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The Maroonsquare Discourse 2023.
Theme: The Nigerian Student Movement (1982 - 1992). Holding on Thursday, 9th November, 2022 at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.

The Maroonsquare Discourse 2023.
Theme: The Face of Poverty in Nigeria. Holding on Wednesday, 8th November, 2022 at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.

...why do so many relationships fail? And is there anything we can do to save them before it’s too late?

Why are Marriages Failing? - Maroonsquare Last year, around 42% of marriages in the UK ended in divorce. In opposite s*x marriages, nearly two-thirds of divorces were initiated by women. So, why do so many relationships fail? And is there anything we can do to save them before it’s too late?

....writerly – critic who is so much concerned about his dying country run by a bandit class masquerading as a ruling class. This class and its ilk are like dubious merchants trading in the commodity of power. A Thief and His Apprentices is a textualisation of what Chiemeke has experienced, seen and felt and known as a conscious student, an activist, human rights worker and crusader, radical lawyer and a Pan-Africanist with a deep sense and understanding of Nigeria and the world order.

'A Thief and His Apprentice’ where Dubious Merchants Trade in Power - Maroonsquare Book Review The Nigerian crisis has deepened so much with devastating impacts on the people and the country itself. Many otherwise hopeful and patriotic citizens are beginning to doubt justifiably the possibility of the country surviving having been consistently and continually ravished by an irresp...

The Maroonsquare Discourse 2022 is here, titled: The Root Cause of Farmers-Herders Crisis in Nigeria (Reviewing the research report of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation report). Holding on Friday, 4th November, 2022 at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos.

...the Niger Delta has not known peace. In this power-packed, riveting book, titled The Riddle of the Oil Thief, HRM, King Bubaraye Dakolo, the Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom in Bayelsa State, gives the history of oil in Nigeria and the damaging consequences the resource and its management have brought to the Niger Delta communities. The book which gives an appearance of a faction is by every standard of conception and reading a factual reality of the sorrow and death that have become the story and lot of the Niger Delta.

The Riddle of the Oil Thief: The Story of Exploitation and Despoliation of the Niger-Delta - Maroonsquare Oil, the greasy fluid has become a curse to Nigeria with all the trappings ofunderdevelopment in display. The Niger Delta peoples of Nigeria and their environmenthave suffered irretrievably and irredeemably the shockwaves of the curse of oil in all itsramifying dimensions.Since 1914, when Lord Lugar...

The corporate press facilitated the commission of horrific crimes by promoting the war as a “just cause,” a necessary response to September 11, 2001. Those who exposed the real character of the war in Afghanistan—including Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Daniel Hale—were locked up in prison. READ MORE

And so it begins again: The media recycles Afghanistan war lies - Maroonsquare In the days following the desperate evacuation of US troops from Afghanistan, the corporate press has launched an international propaganda campaign raising concerns for the “human rights” of residents of the Central Asian country. For the last 20 years, the corporate media and imperialist powers...

At The Maroonsquare two-day Discourse on National Development held on the 1st and 2nd of July, 2021 held at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos with the theme; Identity Politics and the National Question in Nigeria sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Mr. Adewale Adeoye discusses the issue of the National Question & Self-Determination in Nigeria. In his paper, he argued that the Nigeria state is a state made up of nationalities that were fused together by the process of colonialism. READ MORE AT

The National Question and Self-determination in Nigeria - Maroonsquare At The Maroonsquare two-day Discourse on National Development held on the 1st and 2nd of July, 2021 held at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos with the theme; Identity Politics and the National Question in Nigeria sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundatio...