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Nigerian Academics Engage Banditry, Ethnic Relations

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Banditry, Conflict, DEMOCRACY, Ethnic relations, NAL, UDU, UI, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

Although academia is generally accepted to have been on a downward spiral across Nigeria, the discursive space is bustling with sharp, inviting topics being handled by well-established names... Read more

Olua Min Igbomekun, Kabiesi o!

Posted By: adminon: June 28, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Culture, Igbo, Ooni Babatunde Adeyeye Akande Ogunwusi - Ojaja II, Punch, Shakespearean Prince Hal, Yoruba1 CommentViews:

By Morufu Omigbule The latest in the series of verbal assault against the Ooni is the much publicised manner of exchange of greetings between the Ooni and the popular Nollywood star, Chief P... Read more

Can the Nigerian Military Reply Asari Dokubo?

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Asari Dokubo, Niger Delta, Nigerian Armed Forces, President Bola Tinubu, Sudan, ‘Egungun’No CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq The Presidential Villa, the Aso Rock has turned to a Mecca of a sort since the swearing in of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with groups and individuals getting in there t... Read more

Nigeria Insists On Urgent WHO Listing of Noma on Its NTD

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Dakar, MSF, NIGERIA, Noma, NTD, Sokoto, Tropics, WHONo CommentsViews:

Nigeria is plugging into global health governance with the case for the declaration of Noma disease as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ni... Read more

Radicals Mobilising for Trouble With Tinubu Government in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Counter-language, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Energy price hike, HegemonyNo CommentsViews:

Might this be the calm before the storm in Nigeria? A major indication suggests that the activists might be warming up against the brand of capitalist direction President Bola Tinubu is pilo... Read more

The MetaTinubu Game and the Fuel Subsidy Decision

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Awoism, Claude Ake, Dangote, elite fragmentation, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, Fuel subsidy, Simulation, Stalinism, UPNNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There are Nigerians who must go beyond whether President Tinubu is a good or a bad phenomenon, Nigerians who must be more concerned with managing the phenomenon in such a way... Read more

Memories of the National Solidarity on the 1986 Ango-Must-Go Crisis

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Abacha, Babangida, Emma Ezeazu, Muhammadu Buhari, OBASANJO, University of Ife, University of LagosNo CommentsViews:

By Ahmed Aminu Ramatu YUSUF The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Ango-Must-Go protest of May 22-23, 1986, led to the shooting, raping and killing of students and other citizens by poli... Read more

Three Years On from George Floyd’s Murder. What Have We Learned?

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Barack Obama, Bilateral donors, Bond, George Floyd, Global South, INGOs, Power, Racism, Think tanksNo CommentsViews:

By Dylan Mathews (Dylan wrote the piece for UK based Bond) Today marks three years since the murder of George Floyd. The slow-motion killing of a black man at the hands of a white police of... Read more

Voter Registration Data Versus Midterm Census Data: Implications for the June 2023 Presidential Election in Sierra Leone

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Afrobarometer, APC, Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, Freedom House, National Grand Coalition, Political Parties Regulation Commission, SLPP, Statistician-General, World BankNo CommentsViews:

This piece is published to correct some errors in the original version which Intervention did not publish. It draws attention to the statistical foundation of post-election conflicts in much... Read more

Nigerian Peace Academics Storm Bauchi for 20th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, Conflict, Development, PEACE, Security, SPSPNo CommentsViews:

Those who assume that scholars of Peace and Conflict Studies in Nigeria are not conscious that Nigeria has been one of the world’s richest site for the study of violent as well as structural... Read more