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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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The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:
The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

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A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Jibogram', 70th anniversary, Carl Schmitt, DEMOCRACY, Ibrahim Tahir, Left, Marxism, Modernism, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:
A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

It is an event with all the potentials of exploding into a carnival and, in a totally unplanned manner, transform from politics into something political in the Carl Schmitt sense of the poli... Read more

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NPSA Cracks Parliamentary or Presidential System of Government Question in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Civil society, Left, National Assembly, NPSA, Opposition. Substantive democracy, Parliamentary system, Presidential systemNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Cracks Parliamentary or Presidential System of Government Question in Nigeria

It is debating time again in Nigeria regarding the most appropriate system of government for the country. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) in whose intellectual sphere of in... Read more

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Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa, APC, BRICS, Hegemony, Karl Marx, Left, Marxism – Leninism, Neoliberalism, PDP, Popular culture, Right, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more

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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:
Nigerian Radicals Set to Tame Tinubu on Fuel Subsidy

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

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Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2023In: GovernanceTags: 1976 Purge, Abacha, Bade Onimode, Bourgeoisie, Dr Sunday Awoniyi, Dr. Sam Ikoku, Femi Falana, IBB, Left, Marxism, OBASANJO, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Prof Sam AlukoNo CommentsViews:
Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Nigeria is, in all probability, heading for a repeat of the errors of the 1976 Purge. One of the consequences of the Purge is the question the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi put to Chief Obasanjo... Read more

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Who Will Neutralise Ethnicity in Kenya and in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: August 16, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'Emancipatory ethnicity'; 'Clash of Civilisations', Kenya, Kikuyu, Left, Luo, NIGERIA, North-South dichotomy, Prof Ali Mazrui, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Prof Nzongola Ntalaja, Prof Samuel Huntington, SenegalNo CommentsViews:
Who Will Neutralise Ethnicity in Kenya and in Nigeria?

By Adagbo Onoja It can now be said that the 2022 presidential election in Kenya has come and gone. A winner has been announced and is already being congratulated. The contest has not ended i... Read more

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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:
To Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Prof Abubakar Momoh an Update

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

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As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Christendom, George Floyd, Internationalism, Islam, Left, Lenin, Marxism, National Question, Nationalism, USSR, ‘Grass to Grace’No CommentsViews:
As the Nigerian Left Tackles the National Question

With just four more days to go, it is not gonna be a long wait before a statement from the Nigerian Left on the national question is made. That is a statement that could reverberate at the h... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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