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Will There Be An Upset In Nigeria’s Presidential Election?

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Afrobarometer, ANPP, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, CAN, CPC, Fulanisation, Goodluck Jonathan, Hot button issues, Muslim-Muslim ticket, Obi-dient Movement, PDP, Two-party system, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, Zeitgeist, ‘Emi lo kan’No CommentsViews:

Although not exclusive to Intervention, this is, however, where many Nigerians will first encounter this independent minded and very analytical piece on the all involving presidential poll s... Read more

How To Avoid Repeating The Buhari Debacle

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2022In: FlashbackTags: APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, EFCC, Goodluck Jonathan, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta The three leading aspirants for the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential ticket, Bola Tinubu, Dave Umahi and Yemi Osibanjo, lavishly praised President Muhammadu Buhari... Read more

JAF Insists on a New Social Order in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: GovernanceTags: BUHARI REGIME, Goodluck Jonathan, IMF/World Bank, NLC, OBASANJO, System change, YaraduaNo CommentsViews:

Joint Action Front, (JAF), the tireless organiser of popular agitation in Nigeria is saying the goal is a new social order in Nigeria by changing the system rather than one-issue protests. I... Read more

Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Chinua Achebe, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y DanjumaNo CommentsViews:

On September 3rd, 2016 when Intervention first carried this piece, (https://intervention.ng/4465/), it was responded to as disrespectful and there was a price to pay. But Intervention has ne... Read more

No Answer in Sight as Social Stalemate Stresses Nigeria Further

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Association for Good Governance, BOKO HARAM, General Yakubu Gowon, Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, Lord Lugard, Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:

Social stalemate in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is far from abating. Not only do media reports suggest discord at the highest level of government, there is also no consensus at t... Read more

Where is Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister in All These?

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Gaddafi, Goodluck Jonathan, ICPR, Libya, NATO, NIIA, NIPSS, ‘Diplomatic Soldiering’No CommentsViews:

Historically, foreign policy has played a unifying force for Nigeria. Like sports or, more precisely, soccer, foreign policy tends to dissolve barriers. As divided at home as Nigerians, a ty... Read more

2019: The Coming Clash of Nigeria’s Ultimate Titans?

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Sai kai', APC, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Umaru Yar’Adua, ZoningNo CommentsViews:

2019: The Coming Clash of Nigeria’s Ultimate Titans? Former president Obasanjo has his own idea of who climbs power at the centre in 2019. His political discourse of Nigeria and his discursi... Read more

Calm and Reconcile Nigeria Instead

Posted By: adminon: February 27, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'Do or die politics', 2019, Goodluck Jonathan, Government of National Unity, Muhammaadu Buhari, Niger Delta, olusegun Obasanjo, South East, Umaru Yar’Adua, Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

Calm and Reconcile Nigeria Instead For the third time in four months, (See “Buhari’s Only Way Out, October 21st, 2016; “OBJ Vs Buhari: One Way Out of a Historical Conflict, November 28th, 20... Read more

Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Atiku Abubakar, Charismatic leadership, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, General Gowon, General TY Danjuma, Goodluck Jonathan, OBJ Primacy in Nigerian politicsNo CommentsViews:

Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2) By Adagbo ONOJA In the face of widespread belief that former president Obasanjo is the architect of the fail... Read more

Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 1995 Political Conference, Abacha, Abubakar Rimi, ATIKU, Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, Northern consensus candidate, Rotation of power principle, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria Coming shortly after a Lagos lawyer’s recent claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is so sick as to have sublet his mandate to a cabal, the pr... Read more