Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

Nigeria on the brink
By - DSM

NIGERIA ON THE BRINK

Only a Working Peoples’ Government can save it INTRODUCTION It is 30 months this November that the government of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has been in office, albeit through the most farcical election in annals of Nigeria. Like in the 8-year rule (or ruination of Nigerian economy) of his predecessor and mentor, Olusegun Obasanjo, Yar’Adua government has unleashed severe neo-liberal attacks