Abacha Archives - Intervention

Adieu! Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu: Chief Promoter of the Option A4 Open Voting System

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Abacha, Abiola, ABN, buhari, IBB, June 12, NECNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu, who died at 83 on October 20th, 2024, was a man who made several marks in the field of Political Science both at home and abroad. He w... Read more

Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2023In: GovernanceTags: 1976 Purge, Abacha, Bade Onimode, Bourgeoisie, Dr Sunday Awoniyi, Dr. Sam Ikoku, Femi Falana, IBB, Left, Marxism, OBASANJO, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Prof Sam AlukoNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria is, in all probability, heading for a repeat of the errors of the 1976 Purge. One of the consequences of the Purge is the question the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi put to Chief Obasanjo... 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

A Philosophically Turbulent, New Angle to Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Abacha, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, FASS, Mallam Aminu Kano, Sardauna of Sokoto, Zik of AfricaNo CommentsViews:

This must be the shortest of any biographical works on Nigeria’s first and last prime minister but, certainly, the most philosophically turbulent of such works on “the golden voice of Africa... Read more

Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 1995 Political Conference, Abacha, Abubakar Rimi, ATIKU, Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, Northern consensus candidate, Rotation of power principle, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria Coming shortly after a Lagos lawyer’s recent claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is so sick as to have sublet his mandate to a cabal, the pr... Read more

Nigeria: Making Sense of Obasanjo’s Offensive

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, Akintola Williams, APC, APGA, buhari, Dogara, DSS, IBB, Mandela, Marshal Alex Badeh, North America, OBJ, PDP, Western EuropNo CommentsViews:

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday returned to the instrument of a scorching discourse of the nation which, in spite of its concessions to the Buhari administration especially in t... Read more

ASUU Versus FG: Nigeria’s 30 Year War Without Remedy

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, Abdulsalami, Africa, ASUU, Babangida, Bukola Saraki, CBN, FG, IMF, Jonathan, NCC, NNPC, OBASANJO, Prof Ogunyemi, PSI, PTDF, Uganda, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, universities, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Universities in Africa remain a battleground. Makerere University in Uganda, a senior member of the club of the most prestigious universities in Africa in those days is currently under lock... Read more

Some Stalemates to Watch in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, BOKO HARAM, Boutros-Ghali, Christian, Clinton, Goodluck Jonathan, Madeline Albright, Mohammed Buhari, Muslim, Niger Delta, olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, YaraduaNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer clear whether it is a real story or one of those high class jokes made to taste about a top dog, a country or some event in international politics. But it used to be told a f... Read more

Mathew Hassan Kukah: The Catholic Bishop of “Dissidence” Part 2

Posted By: adminon: September 19, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, Al Mustapha, Bola Ige, catholic, Charles Soludo, Christian, Dr Alex Ekwueme, El Rufai, Ezekwesili, General Babangida, Iran, Jonathan, Libya, Mathew Hassan Kukah, Muslim, NEPA, Niger Delta, OBASANJO, Oputa Panel, PDP, Ribadu, Saudi Arabia, USIP, YaraduaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja President Jonathan is a member of the Ijaw community, the fourth biggest in Nigeria, and from a state that produces about 40% of Nigeria’s revenues. After 50 years of being e... Read more

Did Obasanjo Bring Buhari to Power?

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, Atiku Abubakar, Audu Ogbeh, Babangida, CBN, David Mark, G-7, General Danjuma, Ken Saro-wiwa, Mohammadu Buhari, Nasir el-Rufai, NNPC, OBASANJO, Oladipo Diya, Shehu Yar’Adua, Sultan Dasuki, Tony AniniNo CommentsViews:

It seems former president Obasanjo would still successfully install the next president of Nigeria in 2019 before people wake up to realise he has done it again as he has always managed to d... Read more