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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: NewsLogTags: 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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Jiddari Ward Attack in Maiduguri Turns Fiasco for Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BOKO HARAM, Maiduguri, Nigerian Civil WarNo CommentsViews:
Jiddari Ward Attack in Maiduguri Turns Fiasco for Boko Haram

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

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Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Biafran War, BOKO HARAM, Identity problem, John Campbell, World Values SurveyNo CommentsViews:
Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

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

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What a Week for Nigeria!

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BOKO HARAM, NATO, Nigerian Air Force, Prof Segun OsobaNo CommentsViews:
What a Week for Nigeria!

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

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Concerned Nigerians Insist on Zabarmari Massacre As Red Line of Insecurity in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2020In: SpectacleTags: #EndSARS, 'Red Line', Anomie, BOKO HARAM, ZabarmariNo CommentsViews:
Concerned Nigerians Insist on Zabarmari Massacre As Red Line of Insecurity in Nigeria

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

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

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NIIA Flashes the Searchlight on ‘Self-Determination and Secessionism’
NIIA Flashes the Searchlight on ‘Self-Determination and Secessionism’

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