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
Nigeria’s Directorate of State Security, (DSS) remains the all time subject of analysis in the public sphere for turning security into a stage performance in trying to re-arrest Omoyele Sowo... Read more
Is it possible that the DSS might also be insensitive to its own institutional image as to get involved in the turbulent politics of meaning? It is true that, at the end of the day, intellig... Read more
The call for release of detained publisher of Sahara Reporters and a former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore is growing. Sowore was arrested yesterday and is being held for what the De... Read more
Leaders of key civil society organisations in Nigeria have taken a tough position against what they perceive as ethnic stereotyping of selected individuals as to make them the fall guys of t... Read more