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Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Chinua Achebe, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y DanjumaNo CommentsViews:
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

On September 3rd, 2016 when Intervention first carried this piece, (https://intervention.ng/4465/), it was responded to as disrespectful and there was a price to pay. But Intervention has ne... Read more

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May Day Celebration in the Time of Demobilising Social Distancing

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2020In: GovernanceTags: 1886, Chicago-USA, NLC, SolidarityNo CommentsViews:
May Day Celebration in the Time of Demobilising Social Distancing

The author, an erstwhile chief publicist of the nationalist tradition in the NLC writes on the paradox of a virus rather than repression compelling workers to forgo making this year’s May Da... Read more

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25 Years of the ‘Marital Turn’ Among Comrades in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 22, 2020In: People in ActionTags: CD, NANS, NLC, NMA, NUNS, PYMN, SAP, WINNo CommentsViews:
25 Years of the 'Marital Turn' Among Comrades in Nigeria

It was, indeed, a new phase when many stalwarts of the long, National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) led struggle against military dictatorship started getting married around the l... Read more

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Radical Activists Reject Break – Up of Nigeria, Celebrates Swedish Political Economist, Bjorn Beckman (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2020In: People in ActionTags: CRD, MPN, NLC, Prof Ango Abdullahi, WINNo CommentsViews:
Radical Activists Reject Break – Up of Nigeria, Celebrates Swedish Political Economist, Bjorn Beckman (2)

Two speakers did not agree with Prof Bayo Olukoshi. They were Prof Ebere Onwudiwe and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State. Onwudiwe argues that thematising the event in terms of the f... Read more

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Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2020In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Claude Ake, Marxism, NANS, NLC, Political economyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Four months after his death, friends, former colleagues, ex-students and critics of the late Prof Bjorn Beckman are gathering to take another look at his scholarship and activism in relation... Read more

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Addressing the Widening Rich-Poor Gap in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'Time to Care', ASUU, Barrack Obama, MNCs, NLC, Oxfam, TUC, WEFNo CommentsViews:
Addressing the Widening Rich-Poor Gap in Nigeria

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed From January 21st-24th, the World Economic Forum (WEF) met in Davos, marking and celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the meeting. Over 3000 big shots in international... Read more

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Nigeria’s Ironic ‘Revolution’

Posted By: adminon: August 06, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'Revolution', Bandwagoning, NLC, PRPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Ironic ‘Revolution’

August 5th, 2019 has come and gone in Nigeria without an outpouring anywhere comparable to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt in 2011. But, why might that have been the case? Intervention has alr... Read more

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Threat of Revolution Sets Nigeria on Edge

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Anarchism, ASUU, CORE, NLC, PRPNo CommentsViews:
Threat of Revolution Sets Nigeria on Edge

Activists of the Coalition for Revolution, (CORE) in Nigeria have managed to displace or push to lesser media prominence the exploits of bandits, Boko Haram terrorists and kidnappers. For th... Read more

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In Dapo Olorunyomi, Nigeria’s Generation Radical Turns On Itself (1)

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Dapsy, Generation Radical, NANS Charter of Demand, NLCNo CommentsViews:
In Dapo Olorunyomi, Nigeria’s Generation Radical Turns On Itself (1)

There can be nothing about the fanfare around the public presentation yesterday of Testimony to Courage, a book on Dapo Olorunyomi that might not be justified. Dr. Chidi Odinkalu, the book r... Read more

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Governors, Power and Probity in Recent Media Coverage of Corruption in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2019In: FlashbackTags: 'Babanriga', 'Risk Society', 'The Candidates', CDC, CISLAC, CJN, EFCC, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor Abdullahi Yari, Governor Samuel Ortom, HEDA, ICPC, London-Paris Club, NLC, SANNo CommentsViews:
Governors, Power and Probity in Recent Media Coverage of Corruption in Nigeria

This is the fifth and last in the series of interpretive data on the question of how power might shape probity after the 2019 elections. Compiled within a MacArthur Foundation gaze on the ‘r... Read more

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