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Cde John Odah @ 65 and the Challenge of Radical Democratic Renewal in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: CLO, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, Hegemony, Immanent critique, Left, NLC, Prof Festus Iyayi, Radical democratic politics, Right wing, Tinubu assemblage, WINNo CommentsViews:
Cde John Odah @ 65 and the Challenge of Radical Democratic Renewal in Nigeria

In a remarkable language game at the 65th birthday of Dr Kole Shettima of MacArthur Foundation earlier in February 2025, Nigerians heard from the organisers that unless people like Dr. Kole... Read more

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Puzzles Over 2nd Week of Detention of Nasarawa Women Protesters

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: CLO, CPC, FIR, Gender movement, human rights activists, Nasarawa State, ‘Holding Charge’No CommentsViews:
Puzzles Over 2nd Week of Detention of Nasarawa Women Protesters

It doesn’t appear to have hit the ears of the human rights activists, more politically educated lawyers and the broader civil society in Nigeria. They are the constituencies more likely to m... Read more

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Spaces For Change Lavish Awards on Nwankwo, Oroh, Y. Z. Ya’u, Odah and Others

Posted By: adminon: March 25, 2023In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, CLO, NANS, NARD, NBA, NLCNo CommentsViews:
Spaces For Change Lavish Awards on Nwankwo, Oroh, Y. Z. Ya’u, Odah and Others

Barrister Clement Nwankwo, Hon Abdul Oroh, Engineer Y. Z. Ya’u, Comrades John Odah and a couple of yet others were some Nigerian civil society mandarins who woke up to an award Thursday nigh... Read more

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Radicals @ War Over Corruption in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 10, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, BUK, Chris Abashi, CLO, INEC, MAAS, NANS, NANS Charter of Demands, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Radicals @ War Over Corruption in Nigeria

The media is the mother of all contested spaces. He who goes to speak has also gone to hear. It is thus that it is the surest conflict manager by oxygenating the inter-discursive space such... Read more

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

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

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A Critical Celebration of the Vocation of Dissent in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2021In: FlashbackTags: #EndSARS, Aba Women’ riot, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, Christopher Sapara-Williams, CLO, Decree 2, Herbert Macaulay, Iva Valley, Kanmi Ishola Osobu, Kitoyi Ajasa, NADECO, NANSNo CommentsViews:
A Critical Celebration of the Vocation of Dissent in Nigeria

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (PhD) The week when the Justice Doris Okuwobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Lekki Massacre and the #EndSARS uprising in Lagos of October 2020 submitted its... Read more

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Tracking Emma Ezeazu’s Pro-Democracy Footprints

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, CAPP, CLO, NANS, SAP, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Tracking Emma Ezeazu’s Pro-Democracy Footprints

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

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And Innocent Chukwuma too is Dead

Posted By: adminon: April 04, 2021In: People in ActionTags: CLEEN Foundation, CLO, Ford Foundation, SAP, UNNNo CommentsViews:
And Innocent Chukwuma too is Dead

It is likely to be the most difficult news for all those in his circle to believe but Intervention has learnt of the passage of Mr. Innocent Chukwuma around 8 pm April 3rd, 2021. A well conn... Read more

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What Has Gone Wrong With Democracy in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: September 05, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Brazil, CLO, India, NANSNo CommentsViews:
What Has Gone Wrong With Democracy in Nigeria?

What might a conversation on democracy in an illiberal society such as Nigeria look like? Or, better still, how do democracy activists see it in Nigeria, 21 years after formal military rule... Read more

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For the Travelling Team of Uche Durueke, Anyankwee Nsirimovu and Emma Ezeazu

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Abisoye Panel, CD, Chima Ubani, CLO, NANS, Olu Oguibe, UNNNo CommentsViews:
For the Travelling Team of Uche Durueke, Anyankwee Nsirimovu and Emma Ezeazu

“On Durueke, we can say he is that go-through Comrade in the South East that can achieve a result for you without being exhibitionistic about it. The same attitude of officious quietude with... Read more

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