The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) promises an interesting encounter with the unpacking of the elections-democracy puzzle in Africa Friday, February 6th, 2026. That is wh... Read more
There is something paradoxical, on the face of it, for the Nigeria Police to be privileging its actorness in continental peace works when generalised insecurity is tearing Nigeria apart. Bu... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki “We are watching the strangulation of 2 million people, 61,000 of them have already died. It’s disgraceful and disgusting. History will judge, history w... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja An event around Dr Yusuf Bala Usman aka YBU took place earlier today (20/09/2) in Zaria, Nigeria. It was already halfway or so before a caller alerted Intervention. It was pr... Read more
Africa is still a puzzle in world politics: rising in significance in the world mostly for demographic and endowment reasons but how does the significance gets realised? Well, the Nigerian I... Read more
The festival of Pan-African solidarity triggered by Prof Okello Oculi’s death July 26th, 2025 raged on Thursday July 31st, 2025 with another condolence visit to the family. This time, ... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura I received the shocking news of the passing of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan scholar who lived 48 years of his life in Nigeria, while I was on the train to Ottawa from Kingston... Read more
It is contestable but not stupid to claim that Literature is always ahead in the politics of recovery of the African selves (a unitary African self would be worse than colonialism) than its... Read more
Political scientists from around the world have converged on Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea in Asia. They are there for the 28th World Congress of the International Political Sc... Read more
