NewsLog Archives - Intervention

Nigerian CSOs To INEC: It Would Be Dangerous to Alter Election Time-Table

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2022In: NewsLogTags: INEC, Labour Party, Natiional Assembly, Political partiesNo CommentsViews:

A group of civil society platforms in Nigeria is up in arms against any attempt to alter the present schedule of activities leading to the 2023 General Election. This is on the ground that d... Read more

Nigerian Civil Society Lashes Buhari Regime for Social Collapse

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2022In: NewsLogTags: 1 CommentViews:

Civil society organisations in Nigeria are decrying again the totality of the Buhari regime which has been in power since May 2015. The 32 civil society organisations across the entire count... Read more

Updated: ‘A Vote for Dame Pauline Tallen is a Vote for Experience, Exposure and Performance’

Posted By: adminon: May 09, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Capitalism, Family, Plateau State, Senate, Sociology, UNIJOS, WomenNo CommentsViews:

There was no knowing that writing a story on Dame Pauline Tallen is equal to touching fire. Not only is every grammatical error corrected, factual errors are also protested. Look at this on... Read more

Who is Going to Stop Elon Musk?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Bullionnaire, Capitalism, Mars, TeslaNo CommentsViews:

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO who appears determined to move a large percentage of human beings to Mars is also determined to buy Twitter and the world seems alarmed about that. The New York based Th... Read more

End Nigeria’s Legacy of Miserable Governance and Arrested Development By Electing Quality Leaders in 2023 – Jega Tells Nigerians Again

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2022In: NewsLogTags: 2022 Annual Pre-Ramadan Lecture, BUK, Godfathers, Money bags, University of Lagos Muslim Alumni Association, ‘Siddon – look’No CommentsViews:

Prof Attahiru Jega, Bayero University, Kano political scientist and one of the most acidic recent campaigners against ineffectual leadership is on the warpath again. This time, he is putting... Read more

A New Governor Takes Charge of Anambra State of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Anambra State, Black China, Dr. Clement Isong, Elite minority, Mediocrity, Newsweek1 CommentViews:

Perhaps, the war in Ukraine and the relative immensity of Nigeria’s diversity have combined to reduce the news value of Prof Chukwuma Soludo’s emergence as governor of one of Nigeria’s 36 st... Read more

Form a Broad Alliance to Stop Nigeria From Collapsing – Prof Attahiru Jega

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2022In: NewsLogTags: 'Revolution', 2023 General Elections, Leadership recruitment, NLCNo CommentsViews:

The idea of Nigeria as a collapsing edifice is increasingly being re-asserted across many frontiers, mainly civil society platforms where plausible ways forward for Nigeria are being explore... Read more

“How We See is What We See” (3)

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Colonisers, Mwalimu Julius Nyerer, OAU Charter, President Uhuru KenyattaNo CommentsViews:

In a different opinion piece in a different media platform, this time Aljazeera, the Kenyan ambassador’s speech is interrogated as follows: The Kenyan UN ambassador’s Ukraine speech does not... Read more

“How We See is What We See” (2)

Posted By: adminon: February 27, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Colonialism, Kenya, Russia, UkraniansNo CommentsViews:

It cannot be called a controversial intervention since Ambassador Martin Kimani, the Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the UN must have gotten his government’s approval to lash out at Russ... Read more

Matters Arising From Abuja Court Ruling on Idoma “Alekwu’ Culture

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Adutery, African Traditional Religion, Alekwu, Christianity, Divorce, Dowry, Human rights critics, Idoma marriage system, Igumale, IslamNo CommentsViews:

It was the Ghanaian writer, Ama Atta Aidoo who declared that though she does not know whether ghosts exist, she nevertheless fears them. So also is it for even the most educated Idoma Nigeri... Read more