IBB Archives - Intervention

From Mrs Christiana Abbah to Y Z Y’au, It Is All Birthdays Deferred!

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 2nd National Development Plan (1970 – 1975), 3 scores and 10, Delinking, Dependency, IBB, Junior Aminu Kanos, NANSNo CommentsViews:

A Case of 3 Scores and 10 Postponed On a continent where the average lifespan is 55 years, there is hardly any logic in denying a 70 – year old housewife, mother and grandmother a clicking o... Read more

State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DFID, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, House of Reps, IBB, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, NASS, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, UNDPNo CommentsViews:

This attempt at an interim synthesis of the on-going conversation on policing Nigeria is reproduced from Daily Trust By Adagbo Onoja A nasty experience of generalised insecurity in Nigeria h... Read more

Thinking Hard As Nigeria Reads the ‘Riot Act’ to the President

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Dislocation, IBB, Palliatives, Prof Festus Iyayi, SAP, ‘Cuwa-cuwa’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The past two weeks has seen intense plea to the Federal Government of Nigeria to do something about the cost of living in the country. One big time player after another (gove... Read more

Intervention Replies ‘Query’ on General TY Danjuma Story

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Awoism, Black scorpion, General T. Y. Danjuma, Grid, Henry Kissinger, IBB, Northern intelligentsia, OBJ, Samuel Huntington, T Y Foundation, Zikism, ‘Jack’No CommentsViews:

Intervention thanks all those who have raised questions on the story titled Theophilus Danjuma Does It Again, But….. The TY story in question is one of the mysteries of the audience of... Read more

Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Adams Oshiomhole, Atiku Abubakar, Bamidele Opeyemi, Chief Olusegun Obasano, IBB, Kalifa Mohammadu Sanusi 11, Lee Kuan Yew, Northern establishment, Nuhu Ribadu, Peter Obi, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator George Akume, The Left/Civil Society, Washington ConsensusNo CommentsViews:

One question that dominated at the presentation of Zainab Usman’s book on Diversification of the Nigerian Economy on May 14th, 2023, is why the Nigerian elite has not been able to transform... Read more

Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 1976 Purge, Abacha, Bade Onimode, Bourgeoisie, Dr Sunday Awoniyi, Dr. Sam Ikoku, Femi Falana, IBB, Left, Marxism, OBASANJO, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Prof Sam AlukoNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria is, in all probability, heading for a repeat of the errors of the 1976 Purge. One of the consequences of the Purge is the question the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi put to Chief Obasanjo... Read more

Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, Bayo Onanuga, Brig-Gen Dangiwa Umar (retd), Datti Ahmed, Dele Alake, Discourse theory, Dr Reuben Abati, Hajia Najatu Mohammed, IBB, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Obierika, Okonkwo, Peter Obi, Prof Humphrey NwosuNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Has February 25, 2023 got much to do with June 12, 1993 in Nigerian politics? This is the same as asking if History repeats itself or if the social world is a matter of the p... Read more