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As NLC Steps Into Hardship Protests in Nigeria, Exposing President Tinubu’s Paradoxes

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Adams Smith, Bono, CD, Civil society, DA, Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s subsidy regime, Empire, Gramsci, NANS, NLC, Oxfam, SCON, The Economist, ‘Who Elected Oxfam?’No CommentsViews:

Barring last minute cancellation or postponement or similar surprises, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) is rolling out its affiliates at last for a test of strength against the Tinubu admi... Read more

Cecelia Abashi, the Death of an Extraordinary Woman

Posted By: adminon: February 22, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Lenin, NANS, Nasarawa Eggon, Overcomer, SCON, UnokaNo CommentsViews:

Plagiarising Bongos Ikwue’s iteration that the Bible must be right is unavoidable here. It is, however, not in where the Bible assures those who knock of finding. Here, it is where the Bible... Read more

Explosive APC Inter-Tendency Punching @ Presentation of Salihu Lukman’s Book on the Party

Posted By: adminon: December 20, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Adams Oshiomhole, APC, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Lion of Bourdillion, NANS, PDP, RadicalsNo CommentsViews:

An investment in a ‘career’ of dissidence can produce an explosive outcome because political parties, governments, caucuses and all such centres of power detest being openly criticised by in... Read more

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

A Historically Significant Shot

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

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

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:

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