CAPP Archives - Intervention

Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu’s Event

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, BUK, CAPP, LSE, NANS, NLC, NTA, OAU Ile-Ife, Philosophy, UNN, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The 85th birthday and book presentation in honour of pioneer president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Hassan Summonu has come and gone with its many sides. Al... Read more

Is Chom Bagu A Case of the Decentering Or the Mutation of a ‘General’?

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Bege Initiative, CAPP, Ganawuri, Nigerian State, NLC, Rene Descartes, Search for Common Ground, USAID, World BankNo CommentsViews:

At a time of great need for conceptual innovation in relation to the project of remaking Nigeria, it is intriguing that a Chom Bagu, aka ‘General’ is missing from the situation r... Read more

ASUU As a Study in Articulatory Politics, Antagonism and Radical Democratic Change in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'Broadcasters, 'Empty signifier', Antagonism, ASUU, CAPP, Ernesto Laclau, NUCNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja For an organisation that was told by a sitting president and Commander-in-Chief, (not President Buhari) that it would be drowned out into irrelevance as soon as he, (the C-in... Read more

Grief in the Nigerian Civil Society as Leading Members Suffer Loss of Relations

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: People in ActionTags: CAPP, MacArthur, OAUTHC, WRAPANo CommentsViews:

Leading members of the civil society in Nigeria are mourning the loss of loved ones, all of them nearly at the same time. Even as sketchy as the details of the deceased are in each case at t... Read more

Radical Activists Mourn Nelson Ananze, Late Executive Director, CAPP,

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2022In: People in ActionTags: CAPP, CISLAC, CLO, NUJ, Robert Cox, WINNo CommentsViews:

This story will be withdrawn and reposted as soon as Intervention is able to get a good picture of the late Nelson Ananze. Radical activists in Nigeria are mourning their own share of the sp... Read more

Tracking Emma Ezeazu’s Pro-Democracy Footprints

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, CAPP, CLO, NANS, SAP, UNNNo CommentsViews:

The apparent season of remapping of signifiers of radical activism shifted on Tusday, May 18th, 2021 to the late Emma Ezeazu, a former president of the National Association of Nigerian Stude... Read more

See What Bloodletting, Covid-19 and a Grave National Mood Have Done to Auwal Musa Rafsanjani

Posted By: adminon: June 15, 2020In: People in ActionTags: CAPP, CISLAC, NGOs, NPA, RafsanjaniNo CommentsViews:

Right from the beginning, it was planned to be a completely reflective exercise on “the deepening crisis of the Nigerian State” rather than a regular birthday celebration. It could not have... Read more

The Constitution?

Posted By: adminon: February 01, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CAPP, Chief Sunday Awoniyi, IBB University, President Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:

Establishing a journal in Nigeria in the year 2000 and calling it The Constitution must have seemed the most foolish step to take. Almost nobody was anticipating much constitutional creases... Read more