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When Memorialisation Turns Into a Site of Struggle for Nigerian Activists

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2026In: People in ActionTags: British colonialism, Lord Lugard, NIPSS, PRP, SAP, Satiru Revolt, SCON, Sokoto Caliphate, UDUS, Zaria GroupNo CommentsViews:
When Memorialisation Turns Into a Site of Struggle for Nigerian Activists

There are many of them nowadays – burials or birthdays or a book presentations for one activist of yore or another. At each one of such event, nostalgia for the past pops up, sometimes... Read more

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Nigerian Activists Contemplate Radical Revivalism @ Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed’s Memorial Symposium

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2026In: People in ActionTags: British colonialism, Lord Lugard, NIPSS, PRP, SAP, Satiru Revolt, SCON, Sokoto Caliphate, UDUS, Zaria GroupNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Activists Contemplate Radical Revivalism @ Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed's Memorial Symposium

Although a return to the barricades looks farfetched, a powerful sense of the radical project in Nigeria as an unfinished mission struck activists and mourners of Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohamme... Read more

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

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

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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:
Cecelia Abashi, the Death of an Extraordinary Woman

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

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Prof Adele Jinadu’s Missing Coalition

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Bolivia, DA, Gramsci, Lenin, Mammangida, SCON, Socialism, WinnebaNo CommentsViews:
Prof Adele Jinadu's Missing Coalition

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria’s Prof Adele Jenaidu has been the source of a number of conceptual innovations of late. Hardship and hunger should not prevent us from further engagement with t... Read more

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Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Algerian independence, Articulatory politics, Classical Marxism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, SCON, ‘Marxism in Africa’No CommentsViews:
Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

If the Nigerian Left or what remains of it has not publicly acknowledged Peter Obi for forcing an ontological moment in there, it might only be because the recovery from the Obi shocker for... Read more

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17 Years of Chris Abashi’s Passage Today

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Lenin, Mrs Cecilia Abashi, NANS, SCONNo CommentsViews:
17 Years of Chris Abashi's Passage Today

It is exactly 17 years today that one of the earliest presidents of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Barrister Chris Abashi died. That was March 15th, 2004. The... Read more

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Memory of Yima Sen As a Revolutionary Future

Posted By: adminon: November 12, 2020In: SpectacleTags: CD, DA, IBB, NADECO, NAFCA, SAP, SCON, UAD, WINNo CommentsViews:
Memory of Yima Sen As a Revolutionary Future

A deeply unfortunate emergency prevented Mallam Y. Z Ya’u from attending the Memorial Lecture for Dr Yima Sen Wednesday, November 11th, 2020. He was billed to speak for the pro-democracy com... Read more

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Are the Radicals Coming Back to Retake Nigerian Politics At Last?

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2018In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, ACIS, IMF, NLC, SCON, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Are the Radicals Coming Back to Retake Nigerian Politics At Last?

Faint drumbeats of radical politics and actions are beginning to be heard across Nigeria again. The question though is whether it is anything new and qualitative or just residual spasms of a... Read more

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Siege Cuts Off Nigerian Travellers As Otukpo Protests a 3-Day Long Bandit Attacks
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