De-Escalation | Intervention

Senate Cmttee on Police Affairs to De-escalate NPF-PSC Fray Over Recruitment

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Muhammadu Buhari, NPF, PSC, Recruitment, Senate Cmttee on Police AffairsNo CommentsViews:

The raging controversy between the Nigeria Police Force and the Police Service Commission (PSC) over the last batch of recruitment of 10, 000 constables has attracted the attention of the Se... Read more

Amb Ahmed Mallamadori, A Senate Committee Chairman’s ‘Baptism of Fire’ As Police Pensioners Protest

Posted By: adminon: May 21, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, NASS, Police pensioners, Security, Senate Committee on Police Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Yunus AkintundeNo CommentsViews:

Signal of ‘fire on the mountain’ came early to Senator Ahmed Abdulhamid Mallamadori on Tuesday morning (May 21st, 2024). A National Assembly top shot was the caller. He was alerting the Sena... Read more

ARDP Fires an Open Memo to 19 Northern Governors, Calls for Re-invention of Governance

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Civil society, Community involvement, Education, Infrastructure, Job creation initiatives, Joint Security Initiatives, Regional cooperation, Security reforms, UnemploymentNo CommentsViews:

Barely a week after a set of activists fired a warning note to President Tinubu and NASS leaders against Nigeria playing host to American and French military bases, a similar letter is landi... Read more

Setting Eleven Benchmarks for Enhanced Security and National Unity in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Anarchy, Federalism, Herder- farmer crisis, Marginalisation, Military, Nigerian State, Public corruption, State Centric Security provisioning, Ungoverned spaces, Universal Primary EducationNo CommentsViews:

By Professor Jibrin Ibrahim “There is no easy way to pull this country apart. The problems arising from such an exercise will be far bigger than the problem of trying to keep it going. The v... Read more

The Israel-Iran Crisis: A Chance to Step Back from the Brink

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Beijing, Deterrence, Hamas, Hizbollah, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Operation True Promise, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:

By International Crisis Group There is some careful balancing in this statement that makes it a more attractive intervention than that of those who are either parroting Israel’s invincibilit... Read more

Prof Jibrin Ibrahim to Set Benchmarks for Enhanced Security and National Unity April 16th, 2024

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'Everywhere War', ABU Zaria, Intelligence, Military, NIGERIA, ‘Predator Empire’No CommentsViews:

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria is providing the platform for a potentially explosive entry into national security analysis. On April 16th, Nigeria’s Prof Jibrin Ibrahim will be de... Read more

The ‘Democratisation of Asymmetry’

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Airpower, Arms trade, Attrition, Houthis, Iran, Red Sea, Russia, Sahel, Wagner PMCNo CommentsViews:

Ukraine and Gaza are holding the world in rapt attention as sites of war to determine global primacy. But the piece below from The Loop published by the European Consortium for Political Res... Read more

CDD-West Africa Calls for Independent, Exhaustive Investigation Of Okuama, Igbomotoru Violence

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Bayelsa State, Delta State, Igbomotoru, Military high command, Odi, Okuama, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:

Amidst disorienting violence against troops and gory stories of reprisal attacks on communities in Okuama and Igbomotoru communities in Delta and Bayelsa States in Nigeria, the Center for De... Read more

President Tinubu’s Populist Escape Route from Niger – Mali – B/Faso – Guinea Diplomatic Misadventure

Posted By: adminon: February 24, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Anti-imperialism, Burkina Faso, Culture, ECOWAS, Emotions, Foreign powers, History, Language, Mali, Memories, National interest, National security, Niger Republic, Power, Psychoanalysis, Russia, Songhai Empire, Sovereignty, WARNo CommentsViews:

The doctrine of ‘news following the flag’ compels the contribution of whoever is in a position to do so towards a sharp course-correction away from what has clearly been a major... Read more

Locals Block Enugu – Otukpo Road All Day Over Herder – Farmer War in Agatu

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu/Adoka, Benue State, Strategic Studies, ‘IdomaLivesMatter’No CommentsViews:

Self-help assumed a total blocking of the Enugu – Otukpo highway at Gbokpo in Apa Local Government Council of Benue State for much of today (February 12th, 2024). A video sent to Interventio... Read more