomaland in Benue State where four Idoma youths were killed Saturday in an encounter between them and herders... Read more

Quite Literally, China Builds While America Bombs, And This Study Proves It

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Beijing, CEPR, DOD, George Orwell, Manufacturing superpower, Paul Krugman, PEACE, WAR, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

The world is becoming more and more interesting even as it is becoming more and more dangerous, whether you are in the metropolis or in the hamlet. Just as in an earlier story in Interventio... Read more

Puzzles Over 2nd Week of Detention of Nasarawa Women Protesters

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: CLO, CPC, FIR, Gender movement, human rights activists, Nasarawa State, ‘Holding Charge’No CommentsViews:

It doesn’t appear to have hit the ears of the human rights activists, more politically educated lawyers and the broader civil society in Nigeria. They are the constituencies more likely to m... Read more

Confusion Over Casualties in Agatu Violence

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, farmers, Herders, Okokolo, Wet landNo CommentsViews:

The military took control of Agatu area which has been the theatre of violence since yesterday morning. Eye witnesses confirmed seeing a convoy of soldiers, police and other security personn... Read more

Violence Breaks Out in Agatu, Benue State, Again

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, Benue State, EU foreign and security policy, Ex-governor Samuel Ortom, Fulani, Global food chains, Herders, Indigenes, Nigerian cows, Nigerian State, Ranches, Settlers, The Police, Vice-Admiral Murtala NyakoNo CommentsViews:

Violence is understood to have broken out in Agatu in Benue State between persons suspected to be herders and locals. Unconfirmed reports said there have been sporadic shooting across river... Read more

The Bull Plateau Killings Compel Nigeria to Take By the Horns

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Eastern Europe, Elite escapism, Emir of Katsina, Governor Muftwang, Industrialisation, Jassawa versus Jankassa, Land in itself, Lenin, Mercenaries, Middle – Belt, Regulatory agencies, Sabon-GariNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There is an angle to resolving the phenomenon characterised by violence on the Plateau that has, however, not featured in the discursive formation around the latest round of... Read more

Benue State Deputy-Governor Botches Resignation Plan, Recants

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Chief Solomon Lar, Deputy-Governor of Benue State, General T. Y. Danjuma, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Gowon, Institutionalism, Middle – Belt, NATO, NCDC, Plateau killings, Senator George Akume, Tiv- Idoma relationsNo CommentsViews:

There is an anti-climax to the planned resignation of the Deputy-Governor of Benue State, Dr. Sam Ode. Instead of resigning as planned during the week, Dr Ode turned up at what was called a... Read more

Plateau Governor, Muftwang, Goes Blunt, Puts Blame on FG Security Practice

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Barkin Ladi, Bokkos, Buhari Presidency, Inspector General of Police, Land, TerrorismNo CommentsViews:

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State is putting the blame for cycle of violence in the state on Federal Government security practice, particularly what he calls “lack of political will”.... Read more

Northern Senators Take Strong Stand Against Christmas Eve Plateau Killing

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Comprehensive investigation, FG, National security establishment, Northern Senators ForumNo CommentsViews:

The Northern Senators Forum (NOSEF) at the 10th National Assembly has taken a categorically disapproving position against the latest wave of killings in Plateau State, calling it ‘recent tra... Read more

Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Bala Usman, Benue State, Herdsmen violence, Islamisation, Middle Belt elite, Okwudiba Nnoli, Plateau State, Politicisation of security, Security architecture, Southern Kaduna, State failure, State policeNo CommentsViews:

Just as there is to be a sigh of relief about killings especially in Benue State, Plateau and Southern Kaduna, then came the news of the killing of about 80 persons in Bokkos and Barakin Lad... Read more