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Can Asiwaju Break the Unwritten Rule About Becoming the President of Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Aminu Kano, Asiwaju, Atiku Abubakar, Awo, Azikiwe, Balewa, British, MKO Abiola, OBASANJO, President Muhammadu Buhari, Shagari, Umaru Yar’Adua, ‘Emi lokan’1 CommentViews:
Can Asiwaju Break the Unwritten Rule About Becoming the President of Nigeria?

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Apart from the  British  supervised transition which installed its own preferred candidate – late Sir Tafawa Balewa – into office and the military supervised tran... Read more

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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:
JAF Insists on a New Social Order in Nigeria

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

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Is Dr Iyorchia Ayu PDP’s Renaissance for Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: October 15, 2021In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, NPN, OBASANJO, PDP, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Is Dr Iyorchia Ayu PDP's Renaissance for Nigeria?

A nation basically hollowed out by mediocrity and liliputianism Nigeria is today has the right to celebrate the coming re-emergence of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu. A British trained Sociologist with a... Read more

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If Dr. Ibrahim Tahir Were Still Here

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Africa, ANPP, De Gaulle, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, EFCC, OBASANJO, PDP, Singapore, The Last Imam, Third TermNo CommentsViews:
If Dr. Ibrahim Tahir Were Still Here

He would have been the one voice both his admirers and those who did not admire him would have loved to hear today at a time of grave existential challenges to Nigerians and Nigeria. But he... Read more

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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:
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

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

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Could Buhari and Osinbajo Be Fighting?

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2019In: GovernanceTags: APC, ATIKU, GNU, OBASANJONo CommentsViews:
Could Buhari and Osinbajo Be Fighting?

It is still difficult to believe but it is no longer a safe attitude to dismiss such hints as nothing but gossips in Nigerian politics. For all we know, President Buhari and Vice-President O... Read more

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Would Garki 001 Beat All Else in Counting & Releasing Results?

Posted By: adminon: February 23, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Asokoro, Daura, Kano Under aged voters, OBASANJONo CommentsViews:
Would Garki 001 Beat All Else in Counting & Releasing Results?

Intervention can report that sorting out started in Garki 001 by 3.23 pm and counting began by 3. 43 pm. Might that be the first voting centre to announce its own result in the country and w... Read more

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Nigeria and the Backsliding Journey to Murky Nation 

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Gen Babangida, Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, OBASANJONo CommentsViews:
Nigeria and the Backsliding Journey to Murky Nation 

By Salihu Mohammed Lukman It is a season of narratives and counter-narratives in which wisdom, as they say, is like a goatskin bag of which everyone carries his or her own. And so here is Sa... Read more

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OBJ Vs Buhari: One Way Out of a Historical Conflict

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2016In: GovernanceTags: APC, Bongos Ikwue, Dr Ibrahim Ayagi, General Sani Abacha, Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, IMF, Muhammadu Buhari, Nasir el-Rufai, NASS, NITEL, OBASANJO, PDPNo CommentsViews:
OBJ Vs Buhari: One Way Out of a Historical Conflict

                Bongos Ikwue, the legendary musician, recently paraphrased the clincher  that the only fight one ever wins is the fight one doesn’t ge... Read more

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2019: Who Replaces Senator David Mark?

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Armstrong Adejo, Bauchi State, Benue State, Bongos Ikwue, Chief Mike Onoja, Chief Steven Lawani, Cross Rivers, Daniel Onjeh, Ebijie Ikwue; Geoffrey Ejiga, IBB, IDOMA, Isawa Elaigwu, Katsina states, Mrs Enyantu Ifenne, OBASANJO, Ochapa Onazi, PDP, Samson Amali, Senator David Mark, TivNo CommentsViews:
2019: Who Replaces Senator David Mark?

Come 2019, Senator David Mark would have spent twenty years on the Benue South Senatorial seat which covers the entire Idoma nationality: 1999 – 2003; 2003 – 2007; 2007 – 2011; 2011 –... Read more

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