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
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
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
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
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
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
An early evening attack on Jiddari Ward in Maiduguri town Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 turned a fiasco for Boko Haram combatants who were outsmarted by the military and killed in dozens. It is no... Read more
An article in Foreign Affairs, the Quarterly journal by the US based Council on Foreign Relations, (CFR), is going against the trajectory of predictions of Nigeria as a failed state. Rather,... Read more
The media should not give too much space to hopelessness but the media should also not join in creating a false sense of security. To do so is to be complicit in misleading a society. The we... Read more
A group of activist Nigerians that has still has no name beyond being called ‘Concerned Nigerians’ are saying that what they call ‘the most barbaric slaughter of innocent Nigerians at Zabarm... Read more
