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Flashback to Day Commissioner of Police Caught His Men Completely Off Guard

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2026In: FlashbackTags: ASP, CP, DPO, Herbert Macaulay Road, LAGOS, NPF, Panti, ProfessionalismNo CommentsViews:
Flashback to Day Commissioner of Police Caught His Men Completely Off Guard

At the time Intervention pulled this story from Comrade ex-minister, Solomon Dalung’s Facebook walls, nearly 500 others had done so. That is the first surprise about since this same story ap... Read more

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Writing Abiodun Aremu aka Aremson in the Past?

Posted By: adminon: October 15, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Activism, Dr. Dipo Fashina, JAF, LAGOS, Marxists, Old NANSNo CommentsViews:
Writing Abiodun Aremu aka Aremson in the Past?

It was already getting late on Sunday, October 12th, 2025 when the call came.  The caller was asking if one was in a position to absorb bad news. Anytime he asked such a question, it meant s... Read more

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Gov Sanwo-Olu to Speak on the Geopolitics of Lagos @ NIIA’s 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Distinguished Lecture series, LAGOS, Megacities, NIIA, Policy millNo CommentsViews:
Gov Sanwo-Olu to Speak on the Geopolitics of Lagos @ NIIA's 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series

Cities make capitalism possible. Although capitalism survives through what British Marxist geographer, David Harvey, calls the ‘spatial fix’ – a strategy of moving to new frontiers as soon a... Read more

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History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Abuja, Domestic workers, History, Hit and run capitalism, LAGOS, NANS, Northwest, PYMN, Rosa Luxemburg FoundationNo CommentsViews:
History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

By Adagbo Onoja History can get more and more complicated, especially when it is the history of the now basically dead National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). What the history shou... Read more

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Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

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Nigeria Shut on Day One of People’s Power

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: #EndBadGovernance, Abuja, History-making, JAF, Kano, LAGOS, Oshogbo, President Bola Tinubu1 CommentViews:
Nigeria Shut on Day One of People's Power

Nigeria remained shut throughout on August 1st, 2024, the first of a 10-day popular action against bad governance. It marks the spilling over to the streets of deep fissures bordering on irr... Read more

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UN Compels Attention to Underdevelopment Crisis in Benue State of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Cassava economy, Child nutrition, Herders/farmers clashes, IDPs, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kano, LAGOS, RiversNo CommentsViews:
UN Compels Attention to Underdevelopment Crisis in Benue State of Nigeria

Less than a week ago, Intervention raised the centrality of elite reunion as a key condition for confronting the degree of underdevelopment in the Benue State. The platform thought and still... Read more

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Homage to Alache Ode

Posted By: adminon: March 14, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'Japa', Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Aminu Tambuwal, Asiwaju Tinubu, Juliette Ukabiala, Kano, LAGOS, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, Sule Lamido, The Guardian, The Triumph Newspapers, ‘Distant witnessing’No CommentsViews:
Homage to Alache Ode

By Adagbo Onoja The Facebook is a torturer. It is so because it is not every user who has no better use of it than splash all details there to affirm a disturbed and an insecure self. It sti... Read more

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Why Theirs is Different

Posted By: adminon: April 15, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Holy Rosary College - Adoka, LAGOS, St. Annes College - OtukpoNo CommentsViews:
Why Theirs is Different

Both those who would be travelling from far and near to bear witness to this wedding at the St Mary’s Pro Cathedral Church, Otukpo, come April 17th, 2021 and those attending digitally... Read more

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The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Clash of Civilisation, Constitution Drafting Committee, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Kano, LAGOS, Portharcourt, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:
The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

All students of security start from or acknowledge the premise that security is not an objective thing but a question of power, a question of who is seeing a threat, from where and how. So,... Read more

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Beyond Marxist Orthodoxy: A Rejoinder to Adagbo Onoja

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The Politics of Belonging: Who Has a Stake in Nigeria's Future?
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