COAS Archives - Intervention

Could ‘They’ Talk Less Vis-à-vis the Management of the Protests, Please?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Atiku Abubakar, COAS, Coup. CDS, Hegemony, Machiavelli, The presidentNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The mention of a military coup anywhere, anytime can be unsettling. It is more so in Nigeria where the military intervention in politics has been a prolonged experience. Unde... Read more

Gen Leo Irabor Takes the War to the NIIA Intellectual Battlespace

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2022In: SpectacleTags: CDS, COAS, Gen Ibrahim Babangida, Mallam Mohammed Haruna, MIC, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) is marching on in its quest to consolidate its presence in the battlespace of ideas, this time yielding the floor to General Leo Irabo... Read more

After Gen Victor Malu, Gen Attahiru is the Last of the Core Military Professionals to Lead the Nigerian Army

Posted By: adminon: May 21, 2021In: People in ActionTags: COAS, Constitution, Nigerian ArmyNo CommentsViews:

For the third time in three months, Nigerians are mourning victims of Air Force plane crashes. This time, however, it is the Chief of Army Staff himself that was involved, along with 10 othe... Read more

The Bullet Was Not Meant for General Attahiru

Posted By: adminon: April 25, 2021In: GovernanceTags: COAS, HoR Adhoc Committee on Arms and Ammunition Control, Srvice ChiefsNo CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq President Muhammadu Buhari changed the Service Chiefs about three months ago with General Attahiru Ibrahim emerging as the Chief of Army Staff. The marching order to th... Read more

Nigerians Still Trying to Make Sense of Borno Massacre

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2020In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, COAS, NSA, ZabamariNo CommentsViews:

Nigerians are still trying to make sense of the massacre of 43 rice farmers in Zabamari area in Borno State last Saturday. The first problem is the number involved. While 43 is what is large... Read more

Change of Command at 6 Division, Nigerian Army

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: AOR, COAS, GOC, LAGOS, Portharcourt, ‘Operation Delta Safe’No CommentsViews:

A call for cooperation and commitment has gone out to commanders and troops of the 6 Division Nigerian Army so as to enable the new GOC succeed in his new posting. Major General Johnson Iref... Read more

Change Our Counter-Terrorism Strategy, CITAD Tells Nigerian Government

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: CAS, CITAD, COAS, CONS, Counter-terrorism, InfowarNo CommentsViews:

There is now a case for rethinking Nigeria’s counter-terrorism strategy in the wake of coordinated terrorist attacks on different targets in Gubio and Magumeri Local Government Areas of Born... Read more

Ishaya Bamaiyi’s Vindication of a General and the Ideological Origin of Junta Tactics in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2018In: BookspaceTags: AWOL, COAS, NDA1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA* It is a classic opening of the proverbial can of worms, with particular reference to that phase of the Nigerian power politics which unravelled from December 1983 to 1999 an... Read more

COAS, British Parliament, Osinbajo, Tambuwal, Clash on De-escalating Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: AK47, CNN, COAS, NUJNo CommentsViews:

The debate on what the current violence in Nigeria is all about and how best the country can be brought back from the present chaos, fear and uncertainty has escaped into contending options... Read more