SCON Archives - Intervention

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: LifeworldTags: 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

Prof Adele Jinadu’s Missing Coalition

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Bolivia, DA, Gramsci, Lenin, Mammangida, SCON, Socialism, WinnebaNo CommentsViews:

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

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:

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

17 Years of Chris Abashi’s Passage Today

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Lenin, Mrs Cecilia Abashi, NANS, SCONNo CommentsViews:

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

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:

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

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:

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