Senator George Akume | Intervention

Is Prof Chris Kwaja Heading for Politics?

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Chief Solomon Lar, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, Gen TY Danjuma, Governor Mutfwang of Plateau State, Middle – Belt, Senator David Mark, Senator George AkumeNo CommentsViews:

All appears set for Prof Chris Kwaja to enter professional politics in Nigeria. There are no posters or any of such most obvious indicators at the moment but Intervention learnt authoritativ... Read more

Benue State Deputy-Governor Botches Resignation Plan, Recants

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Chief Solomon Lar, Deputy-Governor of Benue State, General T. Y. Danjuma, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Gowon, Institutionalism, Middle – Belt, NATO, NCDC, Plateau killings, Senator George Akume, Tiv- Idoma relationsNo CommentsViews:

There is an anti-climax to the planned resignation of the Deputy-Governor of Benue State, Dr. Sam Ode. Instead of resigning as planned during the week, Dr Ode turned up at what was called a... Read more

Benue Rebirth Movement Writes Tinubu, Raises the Stakes

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: ACF, BRM, Ethnic minority, Kaduna Mafia, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, NPN, Senator George Akume, Social DarwinismNo CommentsViews:

Idomaland is still in the news as the Benue Rebirth Movement (BRM), the most active platform speaking for the Idoma ethnic group, has formally written to President Bola Tinubu, full of appre... Read more

With Two Permanent Secretaries, Has Tinubu Appeased the Idoma?

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Benue Polytechnic – Ugbokolo, BRM, Chief Audu Ogbe, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Permanent Secretaries, President Bola Tinubu, Senator David Mark, Senator George AkumeNo CommentsViews:

The Idoma nation (this word again?) was expecting that one of President Tinubu’s ministers would come from that stock. That did not happen. For an ethnic minority which has, however, been hi... Read more

Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Adams Oshiomhole, Atiku Abubakar, Bamidele Opeyemi, Chief Olusegun Obasano, IBB, Kalifa Mohammadu Sanusi 11, Lee Kuan Yew, Northern establishment, Nuhu Ribadu, Peter Obi, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator George Akume, The Left/Civil Society, Washington ConsensusNo CommentsViews:

One question that dominated at the presentation of Zainab Usman’s book on Diversification of the Nigerian Economy on May 14th, 2023, is why the Nigerian elite has not been able to transform... Read more

An Open Letter to President Bola Tinubu on the President As His Own Minister for Education

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2023In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, Cadinal Onaiyekan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Alake, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, General Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Ayo Olukotun, Prof Claude Ake, Senator George Akume, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Dear Mister President, Permit me, Mister President, to cut off the congratulations from this epistle. Apart from Cardinal Onaiyekan’s moratorium on that, (about which Senator George Akume ha... Read more

On Asiwaju Tinubu’s Vice-Presidential Headache

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: APC, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Christian North, Gen TY Danjuma, Machiavellianism, Muslim North, PDP, Senator David Mark, Senator George Akume, Senator JS Tarka, Senator Orji Kalu, YouthquakeNo CommentsViews:

Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) is, unlike Atiku Abubakar, his counterpart from the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) obvio... Read more