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When Memorialisation Turns Into a Site of Struggle for Nigerian Activists

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2026In: People in ActionTags: British colonialism, Lord Lugard, NIPSS, PRP, SAP, Satiru Revolt, SCON, Sokoto Caliphate, UDUS, Zaria GroupNo CommentsViews:
When Memorialisation Turns Into a Site of Struggle for Nigerian Activists

There are many of them nowadays – burials or birthdays or a book presentations for one activist of yore or another. At each one of such event, nostalgia for the past pops up, sometimes... Read more

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Nigerian Activists Contemplate Radical Revivalism @ Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed’s Memorial Symposium

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2026In: People in ActionTags: British colonialism, Lord Lugard, NIPSS, PRP, SAP, Satiru Revolt, SCON, Sokoto Caliphate, UDUS, Zaria GroupNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Activists Contemplate Radical Revivalism @ Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed's Memorial Symposium

Although a return to the barricades looks farfetched, a powerful sense of the radical project in Nigeria as an unfinished mission struck activists and mourners of Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohamme... Read more

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The Example of Prof Mike Kwanashie

Posted By: adminon: February 10, 2022In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, BUK, John Munonye, Lord Lugard, Prof Kabir Chafe, Prof. Takena Tamuno, UI, University of McGillNo CommentsViews:
The Example of Prof Mike Kwanashie

It is only when one runs into him as happened earlier today, (February 9th, 2022) on one’s way to the university’s weekly community mass that it hits one that he is very much around on the c... Read more

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No Answer in Sight as Social Stalemate Stresses Nigeria Further

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Association for Good Governance, BOKO HARAM, General Yakubu Gowon, Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, Lord Lugard, Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:
No Answer in Sight as Social Stalemate Stresses Nigeria Further

Social stalemate in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is far from abating. Not only do media reports suggest discord at the highest level of government, there is also no consensus at t... Read more

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You Are Looking 50 @ 85 Because of Your Godliness, Engr Abba-Gana Tells Gen Gowon

Posted By: adminon: October 22, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Biafra, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Igbo, Lord Lugard, Shehu ShagariNo CommentsViews:
You Are Looking 50 @ 85 Because of Your Godliness, Engr Abba-Gana Tells Gen Gowon

One is nine years older than the other but there is a bond between them that seems so thick, belying the age difference, going by the wording of the letter. That is the letter below from an... Read more

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When Gov Aminu Tambuwal Joins the Narrative That Won’t Go Away

Posted By: adminon: August 27, 2019In: GovernanceTags: APC, Bauchi, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, EFCC, Fidel Castro, Gen Yakubu Gowon, ICPC, LAGOS, Lord Lugard, OyoNo CommentsViews:
When Gov Aminu Tambuwal Joins the Narrative That Won’t Go Away

“When I was the speaker of the federal House of Representatives, I accused the then President Goodluck Jonathan, who was a member of my party of supporting corruption. That is when he grante... Read more

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Symbolic Power Game in the North

Posted By: adminon: July 14, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Alhaji Tijani Tumsah, Biafra, Kayode Are, Lord Lugard, Middle Belt Forum, PCNINo CommentsViews:
Symbolic Power Game in the North

Radicals, critics and distant observers still stuck in rationalist model of meaning making would be lost about why anyone would attach any importance to the change of baton at the Northern E... Read more

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