An investment in a ‘career’ of dissidence can produce an explosive outcome because political parties, governments, caucuses and all such centres of power detest being openly criticised by in... Read more
Is it possible that President Tinubu never read Daniel Yergin’s book on oil before aspiring to be president? Nobody makes that mistake because Yergin’s book, the first one at lea... Read more
This piece is published to correct some errors in the original version which Intervention did not publish. It draws attention to the statistical foundation of post-election conflicts in much... Read more
Intervention is still not out of trouble with the establishment of Nigeria’s People’s Redemption Party (PRP). Earlier today, Prof Attahiru Jega, a party mandarin, disagreed with the in... Read more
The likely scenarios in Nigerian politics in the next six months to one year are beginning to unfold, beginning with the sudden departure from the stage of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chair... Read more
The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and the Kano State Civil Society Elections Situation Room are jointly distancing themselves from bei... Read more
Intervention or, more appropriately, some people within it, ought to have known that Dr. Nurrudden Mohammed was contesting to be a Senator from Jigawa State of Nigeria. He did hint Intervent... Read more
Although not exclusive to Intervention, this is, however, where many Nigerians will first encounter this independent minded and very analytical piece on the all involving presidential poll s... Read more
The turbulence that, historically, characterizes every presidential election in Nigeria is in full swing. It is frightening to even the most usually unperturbed elements in the polity about... Read more
Professor C.S Whitaker framed it as a defining element of the politics of tradition, calling it “change and continuity”. By that, he suggests that the old order never fades away completely.... Read more
