Poverty Archives - Intervention

Critically Celebrating Professor Okwudiba Nnoli, A Former President of the NPSA, at 86

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Catholicism, CODESRIA, Dares Salam, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, ethnicity, Footballer, Hans Morgenthau, IRs, Nigerian Civil War, Nwalimu Nyerere, PACREP, Poverty, Stanford University, UNN, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Established in 1955 by the former Eastern Regional Government, the University of Nigeria (UNN) started operation in 1960. Like every other university of its age, it has... Read more

Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

On Sokoto State Governor’s Clampdown on His Critic, Hamdiyya Cidi Sherif

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Disease, Drug abuse, Governor Dan Alu, Ignorance, insecurity, Jasiri Channels on YouTube, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Sokoto StateNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature Before the debut of the video in which she criticised Ahmed Ali Dan Alu, the governor of Sokoto State, the 18-year-old Hamdiya Cidi Sherif was an obscure local Tik Tok villag... Read more

Nigeria @64: Taking Stock of Politics and Governance By NPSA

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 1960, Flag independence, Flawed democracy, Nigerian State, NPSA, PovertyNo CommentsViews:

Prof Hassan A. Saliu In 1960, when Nigeria gained what some have described as flag independence, reflective of the nature of its relationship with major western countries, there was jubilati... Read more

NPSA Denounces Liberal Democracy, Blames Nigeria’s Woes On It

Posted By: adminon: September 17, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Liberal democracy, NIGERIA, NPSA, Political scientists, Poverty, Visionless elite1 CommentViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) says Nigeria is down because it is operating liberal democracy that is unsuitable due to its underlying economic philosophy which the countr... Read more

Still on the Views From Abuja Poverty Hubs on Current Corruption Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 09, 2019In: FlashbackTags: 'Bare Foot Journalism', Anaïs Nin, CORRUPTION, PovertyNo CommentsViews:

Questions 3, 4 & 5 form the subject matter of this second part of the series on “Can the Poor Fight Corruption? The Views From Nigeria’s Federal Capital Poverty Hubs of Bwari, Nyanya, Ma... Read more

Bidding Mrs Theresa Ochugboju the Final Goodbye

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Adoka, Chief Ijegwa Adaji, Major S A Ochugboju, Mary Knoll College - Ogoja, Middle – Belt, Otukpo, Poverty, World BankNo CommentsViews:

It is difficult to write about burial of women/mothers in Idomaland without being essentialist about it. From Ekiti or Oyo State in the Southwest of Nigeria to Jigawa or Katsina State in the... Read more

How Hobbesian is the Feb. 16th, 2019 Choice Out of Two Problematic Candidates?

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Hobessian choice, Poverty, Unemployment, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Professor Stephen Onyeiwu The author of this piece published originally as “Buhari failed to fix Nigeria’s economy. But he may still have the edge”, (https://theconversation.com/africa) w... Read more

As the Catholic Bishops See It

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2018In: GovernanceTags: fear, hunger, insecurity, joblessness, Poverty, violenceNo CommentsViews:

“Your Excellency, there is too much suffering in the country: poverty, hunger, joblessness, insecurity, violence, fear… the list is endless. Our beloved country appears to be under siege. Ma... Read more

UNDP Bombshell: Poverty, Not Religion, Propelled Boko Haram, Al-Shababa

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Emancipation, Extremism, Poverty, Structural violence, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNDPNo CommentsViews:

In a major report it is calling the first of its kind, the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), is reinforcing the view that poverty is what radicalises young people into extremism... Read more