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Why Has a Castro Eluded Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Armstrong Adejo, Cde Mma Odi, Comrade Femi Aborishade, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, Dr. Ike Okonta, Emma Ezeazu, Fidel Castro, Malam Abdulkadir Isa, NYSC, WINNo CommentsViews:

70 years ago today (26/07/1953), revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. The 70th anniversary has made Intervention to go back to the archives to fish out and re-publish ou... Read more

Public Official As Public Intellectual

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Edward Said, MKO, NANS, O’dua People’s Congress, Paul Baran, Young Men Christian AssociationNo CommentsViews:

In December 2022, Mallam Salihu Lukman, a former president of the NANS that Nigerians know, turned 60. On July 25th, 2023, it was the turn of Bamidele Opeyemi, another former president of NA... Read more

Africa + 1: Stepping Back from a Costly Pragmatism

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: 'Articulatory turn', Africa, Diplomacy, E-IR, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

The Bristol (UK) based E-IR has accepted and published this piece “Africa + 1: Stepping Back from a Costly Pragmatism”. The article is basically a critical engagement with the decision... Read more

‘The Third Marx’: Review of Marcello Musto’s “The last years of Karl Marx”

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Collectivisation, Ernesto Laclau, India, Leninism, Marx, Post-Marxism, The Russian questionNo CommentsViews:

As usual with Milanovic’s essays, almost every sentence in this review is a seminar topic in its own, problematising Marx’s key texts all the way as against any tendency to consume suc... Read more

But for Nigeria’s Season of Popular Anger, VP Kashim Shettima Would Have Received a National Ovation

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Agricultural Economics, Buga, Prof Nur Alkali, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

How great it would have been if Nigerians were in a happy mood rather than when they too have withdrawn clapping for a subsidy withdrawing regime. Vice-president Kashim Shettima’s flawless p... Read more

Nigerian Marxists Plan Big on Centenary of Lenin’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, BRICS, Karl Marx, Marxism – Leninism, USSRNo CommentsViews:

Marxist – Leninists in Nigeria appear to be among the first set of the faithful across the world to announce a programme of commemoration of the centenary of the passing of Vladimir Le... Read more

Nigerian Radicals Set to Tame Tinubu on Fuel Subsidy

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: 2nd International, General Shehu Yar’Adua, JAF, Left, Marxism, NANS, NGOs, Peter Obi, ‘Comrade Bola TinubuNo CommentsViews:

It could be the calm before the storm as one of the more consistent radical platforms in Nigeria is busy organising. In contrast to majority of the hegemonic neoliberal oriented civil societ... Read more

Isn’t Mandela Calling On Akume in Benue State?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Aper Aku, Benue Oneness, Cardinal Onaiyekan, elite fragmentation, Kantin Kwari, NELSON MANDELA, Oshodi, SGF, WAPANo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Over the weekend, (22/07/2023), Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, issued a statement that offers insight into the mind of the Governmen... Read more

The West Needs to Prepare for ‘ugly’ Russian Victory in Ukraine – Prof John Mearsheimer

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: China Republic, NATO, Putin, Russia, Taiwan, Ukranians, US congress, Wagner Group, ‘Cold Peace’No CommentsViews:

Prof John Mearsheimer is not another pundit pontificating on war. He is in a class of his own. First, he is a graduate of the West Point Military Academy. Second, he ran up to the rank of a... Read more

The Roots of Tinubu’s Fuel Subsidy Error

Posted By: adminon: July 20, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: APC, Daniel Yergin, LP, National security, NNPP, Oil energy, PDPNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that President Tinubu never read Daniel Yergin’s book on oil before aspiring to be president? Nobody makes that mistake because Yergin’s book, the first one at lea... Read more