It is a typically distressing but frank portrait of Africa. It goes as follows: “If potential were edible, Africa would have the best-fed people on earth. The vast continent has 60% of the w... Read more
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has not declared his presidential ambition yet. His Media Office has said that any stories of such declaration are categorical fake news. The Media Offic... Read more
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
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
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
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
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 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 Today is the 41st anniversary of the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Mohammed. As usual, it provides an opportunity for individual... Read more
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
