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Public Official As Public Intellectual

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Edward Said, MKO, NANS, O’dua People’s Congress, Paul Baran, Young Men Christian AssociationNo CommentsViews:
Public Official As Public Intellectual

In December 2022, Mallam Salihu Lukman, a former president of the NANS that Nigerians know, turned 60. On July 25th, 2023, it was the turn of Bamidele Opeyemi, another former president of NA... 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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Powerful Democratic Signals from Agbu Kefas, Dauda Lawal, Opeyemi and 2 Others

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Elite universities, Fuel subsidy, NANS, President Bola Tinubu, University of MelbourneNo CommentsViews:
Powerful Democratic Signals from Agbu Kefas, Dauda Lawal, Opeyemi and 2 Others

It is perhaps too early to sing their praises but they have sent signals too powerful to ignore in the midst of suffering and gloom. Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State The first on Interven... Read more

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Memories of the 1986 “Ango Must Go” Protest in ABU, Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Abdulrahman Black, ABU Demonstration Secondary School, ASUU-ABU, Farida Mustapha, Gayus Obed, NANS, North, Paulo Friere, Yau Musa Yar’adua, ‘Ango Must Go’No CommentsViews:
Memories of the 1986 “Ango Must Go” Protest in ABU, Zaria

By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YUSUF Intervention is publishing the unedited version of this piece, having been written by someone who was an insider and who wrote a thesis on it. Read on! Thirty-sev... Read more

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Spaces For Change Lavish Awards on Nwankwo, Oroh, Y. Z. Ya’u, Odah and Others

Posted By: adminon: March 25, 2023In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, CLO, NANS, NARD, NBA, NLCNo CommentsViews:
Spaces For Change Lavish Awards on Nwankwo, Oroh, Y. Z. Ya’u, Odah and Others

Barrister Clement Nwankwo, Hon Abdul Oroh, Engineer Y. Z. Ya’u, Comrades John Odah and a couple of yet others were some Nigerian civil society mandarins who woke up to an award Thursday nigh... Read more

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A Historically Significant Shot

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Decolonising ideology of policing, Dictatorship, NANS1 CommentViews:
A Historically Significant Shot

Very few Nigerians might recognize the faces in the above cove picture. But it is a historically significant picture. One of the faces is today a Professor of Political Science in Lagos. One... Read more

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Would Mouktar Abashi Advance to be Recognised?

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Chris Abashi, Fine Arts, James Audu, Mohammed Suleiman, NANS, Poetry, Radio Kaduna, Thompson Adanbara, TY Danjuma FoundationNo CommentsViews:
Would Mouktar Abashi Advance to be Recognised?

There are three reasons why he should manifest himself or take manifesting himself seriously. One, as the son of a former president of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students,... Read more

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Salihu Lukman and the Burden of Joy

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Buccaneers, Burden of joy, NANS, Radical nationalism, Writing democracyNo CommentsViews:
Salihu Lukman and the Burden of Joy

The 60th birthday of a former president of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) can hardly be a strictly family affair. Great and important that children, friends, ‘... Read more

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Bello Aidoloje And Memory As Battleground of History

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2022In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Authoritarianism, NANS, Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Bello Aidoloje And Memory As Battleground of History

At death last week, Bello Aidoloje was still under 60. In an era when politicians very close to the age of 80 are contesting for power across the world, Aidoloje certainly had more to contri... Read more

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Teachers’ Burden and Nation Building

Posted By: adminon: November 09, 2022In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, Minister of Labour, NANS, TeachersNo CommentsViews:
Teachers’ Burden and Nation Building

By Mike Kebonkwu Thank goodness, the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ended(???) after eight agonizing months for parents and students alike and relie... Read more

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