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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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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:
Locating Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine’s Impending Inaugural Lecture

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

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

 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

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

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

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

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

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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:
Why the Clerical Turn Among Nigerian Marxists?

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

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Comrade Ali Chiroma, the Sincere, Fearless But Quiet, Revolutionary Leader

Posted By: adminon: April 24, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Babangida junta, Democrats, Lasisi Osunde, NANS, NLC, OATUUNo CommentsViews:
Comrade Ali Chiroma, the Sincere, Fearless But Quiet, Revolutionary Leader

By Columbus Chilaka Obasi Anyanwu I worked with Comrade Ali Chiroma from 1984 until 1988 when the General Babangida military government banned NLC after its alliance with NANS to fight again... Read more

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Waiting for Obasanjo’s Apology

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2024In: FlashbackTags: #EndSARS, 'Ali Must Go', Apology, Bakalori, buhari, FESTAC, Healing, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUNS, OBASANJO, Odi, Shagari, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:
Waiting for Obasanjo’s Apology

  By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YUSUF The “Ali-Must-Go” protest, organised by the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) and led by Segun Okeowo, is as important today as it was in 1978. But it... Read more

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 My Reflections at Sixty – Prof Odion-Akhaine

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: APC, Bamidele Opeyemi, General Sani Abacha, Labaran Maku, Mahmud Aminu, NADECO, NANS, Naseer Kura, Nigerian Civil War, PYMNNo CommentsViews:
 My Reflections at Sixty - Prof Odion-Akhaine

By Sylvester Odion Akhaine I am 60 today. I have decided to share my reflections on my journey so far and the lie of the Nigerian state.  I could recall aspects of the Civil War years. The t... Read more

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When Former NANS Leaders Turned Cecelia Abashi’s Burial to a Trip Into History

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, College of Education -Akwanga, June 4th, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, MAAS, NANS, Nasarawa Eggon, NLC, Olisa Agbakoba, UNILAG, University of Calabar, ‘Democratic centralismNo CommentsViews:
When Former NANS Leaders Turned Cecelia Abashi’s Burial to a Trip Into History

It was the burial of one of their own. For Cecelia Abashi was not a radical by association with the late husband, Chris Abashi. She was the personification of radicalism – stubborn in... Read more

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