BOKO HARAM | Intervention

Editorial: Something Has Gone Very Wrong With Boko Haram War

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, Civilian JTF, Giwa BarracksNo CommentsViews:

Nigerians have been absorbing the shock of the attack on a national mission encompassing academics, oil experts, members of the Civilian JTF and military personnel last Tuesday by Boko Haram... Read more

Editorial: Untying Nigeria From a War of Attrition

Posted By: adminon: June 10, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'War cabinet', 'War of attrition', BOKO HARAM, Niger Delta, South EastNo CommentsViews:

Considering the spaces of insecurity in Nigeria today in the last decade, it would not be a careless statement to say that Nigeria is targeted for destruction, currently under siege and is b... Read more

Civil Society Raises Alarm on Government-Media Relations, Citing Ahmad Salkida

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmad Salkida, Amnesty International Nigeria, BOKO HARAM, Incorporated Trustees of Overt Legacy and Human Development Initiative, the Nigerian MilitaryNo CommentsViews:

In a major civil society-state relations rupture in Nigeria, fifteen civil society organisations have signed a single statement expressing alarm over what it calls “a disturbing veil of grow... Read more

Nigerian Researchers Unpack Resilience to Boko Haram, Downgrades the Poverty Thesis

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, CITAD, Risilience, USIP, “National Conference on Community Resilience to Boko Haram Insurgency”No CommentsViews:

Researchers in Nigeria studying the nature and pattern of resilience to Boko Haram insurgency have concluded on the note that breakdown of social cohesion, unemployment, leadership at local... Read more

North Risking Unstrategic Reading of the Emir of Kano?

Posted By: adminon: April 15, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'Civilised Conversation', 1976 Local Government Reform, BOKO HARAM, Distressing Modernisation, Sultan Dasuki, TalakawaNo CommentsViews:

It must have been evident that a voice raising a banner suggestive of a radical moment, warts and all, was bound to arise over northern Nigeria in the context of events of the past two decad... Read more

What a Game Changer to Grab Shekau Even After the Third Anniversary of Abduction of Chibok Girls!

Posted By: adminon: March 30, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Abubakar Shekau, Ahmed Godane, Al-Shabab, BOKO HARAM, Brig-Gen Mansur Dan Ali, Chibok girls, Commander-in-Chief, Daniel DePetris, Husseini Mukhtar, Osama Bin Laden, Sambisa Forest, The National Interest, United States of AmericaNo CommentsViews:

What a Game Changer to Grab Shekau Even After the Third Anniversary of Abduction of Chibok Girls! What a game changer would it be, for the military, for their Commander-in-Chief, for Nigeria... Read more

Northern Nigeria: Humpty Dumpty Or Behemoth in the Pangs of Transformation? (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'New Beginning', Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, BOKO HARAM, Cameroun, Chad, Niger Republic, Prof John Paden, Sir Ahmadu BelloNo CommentsViews:

Northern Nigeria: Humpty Dumpty Or Behemoth in the Pangs of Transformation? (Part 2) The first part of this report identified seven key developments that it graded as frightening and indicat... Read more

Middle Belt Intelligentsia Declare Herdsmen Violence Greatest National Security Threat

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Makurdi Declaration', Benue State Government, Benue State University, BOKO HARAM, genocide, Makurdi, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, UN, Week of PrayersNo CommentsViews:

Middle Belt Intelligentsia Declare Herdsmen Violence Greatest National Security Threat Anger against herdsmen violence went up one notch higher yesterday with Middle Belt intelligentsia form... Read more

Nigeria Needs to be Rediscovered, says Barrister Onyeisi Chiemeke, radical Lagos lawyer and author In this short but evocative interview, radical Lagos lawyer and an author reveals the minds... Read more

Boko Haram in the Context of Nigeria’s Gen Murtala Mohammed

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'Africa Has Come of Age', Aisha Mohammed-Oyebode, Ali Modu Sherrif, BOKO HARAM, Conspiracy theories and the Praxis of Inaction, Gamel Abdel Nasser, General Olusegun Obasanjo, General Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, President Goodluck JonathanNo CommentsViews:

Boko Haram in the Context of Nigeria’s Gen Murtala Mohammed By Kashim Shettima The Borno State governor in north eastern Nigeria delivered an over 5000 words keynote address at the 2017 Mur... Read more