It is, of course, great news that the House of Representatives (HoR) in Nigeria is set to pull the university system out of the notorious Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System... Read more
An inconclusive election in one of the provinces almost became the trigger of the kind of breakdown of order the country has been scared of. As relatively remote as Adamawa, it could have be... Read more
The Directorate of State Service (DSS) – the ‘Eyes and Ears’ of the Nigerian State – is on an unusual warpath. It has gotten everyone worked up by claiming that proponents of an Interi... Read more
One feature that has been common to all the leading candidates since the current electioneering campaign started about five months ago is slippage. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progr... Read more
Although the Toyin Falola Interview series preceded this moment, Prof Attahiru Jega’s impending appearance in that series December 12th, 2021 is bound to trigger or reinforce, as the case ma... Read more
The public sphere in Nigeria is becoming more and more contested a space, with differing entry points and points of departure. Here, a lawyer from Koyen-Hi Kebonkwu Chambers in Wuse 5, Abuj... Read more
It is not primitivity or backwardness but gendered culture. However, culture doesn’t have a once and for all meaning. Rather, culture can equally be very oppressive, especially of women as i... Read more
Although intelligence as an instrument of statecraft is seen more as a domain of intrigue, cloak and dagger, it is a viable power resource. The craft to know ahead of time what an enemy migh... Read more
This is a time to be reasonable in Nigeria, a time to be patriotic, to beware of anarchists and sponsors of insurrection. Who would choose to be unreasonable and suffer for it when former He... Read more
A fast rolling movie is on in Nigeria, very entertaining but embodying unsettling signals. Intervention attempts an interim list of the plausible signals, conceding only one positive element... Read more
