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Third Sector Diplomacy in Action

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2023In: SpectacleTags: ActionAid International – Nigeria, Borno State, Entanglement, Global Civil SocietyNo CommentsViews:

Global civil society has emerged as the newest set of interpreters, powerful not by the criteria of control of state, population, taxation or anything structural as such but as managers of s... Read more

The ‘Zulum Phenomenon’ and President Buhari’s Current Visit to Borno State

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Borno State, Civilisation, Governance, Leadership, PowerNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki I am forced to return to the issue of qualitative leadership and good governance in Borno State of Nigeria again in the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s impendi... Read more

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:

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

Engineer Abba-Gana, Former FCT Minister, Loses Elder Brother

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Aljannah Firdaus, Borno StateNo CommentsViews:

The death has occurred of Alhaji Ali Buribe In Damboa Town, headquarters of Damboa LGA of Borno State. Alhaji Ali Buribe who has since been buried June 8th, 2020 according to according to I... Read more

Don’t Miss Electing Atiku Abubakar – Abba Gana Tells North Easterners

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Borno State, GNPP, INEC, Northeast Geopolitical Zone, NRC, SDPNo CommentsViews:

There has been a clarion call on the peoples of the Northeast geopolitical zone where Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) comes not to miss thi... Read more

Search for Common Ground Holds Capacity and Strategy Workshop on Human Rights Violations for CSOs

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2017In: FlashbackTags: 'Orchestration', Adamawa State, Borno State, CSOs, INGOs, NHRCs, SFCG, UNNo CommentsViews:

Conflict transformation INGO, Search for Common Ground, (SFCG) is unfolding a two day workshop for Civil Society Organisations, (CSOs) in the context of constructing coalitions against human... Read more

Kwarkwanchi Dies Off, Sends Signal to Other Endangered Languages in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, Alhaji Shittu Gallambi, Borno State, Dr Auwalu Gwaram, Fulani, Igbo language, Jigawa State Hausa, Kaduna State, Obafemi Awolowo University, UNESCO, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

The frightening reality about which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO) has raised the alarm long time ago relating to a language dying off because... Read more

Parting Shot: Kwararafa Owns Nigeria – Jukun Leader Jibrin Amfani

Posted By: adminon: October 28, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Aku Uka, Borno State, Cameroun, Chad, Dr Shekarau Angyu Masa Ibi Kuvyon II, Gov Darius Ishaku, Kwararafa Empire, Niger, Sokoto State, Taraba State, UMBC, WukariNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Later today in Taraba State, someone who was not a state official at the point of death would receive a state burial. That would suggest a lot about his place in popular cons... Read more

Governor Atiku Bagudu’s Intervention

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2016In: GovernanceTags: AAIN, Adams Oshiomhole, Atiku Bagudu, Benue State, Borno State, CDD, CHINA, CITAD, GCAP, Jigawa State, Kaduna State, Kebbi State, Lagos State, Military, PRP, UN, UNM, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Fewer and fewer statements concerning inclusion of poor people into the economy are heard nowadays in Nigeria. Instead of such statements, the society is served a menu of very obvious... Read more

Celebrating Borno’s resilience in photographs

Posted By: adminon: September 17, 2016In: GovernanceTags: BOKO HARAM, Borno State, Fati Abubakar, Maiduguri, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

More daring, more creative souls than some of us are helping to capture parts of the mass ordeal that is still unfolding around Borno/North Eastern Nigeria. This piece, originally published... Read more