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How Gen Abdulsalami Mediation Team Barged on President Buhari Over Emir/Governor Tussle in Kano

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Emir of Kano, Light rail, Northern Elders Forum, Northern technocrats, Police AcademyNo CommentsViews:

No contact could confirm when exactly it happened but Intervention can report authoritatively that Northern technocrats concerned about the security and cultural implications of the long run... Read more

The Story of Dr. Maxwell Ukandu’s Trans-disciplinary PhD

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, Islam, Just War, PhD, Terrorism, UNN, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:

The story in the conferment of a doctorate degree on him is not just the fact of that PhD. The story is the topic he researched, something many prospective PhD students would not touch with... Read more

Social Science Academy of Nigeria Plans Conference on Inclusion, Security and Development

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, elite fragmentation, Hegemony, Science Academy of Nigeria, Security, SocialNo CommentsViews:

Inclusion and its impacts on security and development is the theme of the 2020 Annual Conference of the Social Science Academy of Nigeria, (SSAN). Scheduled for June 2020 in Abuja, the confe... Read more

Occupy the NASS If SP Won’t Explain Borrowing Epidemic – PRP

Posted By: adminon: December 20, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Egypt, IGR, Kaduna State Government, Occupy Movement, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

Occupy politics may have arrived big time in Nigeria at last. The People’s Redemption Party, (PRP) is urging Nigerians to occupy the National Assembly should the Senate President and the Sen... Read more

Violence Flares Up in Benue State Again

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, Benue killings, Makurdi-Otukpo-Enugu Highway, Otukpo, TarakuNo CommentsViews:

The spectre of violence which has haunted Benue State since the herdsmen attack on Agatu in early 2016 is not over yet as violence has been reported between the Taraku and Otukpo communities... Read more

Nigeria’s DSS Draws Zero Rating Over Sowore

Posted By: adminon: December 06, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: #RevolutionNow, DSS, Gen Sani Abacha, Omoyele SoworeNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria’s Directorate of State Security, (DSS) remains the all time subject of analysis in the public sphere for turning security into a stage performance in trying to re-arrest Omoyele Sowo... Read more

Drop Death Penalty on Hate Speech and Face More Critical Issues Affecting Nigerians – CITAD Tells Senate

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: CITAD, Death Penalty, Hate Speech, MacArthur Foundation, Senator Bala Ibn Na'AllahNo CommentsViews:

The adventure of the Nigerian Senate to impose death penalty on Hate Speech has suffered a solidarity casualty from the leading anti-Hate Speech campaigner in Nigeria – the Centre for Inform... Read more

Explosive Hate Speeches Threatening Bayelsa Polls, Says CITAD

Posted By: adminon: October 23, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: APC, Bayelsa State, Kenya, NDI, PDP, RwandaNo CommentsViews:

The volume of especially online hate speeches by followers of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) could undermine the peaceful conduct of the electi... Read more

Africa’s New Leaders and What Did They Do Right? Reconciliation

Posted By: adminon: October 14, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Africa's first Smartphones, Nobel Peace Prize, ReconciliationNo CommentsViews:

You might not like them for whatever reasons but, today, they are the African leaders. They are the African signifiers of the values which the world says it holds dear today. One of such val... Read more

Can the DSS Calm Down?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: 'War of All Against All', CIA, DSS, Gen Yakubu Gowon2 CommentsViews:

Is it possible that the DSS might also be insensitive to its own institutional image as to get involved in the turbulent politics of meaning? It is true that, at the end of the day, intellig... Read more