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Were They Not Talking About Nigeria in 2019 From Kigali in 2014?

Posted By: adminon: July 03, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Addis Ababa, AfDB, Benjamin Mkapa, Dlamini-Zuma, Mo Ibrahim, olusegun Obasanjo, Paul Kagame, Thabo Mbeki, William RutoNo CommentsViews:

This video below is enigmatic. When it landed for Intervention on June 29th, 2017, one initial response to our inquiry was that the event in the video took place in Addis Ababa the previous... Read more

Exploring Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: May 29, 2017In: BookspaceTags: 'Dancing on the Brink, Ambassador John Campbell, olusegun Obasanjo, Onyeisi ChiemekeNo CommentsViews:

It is either that Segun Adeniyi is a dangerous reporter or an over generous analyst. Either way, he ‘punishes’ the reader of his texts with avalanche of data that must create for them a cris... Read more

Any Link Between OBJ, IBB & Abdulsalami’s Intervention on Buhari’s Ill-Health and de Klerk, Mbeki & Motlanthe’s on Zuma’s Corruption?

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Abdulsalami Abubakar, Against the Run of Play, ANC, Bisi Akande, Chidi Amuta, Frederick De Klerk, IBB, Kgalema Motlanthe, olusegun Obasanjo, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari, Segun Adeniyi, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

It started first in Nigeria when three former Heads of State – former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar met and took whatever collective position presum... Read more

Anxiety Mounts Over PDP

Posted By: adminon: April 23, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Alhaji Ali Modu Sherriff, APC, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, olusegun Obasanjo, PDP, President Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:

The unlikeliness of President Muhammadu Buhari candidacy in 2019 is making the ability of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) to bounce back a matter of strategic concern among those rethin... Read more

Will Zuma Go Tomorrow Although, Beyond Nigeria and South Africa, Corruption is Sinking Africa?

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Atiku Abubakar, AU, G-20, G-8, Gupta family, Lonmin mine, MTN, NEPAD, olusegun Obasanjo, President Jacob Zuma, State of Capture Report, Thabo Mbeki, Thuli MadonselaNo CommentsViews:

One is a manufacturing economy by the African standard. That is South Africa. The other is a lumbering, chaotic giant. That is Nigeria. The two are regarded as the power houses of the contin... 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

Murtala Mohammed and the Culture of the Big Question

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 41st Anniversary of Murtala Mohammed, Asia, Brazil, Coup, Industrialisation, Latin America, Muhammadu Buhari, olusegun Obasanjo, South KoreaNo CommentsViews:

Murtala Mohammed and the Culture of the Big Question Today is the 41st anniversary of the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Mohammed. As usual, it provides an opportunity for individual... Read more

Some Stalemates to Watch in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, BOKO HARAM, Boutros-Ghali, Christian, Clinton, Goodluck Jonathan, Madeline Albright, Mohammed Buhari, Muslim, Niger Delta, olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, YaraduaNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer clear whether it is a real story or one of those high class jokes made to taste about a top dog, a country or some event in international politics. But it used to be told a f... Read more

The Real Problem Killing PDP – Hajia Inna Ciroma Part 1

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: APC, Barnabas Gemade, Inna Maryam Ciroma, Jerry Gana, LGC, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, NPN, olusegun Obasanjo, PDP, Portharcourt, Sule Lamido, Sunday AwoniyiNo CommentsViews:

Sitting down with Hajia Inna Ciroma for an hour or so on Sunday, August 28th, 2016 turned out very fulfilling, journalistically. She is not the type you ask a question and starts to fidget i... Read more

Intervention Got It Right

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abdulsalami Abubakar, BOKO HARAM, Goodluck Jonathan, Herdsmen, Lai Mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, Niger Delta, olusegun Obasanjo, Tunde Bakare, Wole Soyinka, Yakubu DogaraNo CommentsViews:

This newspaper’s reading of recent visit of a number of high profile players to Aso Rock Villa, the seat of federal power in Nigeria as the eve of a major policy has been confirmed correct.... Read more