By Denja Yaqub Consistently committed to deploying his unique intellectual capacity and organising skills for decades, he is one of those who have brought Marxist- socialist thoughts closer to the ordinary person in effortless manners, not just through his writings but in practic... Read more
By Kayode Komolafe The theme to explore in the virtual conference to mark the 75th birthday of Comrade Eddie Madunagu is deliberately framed as “Progressive Politics as the Answer to the National Question: Problems and Prospects.” The conference, billed for May 15, 2021, the birt... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu Forty-five years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade of the same age, I left for a rural community somewhere between Gbongan and Ile-Ife in present-day Osun State. There we joined others, similarly inspired like us... Read more
By Chido Onumah Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu who turns 75 on May 15, 2021, has been a consistent voice for the radical transformation of Nigeria in the last five decades. For this reason, comrades, friends, associates, and students, will organize a conference on the theme: “Progressi... Read more
At its meeting, held today, 11th May, 2021, in Asaba, the Delta State capital, the Southern Governors Forum reviewed the situation in the nation generally and focused on the current security situation, agitations/restructuring, prospect for inter-state collaboration and partnersh... Read more
By Denja Yaqub During the years when defiant academics held sway in tertiary schools in Nigeria, there were very many “hot heads’’ even a child in secondary school destined for critical learning had already been used to reading about in newspapers and possibly watched on televisi... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu About three years ago, a young comrade of mine who was then a student of History and International Relations at the Federal University Lafia, Nassarawa State of Nigeria, asked me a loaded personal question. He told me he prepared the question after consultation... Read more
By Chido Onumah Two weeks ago, I lost a comrade, brother, and friend, Innocent Chukwuma. Innoma, as I called him, was 55, and until a few months ago when he retired, the regional director (West Africa) of Ford Foundation. Every waking moment in the last two weeks has left me thin... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu My last article, “Further notes to the Nigerian Left” (late February 2021), was a deliberately condensed message. It was so because I feared that Nigeria was approaching another dangerous bend in its history. I therefore wanted to indicate, even for my own self... Read more
By Odia Ofeimun Each time it was discovered that the ship of state was foundering, without compass, and no one seemed to have a handle on how to navigate with a proper goal-orientation, the question, Whither Nigeria?, has been asked as a way of giving expression to where we are a... Read more
Press Release With great sadness but immense gratitude to God for the life he lived, the family of Ezeji Chief I. U. Nwokocha, former National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), announces his passing on February 25, 2021, after a brief illness. He was aged 88. The... Read more
By Edwin Madunagu The Nigerian Left has largely neglected, if not deliberately avoided a renewed ideological struggle which has become a strong factor in both the general turbulence and violence enveloping the whole country and the associated power struggle within the ruling clas... Read more
Introduction Nigeria is in dire straits. All over the country, Nigerian citizens, including children, are killed daily by terrorists and criminals as well as in extra-judicial killings by state actors with the government doing little or nothing about it. The government, through... Read more
