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Fear, Identity Securitisation and Power Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: 'Political entrepreneurs', ethnicity, Federal Character Principle, Indigeneity, Marginalisation, Region, Religion, Securitisation, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Fear, Identity Securitisation and Power Politics in Nigeria

By Chris Kwaja  Introduction Nigeria’s political and security crises are frequently explained through the country’s ethnic and religious diversity. Such explanations, however, ri... Read more

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Mrs Berakah Yoroms’ 60th Birthday and the Professor-Pastor Conundrum in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Crimes against humanity, Imperialism, neocolonialism, Pastor Mrs Berakah, Prof Gani Yoroms, Progress, Religion, Science, Widophan InternationalNo CommentsViews:
Mrs Berakah Yoroms’ 60th Birthday and the Professor-Pastor Conundrum in Nigeria

Those who do not have shades of pink or white in their stock of dresses still have the whole of today (Friday, July 25th, 2025) to pick one and be set for the D- Day. Pastor Mrs Berakah Yoro... Read more

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Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Animism, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Christianity, Clerical Marxism, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, God, Islam, Judaism, Marxism, NANS, olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, PPA, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

By Adagbo Onoja Introduction Marxists in Nigeria are turning to religion in numbers warranting the claim of a clerical turn among the tribe. We may still not know the number of Marxists who... Read more

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Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Achebe, Amos Tutola, Collective stupidity, Derrida, Ella Agunaga, God, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Marx, Religion, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

It is possible to have sat in conversation with Bongos Ikwue several times previously but to find him a different person in a more recent encounter. But that is not because he is slippery. I... Read more

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Jesus At the End of History !

Posted By: adminon: March 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Christianity, Faith, God, Hegel, Jesus Christ, Philosophy, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Jesus At the End of History !

Philosophy or philosophically framed discussion are not usually the easiest stuff to engage in the best of times. It is worse if it is an interpretation of Hegel’s work, Hegel being one of E... Read more

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Our Godless Era is Dead: A Second Religiousness is Sweeping the West

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Arnold Toynbee, Enlightenment, Fascism, God, Marxism, Orthodox Church, Oswald Spengler, Religion, Western mind, Yeats, ‘The Decline of the West’, ‘The Second Coming’No CommentsViews:
Our Godless Era is Dead: A Second Religiousness is Sweeping the West

This piece is too long to subject readers to during any holidays but Intervention would argue that it is about the holidays itself and therefore worth reproducing from where it was originall... Read more

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Managing Asiwaju’s Coming Overwriting of the Cartesian Bullshit to Morph Into Nigeria’s Most Powerful President Ever

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Academia, Cartesian bullshit, Civil society, IBB, Judiciary, Left politics, overnment of National Unity, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Managing Asiwaju’s Coming Overwriting of the Cartesian Bullshit to Morph Into Nigeria’s Most Powerful President Ever

By Adagbo Onoja The level of mental, institutional, infrastructural and social decay in Nigeria is of an emergency proportion. So much so that any person of goodwill must join in putting con... Read more

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The London Parley and Nigeria’s Stakeholders

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Daura, ethnicity, London, Otuoke, Owu, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
The London Parley and Nigeria’s Stakeholders

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq Nigeria is about the unusual and bizarre, the country where reptiles, rodents and insects “chop” money in government till and we are never short of screaming headlines o... Read more

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Socialism and Religion Are Not Antagonistic of Each Other – Major Adeyi, HoD, Political Science, University of Jos

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Chief Awolowo, Eneke the bird, Marxism, Obafemi, Ontological standpoint, Religion, UPNNo CommentsViews:
Socialism and Religion Are Not Antagonistic of Each Other - Major Adeyi, HoD, Political Science, University of Jos

The original intention for putting a call through to him was to question his daily practice of dispatching religious texts through his WhatsApp. It is not that the religious text messages ar... Read more

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Three Years of Intervention and Its Critics

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Clan, Emancipation, ethnicity, Global Energy, Kaduna Mafia, Nationalism, New Nigerian, Prof Mvendaga Jibo, race, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Three Years of Intervention and Its Critics

Started July 27th, 2016, Intervention is exactly three years old today. It was a very exciting moment at Intervention earlier this week when a 45 year old editorial by the defunct New Nigeri... Read more

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From Borno to Borgu: A New Frontier of Insurgency in Nigeria
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