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Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, BOKO HARAM, Borno State, CORRUPTION, Neoliberal economic reforms, Post 9/11, Sovereignty, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

By Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) “Governance … has been turned into a mad rush to empty the treasury for private use. This means the core business of governance has disappeared for decades, and the o... Read more

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Brooklyn College BBOG Marks 10th Anniversary of Chibok Girls in New York

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2024In: SpectacleTags: BOKO HARAM, Chibok girls, CUNYNo CommentsViews:
Brooklyn College BBOG Marks 10th Anniversary of Chibok Girls in New York

Memorialisation can be such a slippery act, especially if it has got to do with the abduction of the Chibok school girls and messy handling of it. If they are not memorialized, it would amou... Read more

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An Open Letter to President Bola Tinubu on the President As His Own Minister for Education

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2023In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, Cadinal Onaiyekan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Alake, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, General Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Ayo Olukotun, Prof Claude Ake, Senator George Akume, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:
An Open Letter to President Bola Tinubu on the President As His Own Minister for Education

Dear Mister President, Permit me, Mister President, to cut off the congratulations from this epistle. Apart from Cardinal Onaiyekan’s moratorium on that, (about which Senator George Akume ha... Read more

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Did Buhari Shift the Centrepiece of Nigerian Foreign Policy from Africa to Niger Republic?

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Benin Republic, BOKO HARAM, Democratisation of foreign policy, Eastern Security Network, ECOWAS, Niger Republic, President Bola Tinubu's foreign policy, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, SIRANo CommentsViews:
Did Buhari Shift the Centrepiece of Nigerian Foreign Policy from Africa to Niger Republic?

By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YUSUF On October 20th, 2022, the Society for International Relations Awareness (SIRA) invited me to review a book, Continuity and Change in Nigeria’s Foreign Poli... Read more

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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:
The Break Up of Nigeria: Myths, Realities and Implications

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

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Rebuilding Borno State is Beyond the Borno State Government Alone – Engineer Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2021In: GovernanceTags: BOKO HARAM, INSURGENCY, ReconstructionNo CommentsViews:
Rebuilding Borno State is Beyond the Borno State Government Alone - Engineer Abba-Gana

For a decade and two years, Boko Haram has terrorised Borno State into a state of war – killing, destruction and misery. What is to be done and how?  To this question, elders from the state... Read more

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A Time of Reckoning With Professor Babagana Umara Zulum’s Banner of Hope in Borno State

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2021In: SpectacleTags: (mni), BOKO HARAM, Borno State, Budget of Hope and Restoration, Electricity, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum, IDPs, State House of AssemblyNo CommentsViews:
A Time of Reckoning With Professor Babagana Umara Zulum’s Banner of Hope in Borno State

Ambassador Usman Sarki, a prolific analyst and a regular contributor to Intervention was at ‘home’ when Borno State governor, Prof Babagana Zulum presented his 2022 budget. In this piece, th... Read more

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ISIS-linked Groups Open Up New Fronts Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 26, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, Cabo Delgado, ISCAP, ISIS, ISWAP, Sambisa ForestNo CommentsViews:
ISIS-linked Groups Open Up New Fronts Across Sub-Saharan Africa

According to this piece by the UK based The Guardian, “Military victories combined with new alliances and shifts in strategy reinforce militants’ position across much of the continent” Jason... Read more

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De-securitising Restructuring in Prof Alkasum Abba’s Nationalist Summoning

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'Historic Block', ABU School of History’, BOKO HARAM, GNU, IPOB, Yusuf Bala Usman1 CommentViews:
De-securitising Restructuring in Prof Alkasum Abba’s Nationalist Summoning

No voice can have been as shattering of narratives consciously and unconsciously embodying break-up of Nigeria as Alkasum Abba’s edict delivered last Sunday in Kano, (See Ignorance, Politica... Read more

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Nigeria Is a Failed State

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Biafra Seccessionist Movement, BOKO HARAM, Hegemon, Niger Delta, Transparency InternationalNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Is a Failed State

The debate on whether Nigeria is a failed state or not continues in the Western world. In a Foreign Affairs piece on May 5th, 2021, a Nigerian and a UK based scholar took the position that N... Read more

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