#EndSARS | Intervention

Open Letter To Nigerian Youth

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, 'Japa', 'Sore Soke', Gen Ibrahim Babangida, Moshood Abiola, NCNC, Zikist MovementNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta You call yourselves the ‘Japa’ generation. And quite rightly! Nigeria at present is a mess politically, socially and economically and you want to migrate to Europe and North Am... Read more

Democracy, Populism or Revolution: Options Towards A New World Order

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: #EndSARS, Arab Spring, BLM, CHINA, Churchill, Peter Drucker, Russia, The Bastille Prison, The Rajapaska dynasty, the “Butcher of the Congo”, Trumpism, “Yellow Vest”No CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The storming of the Presidential Palace in Colombo by thousands of Sri Lankans last month brings to mind the historic storming of the Bastille Prison outside Paris... Read more

To Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Prof Abubakar Momoh an Update

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2022In: People in ActionTags: #EndSARS, Ahmed Lawan, Anti fuel subsidy protest, APC, Atiku Abubakar, AWOL, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bukola Saraki, Informationalised capitalism, Left, NEF, Nyesom Wike, PDP, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

Dying as activist intellectuals; as Pan-Africanists; each of you at a time anyone least expected and all of you in the month of May have added novelty to your own departure. Added to those a... Read more

Re-conceptualising Tunji Lardner’s Concept of Time Conflation

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: #EndSARS, Africa, Modernity, Post-modernity, Prof Ali Mazrui, Tradition, Triple HeritageNo CommentsViews:

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed It was Mr. Tunji Lardner, a philosopher in his own right but more popularly considered as a strategic communication expert, that conceptualise the idea of time conflat... Read more

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:

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

Making a Greater Hero of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: #BringBackOurGirls, #EndSARS, DSS, ESN, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, Unity Fountain, Walter OnnoghenNo CommentsViews:

The public sphere in Nigeria is becoming more and more contested a space, with differing entry points and points of departure. Here, a lawyer from Koyen-Hi Kebonkwu Chambers in Wuse 5, Abuj... Read more

The Politics of Truth in Nigeria’s “Herdsmen” Conflict

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: #EndSARS, Mandela, RMA, ‘Cartesian anxiety’1 CommentViews:

A spectre of generalised insecurity is haunting Nigeria. It has been a perplexing situation since early 2016 when Agatu in Benue State and Nimbo in Enugu State were the flashpoints. From Ben... Read more

Whatsapp: The Revolutionary Tool of the Naiveté

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2021In: SpectacleTags: #EndSARS, Arab Spring, Attention economy, Marxists, NetizenNo CommentsViews:

By Y. Z. Yaú It is itself a revolution when a leading promoter of IT in Nigeria such as Mallam YZ Ya’u is turning his back on social media usage, with particular reference to radical democra... Read more

Overcoming Primordialism and Fundamentalism in Nigeria With a ‘Grand’ Narrative

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2020In: SpectacleTags: #EndSARS, Citizenship, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Neoliberalism, Peter Ekeh, Postmodernism, ‘Grand’ narrative5 CommentsViews:

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed Every generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, betray it or fulfil it – Frantz Fanon What is the Nigeria we want? How do we achieve it? Answerin... Read more

The Passage of Annus Horribilis

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2020In: GovernanceTags: #EndSARS, China virus, CNN, COVID-19, Kabu-kabu, Lekki Toll Gate, Mama put, Zabarmari massacre, ‘Operation Sahel Sanity’ ‘Operation Fire Ball’No CommentsViews:

Ogoh Alubo, Professor of Sociology at the University of Jos in Nigeria, passes a verdict of a horrible year on 2020 in a detailed assessment of it just before Nigeria and the rest of the wor... Read more