The Directorate of State Service (DSS) – the ‘Eyes and Ears’ of the Nigerian State – is on an unusual warpath. It has gotten everyone worked up by claiming that proponents of an Interi... 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 struggle for power everywhere else in the world is a deadly enterprise. In one way or the other, this is true. The exceptions are too few to puncture this claim. That being the case, it... Read more
By Aminu Habibu Jahun Apart from the British supervised transition which installed its own preferred candidate – late Sir Tafawa Balewa – into office and the military supervised tran... Read more
Intervention first published this piece on June 28th, 2020, two and half years ago. It is being republished without any editing, believing that its inference that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu could b... Read more
The cover picture and subject matter of this piece comes from China. It was used by even a non-Nigerian newspaper to illustrate the coming emptiness of streets in China in the wake of its de... Read more
Ahead of the February 2023 presidential poll in Nigeria, former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has released a letter endorsing one of the three leading candidates, Peter Obi of the Labo... Read more
Aminu Habibu Jahun Each of the four leading political parties (PDP, APC, the Labour Party and NNPP) carries a burden which could pull it down in the 2023 presidential election and for which... Read more
By his self-understanding as a lion in the Nigerian political forest, the past one week must have come to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a shock. The lion is rarely caught off-guard or easily messed... Read more