Awo Archives - Intervention

Scanning Ibrahim Muazzam’s Explosive Survey of the Literature on Ethnic Profiling in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Awo, Colonialism, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, North-South dichotomy, Western metaphysics, Yoruba, Zik, ‘Dissidence International Relations’, ‘MetaBosnia’No CommentsViews:

Title: Ethnic Profiling and the Challenges of Inclusion in Nigeria: A Survey of the Literature Author: Ibrahim Muazzam Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Pages: 139 The tyr... Read more

Is President Tinubu Nigeria's Foreign Investment Moment?

By Adagbo Onoja Irrespective of fragmentation and disaffection at home, there are certain issues that enjoy consensus in Nigerian politics, regardless of the government in power. It would be... Read more

BUK’s Mambayya House Lights the Candle With Series on J S Tarka, Aminu Kano, Akunyili and Others

Posted By: adminon: May 24, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Aminu Kano, Awo, BUK, CDS, Dora Akunyili, Emancipatory Ethnicity, Joseph Tarka, MacArthur FoundationNo CommentsViews:

It is what they call lighting the candle in one little corner, the candle being a performance of the illumination that light brings to darkness. Nigeria is a dark space of ethno-religious an... Read more

But, What is the Tinubu Imaginaire? (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Information and Strategy', Awo, Bala Usman, BMMC, Ife Collective, Kaduna Mafia, Laos-Ibadan financial oligarchy, NNDC, Northern oligarchy, PraetorianismNo CommentsViews:

While we await possible explosive judicial tackles between Peter Obi’s Labour Party and Asiwaju Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress, (APC), we get on with trying to read the president – elect... Read more

Can Asiwaju Break the Unwritten Rule About Becoming the President of Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Aminu Kano, Asiwaju, Atiku Abubakar, Awo, Azikiwe, Balewa, British, MKO Abiola, OBASANJO, President Muhammadu Buhari, Shagari, Umaru Yar’Adua, ‘Emi lokan’1 CommentViews:

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

The Break Up of Nigeria: Myths, Realities and Implications

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Afenifere, Amalgamation, Anthony Enahoro, Arewa, Awo, Balewa, BOKO HARAM, Chief Gani Fawehinmim, General Yakubu Gowon, MASSOB, Northern oligarchy, Sardauna of Sokoto, ‘No Victor No Vanquished’1 CommentViews:

It is not clear why this analysis delivered on November 5th, 2014 as a Convocation Lecture at the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria is being re-circulated now. As a more edu... Read more

As Bola Ahmed Tinubu Enters the 2023 Presidential Race in Nigeria @ Last

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2021In: Policy & GovernanceTags: APC, Atiku Abubakar, Awo, MKO Abiola, Muhammadu Buhari1 CommentViews:

Former governor of Lagos State in Southwest Nigeria and a mandarin of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must have an active student of John Austin’s How to Do Things W... Read more

How Onaiyekan, Others Saved Launching from Degenerating

Posted By: adminon: August 27, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Ahmadu Bello, Atiku Abubakar, Awo, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Catholic Church, CoCDAGGA, Enugu State, Sokoto State, Tambuwal, ZikNo CommentsViews:

Tactful tackling and finesse gave way to emotional and charged outbursts at the launching of the Centre for Confederation, Democracy and Good Governance in Africa, (CoCDAGGA), at the Yar’Adu... Read more