Aper Aku Archives - Intervention

Isn’t Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Achebe, Agrarian transformation, Anambra State, Aper Aku, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, IMF/World Bank, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, Peter Obi, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA This piece is about a puzzle rather than a campaign for, against or criticism of Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo who was sworn-in a week ago for his second term of four years as... Read more

The Benue Fruit Abundance Scandal

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Food Basket of the Nation', Agrarian transformation, Aper Aku, Fruits, George Akume, Hyacinth Alia, J. S Tarka, Stephen LawaniNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is simply impossible to be in Benue State for a whole week as I was recently without feeling embarrassed that a state awash with diverse quality fruits on that scale ever... Read more

Isn’t Mandela Calling On Akume in Benue State?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Aper Aku, Benue Oneness, Cardinal Onaiyekan, elite fragmentation, Kantin Kwari, NELSON MANDELA, Oshodi, SGF, WAPANo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Over the weekend, (22/07/2023), Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, issued a statement that offers insight into the mind of the Governmen... Read more

Behold Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, Governor-Elect of Benue State in Central Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Aper Aku, Baptism, Buga, Ely Obasi, Gov Samuel Ortom, Industrialisation, PDP, Prof Terhemba Shija, Rev. Fr. Moses Oshio Adasu, Rufai Ibrahim, Sebastian Agbinda, Tiv-Tiv ticket, TSMNo CommentsViews:

Although this is not the first time Benue State would be experimenting with a Catholic priest as an elected governor, there is still novelty in the electoral emergence of Rev Fr Hyacinth Ali... Read more

Benue PDP Protests Intervention’s Prediction, Says APC’s Rev. Alia Won’t Win the Governorship

Posted By: adminon: March 05, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Aper Aku, Baptism, Buga, Ely Obasi, Gov Samuel Ortom, Industrialisation, PDP, Prof Terhemba Shija, Rev. Fr. Moses Oshio Adasu, Rufai Ibrahim, Sebastian Agbinda, Tiv-Tiv ticket, TSMNo CommentsViews:

Intervention is under fire for writing what its critics from the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) say is promotional of the All People’s Congress, (APC) governorship candidate for the March... Read more

30 Years After Reverend Adasu, Another Priest is Set to Emerge As Governor of Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Aper Aku, Baptism, Buga, Ely Obasi, Gov Samuel Ortom, Industrialisation, Rev. Fr. Moses Oshio Adasu, Rufai Ibrahim, Sebastian Agbinda, TSMNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA As things stand today, all the indices point at the electoral ascendancy of the Buga-dancing Hyacinth Alia, the Catholic priest carrying the All Progressives Congress, (APC)’... Read more

Benue State is Doomed Unless and Until … – Dr Tivlumum Nyitse

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Aper Aku, Civil service, Industrialisation, The Voice, Toryima OrgaNo CommentsViews:

Development in whatever sense understood will continue to elude 44 year old Benue State of Nigeria unless and until the leadership recruitment pattern in that state is changed. This is what... Read more

Last Minute Push in Inconclusive States But, With Osun Judgment, When is Inconclusive Election Conclusive in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Aper Aku, CAN, Fr. Moses Adasu, Show of Force', Yakubu DogaraNo CommentsViews:

A diffuse set of actions, overt and covert, are taking place across states where inconclusive elections are scheduled to be concluded tomorrow. All the states happen to be in the Northern pa... Read more

The MetaBosnian Poser in Moses Ekpolomo’s Ethnicity and Dynamics of Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, Part 2

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Aper Aku, Ethnic Politics in Nigeria, European University Istitute - Florence, Niger Delta, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Tiv nationalityNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Let’s start by thanking those who reminded me that I wrongly advertised this second and concluding part of the review for Monday when the first part was being posted on... Read more

An Agricultural Intervention:

Posted By: adminon: November 02, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), Agriculture, Aper Aku, Benue State, cargo airport, Gov Samuel OrtomNo CommentsViews:

“I read a report in The Guardian newspaper of 31st October that the Benue State Government is planning to construct a cargo airport at a staggering cost of N38billion. “And what is the cargo... Read more