Transnational Security Challenges
Language and crisis go together. There is now the word ‘courtocracy’ in the Nigerian universe of usage. It was never there before. On April 17th, 2024, that will be one word whose operationa... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria’s Prof Adele Jenaidu has been the source of a number of conceptual innovations of late. Hardship and hunger should not prevent us from further engagement with t... Read more
The Nobel Prize series remains a subject of contestation, as in this piece in which the author raises his own claims viz: The US and the UK alone contribute about 55 per cent of Nobel laurea... Read more
Like most other platforms and movements in the 1980s, the student movement in Nigeria today is a shadow of itself. But it is coming from somewhere. Maroonsquare, for whatever reasons, is kee... Read more
When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The unpredictability, chaos and contingent character of social reality makes it unimportant to bother about what people think about anything or anybody. There is an indigenou... Read more
70 years ago today (26/07/1953), revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. The 70th anniversary has made Intervention to go back to the archives to fish out and re-publish ou... Read more
“Very little was known by most of us about the theory of federalism at the time. Wheare’s book on Federal Government was the Bible of most of the politicians. They were always quoting Wheare... Read more
This is not a recent interview but Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff are two big names in political economy that many might not care about the time they said whatever they said. Not if they are... Read more
By Branko Milanovic A few days ago I re-read the book of Lenin’s final years’ speeches and letters. The book covers the years 1922 and 1923 (Lenin died in January 1924). I grabbed the... Read more
