NANS | Intervention

Reveal Your Head, It Cannot Be Hidden: The Unmasking of the PYMN and the Student Movement in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, ASUU, BUK, Emma Ezeazu, Feminists, Marxists, MPN, NANS, NCNC, NLC, NUNS, NYM, PYMN, Segun Okeowo, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNN, WIN, YUSSAN, ZikistsNo CommentsViews:

By Y. Z. Ya’u Cde Y. Z Yáu, the Executive Director of the Kano based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), delivered this review of the book Aluta Continua: The Story of... Read more

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:

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

Locating Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine’s Impending Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Africa, DEMOCRACY, Disorder, Empiricism, Inaugural Lecture, LASU, NANS, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer news that Lagos State University (LASU)’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine is to deliver the university’s 103rd Inaugural Lecture February 25th, 2025. The media – soc... Read more

Comrade Amah T Amah – A Salute to Gallantry and the Struggle for Social Justice

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Bassey Ekpo Bassey, Bene Madunagu, Chima Ubani, Ebony Okpa, Edwin Madunagu, Louis Edet, MPN, NANS, Prof Eskor Toyo, Prof Okon Uya, PYMN, UNICAL, UNNNo CommentsViews:

By Chris Antigha On August 6, 2024, one of the icons of the struggle for social justice passed away and was buried on December 28, 2024. The life and times of Comrade Amah Thomas Amah, in a... Read more

How Lanre Arogundade Broke Coconut With His Head As NANS Leader in the 1980s

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Abagbedi', 'Ákowe', December 1983 coup, Dodan Barracks, Ijebu - Jesha, IMF loan, International Press Centre, Memory, NANS, Obafemi Awolowo University, TraumaNo CommentsViews:

State repression of activists of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Nigeria in the 1980s is nothing comparable to 1994 genocide in Rwanda, for example but, like... Read more

From Mrs Christiana Abbah to Y Z Y’au, It Is All Birthdays Deferred!

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 2nd National Development Plan (1970 – 1975), 3 scores and 10, Delinking, Dependency, IBB, Junior Aminu Kanos, NANSNo CommentsViews:

A Case of 3 Scores and 10 Postponed On a continent where the average lifespan is 55 years, there is hardly any logic in denying a 70 – year old housewife, mother and grandmother a clicking o... Read more

Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Animism, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Christianity, Clerical Marxism, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, God, Islam, Judaism, Marxism, NANS, olusegun Obasanjo, Peter Obi, PPA, ReligionNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Introduction Marxists in Nigeria are turning to religion in numbers warranting the claim of a clerical turn among the tribe. We may still not know the number of Marxists who... Read more