#EndSARS Archives - Intervention

Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

Winners and Losers in the #EndBadGovernance Protests in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: #EndBadGovernance, #EndSARS, Developmental State, Fake news, Jean Baudrillard, Losers, Muhammadu Buhari, olusegun Obasanjo, Russian flag, The North, The Patriots, Tinubu communism, WinnersNo CommentsViews:

So, what happened in and to Nigeria between August 1st and August 10th, 2024 and who might be the winners and losers from that? Empirically, the country was enveloped in mass protests agains... Read more

Soyinka Hits @ Tinubu @ Last, Angry Over Violent, Colonial Tactics of Protest Control By Security Agents

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: #EndSARS, Hubert Ogunde, President Bola Tinubu, Security agencies, The Man Died, ‘Bread and Bullets’, “Yellow Vest”No CommentsViews:

Ahead of a heavily pregnant week in Nigeria, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka is, at last, in a position to openly criticise President Tinubu and the subject matter over which Soyinka, otherwise... Read more

Can All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still Rescue the Tinubu Imaginary from the Anti-Hunger Protests?

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2024In: GovernanceTags: #EndSARS, 'Ali Must Go', Chief Bode George, IPPS, Mass protests, Muhammadu Buhari, North, ‘Ango Must Go’No CommentsViews:

By The Staff Barring unlikely last minute concessions, protesters are set to hit the streets against hunger and hardship linked to President Bola Tinubu’s avalanche of taxes and perceived po... Read more

Waiting for Obasanjo’s Apology

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2024In: FlashbackTags: #EndSARS, 'Ali Must Go', Apology, Bakalori, buhari, FESTAC, Healing, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUNS, OBASANJO, Odi, Shagari, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:

By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YUSUF The “Ali-Must-Go” protest, organised by the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) and led by Segun Okeowo, is as important today as it was in 1978. But it... Read more

Fortifying Trust and Catalysing National Unity for a Secure Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 10, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, NIPR, NOA, NYSCNo CommentsViews:

By Sani Usman Kukasheka, mni In the intricate tapestry of human interactions, trust is the cornerstone upon which societies are built, nations flourish, and progress thrives. It is a beacon... Read more

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:

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

A Presidential Vote That deepened Mistrust Also Signals Nigerians’ Insistence on Change

Posted By: adminon: April 14, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Endemic corruption, Global South, Independent National Electoral Commission, Public trustNo CommentsViews:

It is as if the intelligentsia in Nigeria found something in April 13th, 2023 to re-stage the 2023 General Elections all over again. That was the day the Nigerian Institute of International... Read more

Nigeria Heading for a Minority Government – Prof Istifanus Zabadi @ NAPS Series

Posted By: adminon: March 29, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, CSOs, Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy, INEC, LP, NPSA, Obi-dients, PRP, SDPNo CommentsViews:

Half way or so into the Zoom session, the question as to why it was not being transmitted Live crossed my mind again. If that was not the conversation whose national and even global audience... Read more

Open Letter To Nigerian Youth

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, 'Japa', 'Sore Soke', Gen Ibrahim Babangida, Moshood Abiola, NCNC, Zikist MovementNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta You call yourselves the ‘Japa’ generation. And quite rightly! Nigeria at present is a mess politically, socially and economically and you want to migrate to Europe and North Am... Read more