November 13, 2026
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Intervention Intervention
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Menu
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
loading...
Storylines
  • Festus Iyayi, Gramsci, Toye Olorode and Mattes Arising
  • Centenary of Gramsci’s Imprisonment: A Forum Report
  • November 12: Remembering Comrade Prof Festus Iyayi (1947-2013)
  • Ambassador Abdulrahman Dambazau and the Nigeria-China Cooperation Frontier
  • On the 30th Anniversary of Claude Ake’s Death
  • Nigeria’s Foreign Service and the Burden of Too Many Missions 
  • NLC Burying Two Senior Staff
  • Who Said What on the Way Forward @ Inaugural Audu Ogbeh Memorial Lecture in Abuja
  • Political Power in Nigeria
  • Why Elite Consensus is the Ultimate Prerequisite for Architecting Stability in Nigeria in 2027
Home The Nigerian State

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

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Rethinking Nigeria’s Security Architecture Through the State Police Debate

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Centralised policing, Federal Government, State police, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Rethinking Nigeria's Security Architecture Through the State Police Debate

By Chris Kwaja Introduction The primary purpose of the modern state is the provision of security. Without the capacity to protect lives, property, and public order, the legitimacy of the sta... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

How Tunani BookClub’s 2025 World Literacy Day Connected Digital Literacy to National Security

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Abuja, Digital modernity, ETC, IDP child, Michelle Amdo Ibrahim, National security, Permacrisis, Philistinism, The Nigerian State, UPENo CommentsViews:
How Tunani BookClub's 2025 World Literacy Day Connected Digital Literacy to National Security

The mandarins of the digital tech space in the Western world ought to have been there to listen to the literacy concerns from a major site of consumers of their products. That site is Nigeri... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

No Cure for Rural Criminal Groups Than Reassertion of the Nigerian State, Says Prof Kwaja

Posted By: adminon: July 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ACSS, Citizens’ agency, Criminal armed groups, PEACE, Rural communities, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’adua, Social provisioning, The Nigerian State, Urban criminalityNo CommentsViews:
No Cure for Rural Criminal Groups Than Reassertion of the Nigerian State, Says Prof Kwaja

There are no other ways to contain the rising influence of non-state armed groups than the Nigerian State re-asserting itself. Canvassing this position is Prof Chris Kwaja, peace academic an... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, BOKO HARAM, Borno State, CORRUPTION, Neoliberal economic reforms, Post 9/11, Sovereignty, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

By Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) “Governance … has been turned into a mad rush to empty the treasury for private use. This means the core business of governance has disappeared for decades, and the o... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

The Adamawa Electoral Drama and Nigeria’s Rising Danger Signals

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Adamawa, DSS, Panadol, Public order, Second Republic, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
The Adamawa Electoral Drama and Nigeria’s Rising Danger Signals

An inconclusive election in one of the provinces almost became the trigger of the kind of breakdown of order the country has been scared of. As relatively remote as Adamawa, it could have be... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Nigeria’s Leading Labour Platform Set to Mourn Comrade Akpan

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Comrade Akpan Dan, Leader-worker, Nigeria Labour Congress, Radicalism, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's Leading Labour Platform Set to Mourn Comrade Akpan

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) has been a high profile actor since the mid-1970s when the Nigerian State made what it must, from hindsight, be considering the strategic error of centrali... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Armed Robbers Attack Peace Researcher, Dr. Chris Kwaja

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Community policing, Stateness, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Armed Robbers Attack Peace Researcher, Dr. Chris Kwaja

Generalised insecurity in Nigeria sent yet another ominous signal the day before yesterday in his country home in Jos, Plateau State, (not Yola as incorrectly reported earlier on) when activ... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Recent Posts

Festus Iyayi, Gramsci, Toye Olorode and Mattes Arising
Festus Iyayi, Gramsci, Toye Olorode and Mattes Arising

Festus Iyayi, Gramsci, Toye Olorode and Mattes Arising

November 12, 2026
Centenary of Gramsci’s Imprisonment: A Forum Report
Centenary of Gramsci’s Imprisonment: A Forum Report

Centenary of Gramsci’s Imprisonment: A Forum Report

November 12, 2026
November 12: Remembering Comrade Prof Festus Iyayi (1947-2013)
November 12: Remembering Comrade Prof Festus Iyayi (1947-2013)

November 12: Remembering Comrade Prof Festus Iyayi (1947-2013)

November 12, 2026
Ambassador Abdulrahman Dambazau and the Nigeria-China Cooperation Frontier
Ambassador Abdulrahman Dambazau and the Nigeria-China Cooperation Frontier

Ambassador Abdulrahman Dambazau and the Nigeria-China Cooperation Frontier

November 12, 2026
On the 30th Anniversary of Claude Ake’s Death
On the 30th Anniversary of Claude Ake’s Death

On the 30th Anniversary of Claude Ake’s Death

November 08, 2026

Intervention Timeline

My Tweets

Posts In Pictures

  • COVID-19 Chase Goes Awry As Mrs Susan Okpeh Puts Governor Samuel Ortom to Task
  • Nigeria's Democratic Backsliding
  • The ‘Everywhere War’ in APC and the State of the Nation
  • What Should We Tell the President?  (1)
  • New Edition of Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' Coming
  • Genesis, Consequences, Remedies and Global Politics of Climate Change
  • Sensational Testimonies As Jos Poured Out for Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu
  • Restructuring Nigeria: Falana’s Counter-Narrative
  • Luanda AU Summit and Strengthening Conflict Prevention and Resolution Mechanisms in Africa
  • NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub
  • What Cadres, Others Said @ Eddy Madunagu’s 80th Birthday
  • 100 Publications in International Journals Alone Do Not Make You a Prof - Prof Ichoku

Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline

Info

Office Address: Suite 4, Abuja Shopping Complex, Area 3, Garki-Abuja

Phone:
+2348133033042

(c) 2017-19 Intervention.ng

  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Desktop Version Mobile Version