Civil society Archives - Intervention

How and Why Magistrate Court Sent Citizen Mahmud Abdul, Former NANS President, to Prison On A Friday

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Bail, Civil society, Keffi Prison, Lawyers, Magistrate Court, NANSNo CommentsViews:

More details have emerged on how a notable Nigerian lawyer and activist, Barr Abdul Mahmud, ended being remanded in Keffi Prison by a Magistrate on a Friday (Feb 27th, 2026). The sketchy inf... Read more

Magistrate Sends Barr Mahmud Abdul, Former NANS President, to Keffi Prison

Posted By: adminon: February 27, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Civil society, Keffi Prison, Lawyers, Magistrate Court, NANSNo CommentsViews:

For what reasons or charges has well known lawyer, activist and writer, Comrade Abdul Mahmud, been sent to the Keffi Prison in Nasarawa State in central Nigeria? This is the question activis... Read more

NIIA’s Foreign Policy Lecture Tackles Elections-Democracy Puzzle in Africa

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Civil society, Elections, Liberal democracy, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) promises an interesting encounter with the unpacking of the elections-democracy puzzle in Africa Friday, February 6th, 2026. That is wh... Read more

Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity - Tradition Cord in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more

Ene Ede Sets Aside February 1st for Triumphant Reckoning

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Civil society, God, TriumphalismNo CommentsViews:

Notable gender activist, Ene Ede is setting February 1st, 2026 aside to look back so as to look forward with greater vigour. Perhaps, the sense of triumph is inescapable after surviving a no... Read more

It Is, Indeed, Time to Constitutionally Compensate Women for Their Immense Contributions

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2025In: GovernanceTags: African Union, Civil society, Community leaders, Dr Tajudden Abbas, National Assembly, Political parties, The mediaNo CommentsViews:

The 2025 African Women’s Day may have passed but not its celebration, what with an impending gender legislation that could send a very civilised message on a global scale from Nigeria as ag... Read more

The Image Crisis of the Tinubu Presidency

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: APC, Civil society, Democratic glasshouse, History, Legitimacy, Sycophancy, The Renewed Hope’ agenda, Tinubu administrationNo CommentsViews:

The epistemic poverty of image making in Nigeria in general and of the Presidency in particular attracts the attention of an interested observer and activist of the Kaduna based Network for... Read more

Dr. Kole Shettima’s Honorary DSc Moment @ Federal University, Kashere

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2025In: FlashbackTags: (OON, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Alhaji (Dr.) Bashir Albishir Bukar Machinama, Civil society, DSc, L’ONN), MacArthur Foundation, Rashidi dattijo, University of Maiduguri, University of Toronto, Zanna Yuroma of Machina EmirateNo CommentsViews:

Philanthropic capitalism got another symbolic endorsement in Nigeria at the weekend when Dr Kole Shettima of MacArthur Foundation was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by the Fede... Read more

The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

Kenyans Discipline Democracy Against Wild Taxes

Posted By: adminon: June 28, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Civil society, DEMOCRACY, Kenya, President Ruto, TaxationNo CommentsViews:

Kenyans are disciplining democracy, protesting taxation under the Williams Ruto administration. At some point during the week, the country has been basically shut down, right up to the legis... Read more