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Insecurity in Nigeria has taken a definite media dimension. This is not unusual. It is always part of the communication strategy of terrorists or purveyors of violence. They know that modern wars are about

International Observers may have stolen the thunder from Donald Trump’s protests over the conduct of last week’s presidential polls in the country. Although a number of developments have occurred since

It will be another Nigeria in conversation Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 when radical nationalists, patriots, family, friends, colleagues and sundry activists gather to pay homage to the late Dr. Yima

50 civil society organisations are challenging the Kano Police Command over an obvious hot pursuit the command has mounted to get at a Kaduna based Barrister for yet to be declared infraction. The civil

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Nigeria is, today, a perfect example of the Risk Society. The Risk Society is not a theory of Nigerian politics but its main argument applies very well to Nigeria. Nigeria had no experience of a terrorist

Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir’s congressional prayers in Jos today has provoked an angry reaction in this piece by Comrade Muhammed Ishaq, PhD in Mathematics from the University of Khartoum in Sudan and a

It is 2020 International Women’s Day and all manner of actors are identifying and posing their own puzzle about ‘The Women Question’. It is unlikely that any other actor will beat Gallup Global Analytics

By Onyeisi Chiemeke Lagos lawyer and activist, Barrister Chiemeke Onyeisi, retouches an old article to unpack a rising wave of heartless domestic violence, particularly of the variant in this headline.

<br/ The author By Y. Z Y’a’u* The 14th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which was held in Berlin, Germany from 25 to 29 November 2019, had the contestable theme of “One World. One Net. One Vision”.

Whether the United States is a declining power has been a subject of a long debate since the mid 1980s. It could be said that the intervention of the late Prof Susan Strange in that debate is part of her

Tolulope Arotile is dead and gone to heaven, if the testimonial on her purity by her anguished father who appeared on Channels Television in the wake of her demise is anything to go by. Intervention has

It is not clear if she was correctly understood during her life time but she was in a class of her own. She had physical beauty, class, education and what someone calls natural allergy to perceived

It must be an evidence of the many sidedness of the Obasanjo persona. Contrary to his earlier view that he did not accept that being decked in Western suit, for instance, is a mark of being civilised,

It is now two full weeks since Prof Attahiru Jega, the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) threw the bombshell that academics involved in the conduct of the

Of all the violence and turmoil in the conflict riddled Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC), what global channel, Euronews found as its pick of the day from there is nothing but the selfie posted on Facebook

The resurgence of banditry in Nigeria remains the big story in town. It is everywhere in the headlines, one of the most powerful source of information for the generality of the people. Daily Trust’s front

This material below is reproduced from The New York Times. It is reproduced for many reasons, one of which is that it solves a puzzle about which Intervention also has written about in its August 5th,

<br/ All for the remaining Chibok girls in captivity She wasn’t there but she was there. That is Leah Sharibu, the 16 year old school girl who is now more than a year in captivity of Boko Haram insurgents.

Nigerian undergraduates participating in two essay competitions thrown open to them by the Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development, (CITAD) are dodging one of the essays, the organisers