Meta-Nigeria Archives - Intervention

Workers and Management of ShopRite Chain in Nigeria in a Make Or Mar Negotiation

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: CHINA, De-industrialisation, Labour laws, Shoprite chain, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

The stage is set for what might be the mother of all negotiations today between the workers and the management of high profile shopping chain – Shoprite in Nigeria. Things fell apart and the... Read more

Gunmen Assassinate Chief Terkura Suswan in Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: 'Gana', Agatu, LogoNo CommentsViews:

News of violence is seeping out of Benue State in central Nigeria again. This time, it is that of Chief Dr. Terkura Suswan, elder brother to Senator Gabriel Suswan, a former Governor of Benu... Read more

Might What Seems Another Round of ‘Shock Therapy’ Be Worse in Abuja Today?

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: Abuja-Bwari, NNPC, Shock therapy’No CommentsViews:

The cover picture is how it was yesterday between 7 – 10 am at the Tipper Garage in Dutse on Abuja Bwari Road as caught by Intervention. The queue for fuel at the petrol station on the junct... Read more

What About Compelling Buhari, Obasanjo and TY Danjuma to Unlearn Fragmentation

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: No CommentsViews:

First, a plane flies to Ota in Abeokuta, Ogun State from where Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is picked up and brought to Abuja. Another plane does so with respect to General TY Danjuma, bringing h... Read more

So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: BBC, CDD, Chatham House, ECOWAS, FASS, IPCR, NIIA, NIPSS, NISERNo CommentsViews:

It has become a badge of some reference to be invited from Nigeria to utilize the Chatham House platform in London. Most politicians and intellectuals of statecraft who manage to get invited... Read more

Abuja is God’s Own Capital City, Create Six More of It Across Nigeria – Abba Gana

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: Fountain Park, Garki, National Assembly, TrancorpNo CommentsViews:

Engineer Mohammed Abba Gana, former FCT Minister from 1999 to 2003, says Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city is God’s own capital city and he is calling for six more of its type across the country... Read more

The Jega Lens on Restructuring

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: Chief Audu Ogbeh, Chinua Achebe, INEC, Peter Obi, Prof Bayonile Tolani Ademodi, Sanusi Lamido SanusiNo CommentsViews:

Prof Attahiru Jega came to the conversation on restructuring at the January 22, 2021 Media Trust Dialogue clearly set on conceptualising restructuring as no more than a rigorous or far reach... Read more

But, Will ‘They’ Listen to Goodluck Jonathan?

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: ACF, Bishop Mathew Kukah, Dr Usman Bugaje, Formula 1, Media Trust Dialogue, Middle – Belt, Molue, Peter Obi, Prof Attahiru Jega, Prof Mohammed AyoobNo CommentsViews:

The past week saw several confusing signals from the Nigerian elite, signals that have ominous significance than were previously the case. It was the week or so that there was a hefty handsh... Read more

All These on a January 15th in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, Posthuman theory, Thick signifier, ‘War of position’No CommentsViews:

Those still searching for evidence for the claim that reality is what human beings make of it might never get a better evidence than the conversational convergence on January 15th in Nigeria... Read more

NLC Contradicts Minister on Electricity Tariff Hike, Insists on Status Quo Ante

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2021In: Meta-NigeriaTags: DISCOs, GENCOs, NERC, NLCNo CommentsViews:

Those who do not believe that the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) can go beyond barking might have another thing coming in 2021. The key central labour platform is sending a different signal,... Read more