Niger Delta Archives - Intervention

Could This Be Taken as Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s Oracular Testament to Nigerians?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Austria, Continental Europe, Crimea, Germany, India, Indias, Niger Delta, UK, Ukraine, USSR, ‘Mistake of 1914’No CommentsViews:

Intervention might not have been done with Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s demise but, for now, it draws the curtain with what might be the Oracle’s most direct message to Nigerians on nation bui... Read more

A Dialectical-Materialist Perspective on the Minorities Question in Nigeria and National Development

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Marxism, Middle – Belt, Minorities, Nationalities, Niger Delta, Northern region, Stalin, Willinks CommissionNo CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki ‎”Thus, a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community of people”, J. V. Stalin The making of a community of people into a nation is... Read more

Can the Nigerian Military Reply Asari Dokubo?

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Asari Dokubo, Niger Delta, Nigerian Armed Forces, President Bola Tinubu, Sudan, ‘Egungun’No CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq The Presidential Villa, the Aso Rock has turned to a Mecca of a sort since the swearing in of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with groups and individuals getting in there t... Read more

On Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark @ 95

Posted By: adminon: May 26, 2022In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, Constitutional federalism, Niger Delta, PANDEFNo CommentsViews:

By Dr. Pogu Bitrus The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) is happy to felicitate with our Elder Statesman and Chief Advocate of justice, equity and fairness for Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities, Chief Ed... Read more

Nigeria Is a Failed State

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Biafra Seccessionist Movement, BOKO HARAM, Hegemon, Niger Delta, Transparency InternationalNo CommentsViews:

The debate on whether Nigeria is a failed state or not continues in the Western world. In a Foreign Affairs piece on May 5th, 2021, a Nigerian and a UK based scholar took the position that N... Read more

The Point is that Southern Kaduna is a National Risk

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Amnesty Program, ATM, Birnin Gwari, Niger Delta, Northern muslims, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Zangon LatabNo CommentsViews:

Southern Kaduna is a boiling cauldron. This does not require the ideologues and strategists of the conflict parties there to say so before Nigeria knows this. Even the Federal Government of... Read more

Siemens’s Power Contract As a Case of One Trap Too Many

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Developmental retardation, German contract, Niger Delta, Power contract, SAP, slavish entrapmentNo CommentsViews:

By Salisu Nuhu Muhammad (salisu_50@yahoo.com) I am openly using this auspicious medium to invite all our compatriots to kindly devote more than a passing interests in the much lauded and voc... Read more

Intervention Submits to Bombardment on Kolawole’s “Build, Operate and Transfer Nigeria”

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'Dubai', 'The Trouble With Nigeria', Dutch, Emiratis, FAAC, Japan, Jos, Lokoja, Middle – Belt, NDDC, Niger Delta, Re-colonisation, Sheikh Al MaktoumNo CommentsViews:

The number of sites where this article by Nigerian columnist, Simon Kolawole, was circulated a few days back suggested that it must be redundant to republish it when Intervention chose to de... Read more

In Search of the Best President of Nigeria in 20 Years of Uninterrupted Democracy (2)

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Certitude, Niger Delta, Sharia, StatecraftNo CommentsViews:

Let’s begin on a note of appreciation to both those who have reacted angrily to the first installment of this attempt at rating the presidents since 1999 and those who welcomed that installm... Read more

INGO, Search for Common Ground Strengthens Human Rights Intervention in the Northeast

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2018In: FlashbackTags: CSOs, NHRC, Niger Delta, NUJNo CommentsViews:

Conflict transforming and peace building international NGO, Search for Common Ground is stepping up its five year old project titled “Constructing Coalitions to Reduce Human Rights Abuse in... Read more