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Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

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Sule Lamido and the Prize

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, APC, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Jigawa State, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, NEPU, Nigerian politics, Northern Nigeria, NPC, PDP, PRPNo CommentsViews:
Sule Lamido and the Prize

By Adagbo Onoja There has been a major made-in-Jigawa political pronouncement but a pronouncement which goes farther than Jigawa State to the defining issue areas in African politics, with p... Read more

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Only Irresistible Elite Consensus Can Save Nigeria Now, From Bokkos to Maiduguri to the East Through Zamfara to Opialu

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Aso Rock, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CIA, Elite consensus, Fulanisation, General T. Y. Danjuma, Muammar Gaddafi, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasiru el-rufai, National security complex, NIGERIA, Opialu, Plateau, Saddam Hussein, Sheikh Gumi, TheoriesNo CommentsViews:
Only Irresistible Elite Consensus Can Save Nigeria Now, From Bokkos to Maiduguri to the East Through Zamfara to Opialu

By Adagbo ONOJA Nigeria is experiencing its worst encounter with nation-building. The most frightening dimension of this moment is the experience of physical violence across the country. Rig... Read more

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Updated: The Idoma Turn to the Biographical in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'M T African Pride', Admiral Francis Agbiti, Cde John Odah, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Sam Mbakwe, Idoma Native Authority, Igumale, Madonna Hospital - Makurdi, Okpoga, Sir Ahmadu Bello, St Gregory College, The ChurchNo CommentsViews:
Updated: The Idoma Turn to the Biographical in Nigerian Politics

By Adagbo ONOJA For a minority ethnic group with the kind of empirical presence that Idoma elements have had in post-independence Nigeria, there is no risk in saying that the nationality has... Read more

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State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DFID, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, House of Reps, IBB, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, NASS, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

This attempt at an interim synthesis of the on-going conversation on policing Nigeria is reproduced from Daily Trust By Adagbo Onoja A nasty experience of generalised insecurity in Nigeria h... Read more

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CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Africa, APC, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Julius Nyerere, Fair system, Keke- NAPEP, Lee Kuan Yew, Party School, PDP, PPI/IPSNo CommentsViews:
CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

By Adagbo Onoja The frightening powerlessness of all the centres of power in Nigeria in facing down equally frightening indicators of the catastrophic compels us to be interested in any and... Read more

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President Tinubu Confirms Intervention 100 % Correct on His ‘Big Boys’

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Adamu Adamu, Ad’Obe Obe, Alhaji Sule Lamido, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Alake, Dele Cole, Fuel subsidy, Muhammadu Buhari, Oronto Douglas, President Bola Tinubu, Ronald Reagan, Tanimu Kurfi, Umaru Yar’Adua, Wale EdunNo CommentsViews:
President Tinubu Confirms Intervention 100 % Correct on His ‘Big Boys’

By Adagbo Onoja From a great distance to both Nigeria and the Bola Ahmed Tinubu power machine, Intervention got it analytically right how the Nigerian president operates. The online platform... Read more

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An Inspector-General of Police @ a Time Like This!

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2023In: GovernanceTags: #EndSARS, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Giwa, Paris School of Security Studies, Soyinka, Sunday Adewusi, ‘Disco criticism’No CommentsViews:
An Inspector-General of Police @ a Time Like This!

By Adagbo Onoja President Bola Tinubu is still playing the appointments card by which Nigerians tend to judge the direction of an incoming president. So far, his score card is not reading ba... 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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Radicals Discuss Fuel Subsidy Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Archimedean Lever, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Gov Charles Soludo, Gov Nasir el-Rufai, Ideology, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi, Labour Party, Leadership, Petroleum subsidy, President Muhammadu Buhari, Radical democratic politicsNo CommentsViews:
Radicals Discuss Fuel Subsidy Politics in Nigeria

Other than the struggle for power in Nigeria which has assumed a judicial dimension now, the politics of fuel subsidy is the next hottest issue in the country’s politics. It is an issu... Read more

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