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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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Radicals @ War Over Corruption in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 10, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, BUK, Chris Abashi, CLO, INEC, MAAS, NANS, NANS Charter of Demands, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Radicals @ War Over Corruption in Nigeria

The media is the mother of all contested spaces. He who goes to speak has also gone to hear. It is thus that it is the surest conflict manager by oxygenating the inter-discursive space such... Read more

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Comrade Segun Sango(SS): Memories of Decades of Comradeship and Friendship

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2022In: People in ActionTags: DSM, LASCO, LM, NANS, NCP, NLC, PYMN, SPN, TUC, UAD, ULSUNo CommentsViews:
Comrade Segun Sango(SS): Memories of Decades of Comradeship and Friendship

Notwithstanding the retirement notice that the #EndSARS generation is believed to have served the generation behind the radical nationalism of the 1980s, stars in the politics of radical cha... Read more

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Updated: When Gem Tied the Nuptial Knots

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Anselm Akele, Authoritarianism, Gem, NANSNo CommentsViews:
Updated: When Gem Tied the Nuptial Knots

“We” seem to be unable to get out of the excitement about Gem Akele’s wedding last Saturday, manifesting, for instance, in the insistence that pictures of the husband were... Read more

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Writing Corruption: Kole Shettima and the Challenge of Consolidating Generational Exceptionalism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2022In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Femi Falana (SAN), MacArthur Foundation, NANS, Panadol, Prof Attahiru Jega, WINNo CommentsViews:
Writing Corruption: Kole Shettima and the Challenge of Consolidating Generational Exceptionalism in Nigeria

This piece contends that there is a challenge of consolidation of the exceptionalism that can be argued for the designers, ideologues, activists, hand clappers and other minders or protagoni... Read more

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Salihu Lukman As the Exit of a Fall Guy

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2022In: SpectacleTags: APC, Enterism, GCAP, Jigawa Talakawa Summit, NANS, NGF, PDP, Prof Raufu MustaphaNo CommentsViews:
Salihu Lukman As the Exit of a Fall Guy

To the extent that he is a former president of the National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) in the heydays of the radical nationalist platform, Salihu Lukman fits into the category... Read more

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A Critical Celebration of the Vocation of Dissent in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2021In: FlashbackTags: #EndSARS, Aba Women’ riot, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, Christopher Sapara-Williams, CLO, Decree 2, Herbert Macaulay, Iva Valley, Kanmi Ishola Osobu, Kitoyi Ajasa, NADECO, NANSNo CommentsViews:
A Critical Celebration of the Vocation of Dissent in Nigeria

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (PhD) The week when the Justice Doris Okuwobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Lekki Massacre and the #EndSARS uprising in Lagos of October 2020 submitted its... Read more

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Creative Leadership Or An Early Warning From the ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’?

Posted By: adminon: October 16, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Early Warning, NANS, SUGNo CommentsViews:
Creative Leadership Or An Early Warning From the 'Leaders of Tomorrow'?

This cover picture should attract critical perusal from the centres of power.  Is it evidence of creativity in leadership or an Early Warning from those the society loves to refer to as lead... Read more

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