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Lenin Centenary Calls Nigeria a Lootocracy, Not Democracy, Bashes NLC, TUC

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2024In: SpectacleTags: AAC, ASUU, Freedom, Gaza, Israel, Marxism – Leninism, MPN, NLC, PLA, Russia, TUC, Vladimir LeninNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian government and the people leading it got the lowest rating at the opening ceremony in Abuja Monday (January 22nd) of the centenary of the passage of Vladimir Lenin, founding fig... Read more

Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa, APC, BRICS, Hegemony, Karl Marx, Left, Marxism – Leninism, Neoliberalism, PDP, Popular culture, Right, USSRNo CommentsViews:

Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more

Dangers of Ignoring the ‘Constitutive Outside’ in the Current Anti-Coup Narrative in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Peaceful Rise', Coups in Africa, Modernisation, Prof Claude Ake, Prof John Mearsheimer, Prof Joseph Nye Jnr, Prof Samuel Huntington, Republic of China, United States of America, ‘Barrack culture’, ‘Social Science as imperialism’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This is not a rejoinder to Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s January 18th, 2024 opinion titled “The First Coup”. His opinion only serves this piece as the peg for a caution agains... Read more

Confusion Over Casualties in Agatu Violence

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, farmers, Herders, Okokolo, Wet landNo CommentsViews:

The military took control of Agatu area which has been the theatre of violence since yesterday morning. Eye witnesses confirmed seeing a convoy of soldiers, police and other security personn... Read more

Violence Breaks Out in Agatu, Benue State, Again

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu, Benue State, EU foreign and security policy, Ex-governor Samuel Ortom, Fulani, Global food chains, Herders, Indigenes, Nigerian cows, Nigerian State, Ranches, Settlers, The Police, Vice-Admiral Murtala NyakoNo CommentsViews:

Violence is understood to have broken out in Agatu in Benue State between persons suspected to be herders and locals. Unconfirmed reports said there have been sporadic shooting across river... Read more

Rites of Passage for Comrade Seun Salako Begins (2) : Tribute By Cde John Odah

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Ayofe, Barrister Festus Osayi, Comrade Oluseun Salako, Dapo, Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, JUSSA, Labour House, MAAS, Nkrumah’s Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, UNIJOS, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

In a chapter he contributed to a book of tributes to mark my 50th birthday, some 14 years ago, Seun gave a reverting account of our first encounter in October 1979 when we reported, as fresh... Read more

Rites of Passage for Comrade Seun Salako Begins (1) : A Tribute From the NLC

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Comrade Oluseun Salako, Labour House, NLCNo CommentsViews:

Comrade Seun Salako – A Comrade and Gentleman By Comrade Joe Ajaero, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for Congress At the Labour House in the Central Business District of Abuja, occu... Read more

How Bolshevism Built Modern Britain

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Anglo-Marxism, Clement Attlee, George Bernard Shaw, Lloyd George’s Bolshevik bugbear., Marxist historians, Simon Webb’s 1919: Britain’s Year of Revolutions, Soviet communism, Vladimir Lenin, ‘The Rationalisation of Russia’No CommentsViews:

Lenin still haunts our welfare state, says the author, Pratinav Anil who wrote this piece originally for Unherd. Pratinav Anil is introduced by Unherd as the author of two bleak assessments... Read more

Few Defective Factory Products Or a Flood of Fake Rechargeable Fans into Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Asian Tigers, C. J. Electronics Superstores, CHINA, East Asia, Jikwoyi, LG outlet, Nigerian salesmen, RechargeableNo CommentsViews:

Is it a case of few factory defective products that came as part of a huge bulk from East Asia and which somehow found their way into the market or is it a case of large scale injection of f... Read more

The Asiwaju Imaginary and Daniel Bwala’s Dilemma

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Atiku Abubakar, Barrister Daniel Bwala, Brig-Gen Giwa Amu, NEPU-PRP, OBASANJO, Sirte, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Intervention started its reportorial attention on the incipient Tinubu Presidency by forewarning the coming of a constructivist into power. Some deformed structuralists took... Read more