Democratic Socialist Movement

For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria

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PUBLIC EDUCATION ON THE BRINK: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

ERC Holds Public Symposium. Participants Agree Student Loan is No Solution. Demand Adequate Funding of Public Education. By Davy Fidel On Saturday March 9, 2024, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) held a public symposium over the attack on public education including the wave of fee hike and the student loan policy. The ERC has helped expose the students loan scheme

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ENOUGH WITH THE STUDENT LOAN SHENANIGAN!

ERC CALLS ON PRESIDENT TINUBU TO STOP THE NATIONAL DECEIT AND FOCUS ON USING NIGERIA’S RESOURCES TO ADEQUATELY FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION WE DEMAND THAT ALL FEES IN PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS INCREASED IN ANTICIPATION OF THE NOW POSTPONED STUDENTS LOAN SCAM BE REVERSED IMMEDIATELY As Nigerian students receive the news of another postponement of the student loan policy this time indefinitely,

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LET ADA AMAZU GRADUATE!

No One Deserves to Die Because they Want to Earn a Degree For the Reversal of hiked fees at the University of Abuja and Adequate Funding of Public education! The attention of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has been drawn to the predicament of Ada Amazu, a final year student of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Abuja (Uniabuja), who

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TINUBU’S STUDENT’S LOAN POLICY AND THE WAVE OF FEE HIKE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Mass Actions Needed to Defeat Anti-Student Policies Ever since the pronouncement of the student’s loan was made there have been heightened and sporadic attacks on public education through hike in tuition fees, spreading from one tertiary institution to another like a wide fire in harmattan. Sadly, many students continue to think that the government’s loan policy will help address the

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ERC CONDEMNS MICHAEL OKPARA UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT’S INSENSITIVITY TO STUDENTS’ PLIGHT

* WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE REOPENING OF THE SCHOOL, WITHOUT VICTIMIZING ANY STUDENT * WE CALL FOR A REVERSAL OF THE EXORBITANT FEES WHICH IS THE REASON MANY STUDENTS ARE UNABLE TO MAKE PAYMENT; ALL STUDENTS MUST BE ALLOWED TO SIT FOR THE EXAMS The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) strongly condemns the insensitivity of the management of Michael Okpara University of

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ERC Condemns Over 440% Fees Hike at OAUTHC Nursing College

OVER 442.5% INCREMENT OF FEES AT OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL COMPLEX (OAUTHC) COLLEGE OF NURSING SCIENCES IS ANTI-POOR ERC DEMANDS TOTAL REVERSAL NOW WE CALL FOR RESUMPTION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby condemns the increment of fees at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) College of Nursing Sciences. The increment, which was announced

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ERC’s experience intervening in anti-fee hike struggle at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State

On Thursday and Friday, January 4 and 5 respectively, three members of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) visited OOU where students are organizing to resist an over 100 percent increase in school fees as part of a nationwide neo-liberal offensive spearheaded by the Tinubu capitalist regime against public university education in Nigeria. Toheeb Duroorike (ERC Member) reports. Myself, comrade Eko

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ERC Condemns Criminal School Fees Hike in OOU Ago Iwoye

Calls for Mass Actions by Students to demand Reversal The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Ogun state chapter, condemn the recent 100 per cent fees increment by the management of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, with the support of the Dapo Abiodun APC-led government. Without mincing words, this outrageous fees hike is not only criminal  but it’s also the

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INVITATION BY THE DSS TO A “PARLEY”: WE WILL MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE IF INVITATION IS FORMALISED AND LAWYERS’ PRESENCE PERMITTED

ERC Condemns DSS Surveillance of its Leaders and Infiltration of its Meetings On Thursday 14 December 2023, a day after the public unveiling of our new pamphlet “Ten Reasons why Tinubu’s Students Loan is a Scam”, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), the secret police of the Nigerian state, reached out via a phone call to comrade Hassan

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ERC LAUNCHES PAMPHLET ON TINUBU’S STUDENT LOAN

We Call on Nigerian Students to Organise Independent Actions to Reject the Policy and Demand Adequate Funding and Democratic Management of Public Education Report by Sodiq Duroorike, ERC Coordinator, Lagos State The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), on Wednesday 13th December 2023, held a public launch of its pamphlet: “Ten Reasons Why the Tinubu Student Loan Act is A Scam”. This

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One year of Ademola Adeleke/PDP-led government in Osun State: Nothing fundamental to show while much is expected.

27 November, 2023 marks one year of the current Ademola Adeleke/People’s Democratic Party (PDP)-led government of Osun State. Not a few people in the state felt a sigh of relief when Oyetola/APC government, which was synonymous with sadistic anti-worker and anti-poor policies, was ousted in the 16 July, 2022 governorship election. The twelve years of APC under Aregbesola and Oyetola

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WORLD TEACHERS DAY: ERC CALLS FOR N200, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR NIGERIAN TEACHERS

We call for unity between NUT and PRISCTUN to fight for improved pay and working conditions for all teachers and proper funding of education The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) salutes Nigerian teachers on the occasion of this year’s World Teachers Day which takes place every 5th October to celebrate the sacrifices of teachers all over the world. On this day,

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OAU: WE CONDEMN THE OUTRAGEOUS FEE INCREMENT

WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE REVERSAL! All OUT AGAINST ANTI-STUDENT GOVERNMENT: FOR A JOINT STRUGGLE OF STUDENTS AND EDUCATION WORKERS! The attention of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has been drawn to an official release by the university authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, announcing astronomical increase in fees of students. We condemn this callous, unjustifiable and anti-poor increment in fees. This

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UNILAG ANTI-FEE HIKE PROTEST: RELEASE ARRESTED STUDENTS

RELEASE  GIWA TOPNOTCH, FEMI ADEYEYE, PHILIP OLATINWO AND AYODELE ADUWO! PROTEST IS A RIGHT; HALT THE CLAMPDOWN ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS NOW! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls on the Lagos State Commissioner of Police to immediately and unconditionally release comrades Giwa Topnotch (the Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students -NANS), Femi Adeyeye, Philip Olatinwo and Ayodele

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LASU STUDENTS REMEMBER COMRADE OMOMEEWA TWO YEARS AFTER

We continue to cry for Justice!  The Education Student Association of Nigeria Lagos State University chapter (ESAN-LASU) had a memorial event on Friday August 18 in honour of the late Comrade Yusuf Nurudeen Alowonle Omomeewa. A prominent student activist and Socialist, comrade Omomeema was brutally murdered by yet to be apprehended persons two years ago on August 18, 2021 at

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UI: ERC REJECTS THE INCREMENT IN ACCOMODATION FEE AND DEMANDS IMMEDIATE REVERSAL

Students must prevail on Tobiloba-led Students’ Union to mobilize for resistance against hiked accommodation fee and any form of fee hike  We of the Education Rights Campaign, ERC, University of Ibadan branch specially congratulate and welcome to the campus the new students, after almost two years of awaited resumption. At the same time, we urge both the fresh and returning students to reject

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ERC Holds Symposium on Students’ Loan Policy and Fee Hike

As part of its activities to mobilize mass resistance against the onslaught on public education by the Tinubu and APC government, as made obvious by the recently signed Student Loan Act and the wave of fee hike across campuses, The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) held a hybrid public symposium on July 22. The ERC had previously on June 21 held

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NO TO FEE INCREMENT IN UNIABUJA: We Demand Immediate Reversal!

We Condemn the Victimization of Students’activists and Clampdown on Democratic Rights of Students The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) strongly condemns the obnoxious increment in fees imposed on students by the management of University of Abuja (Uniabuja). We consider this increment as fraudulent and insensitive to the economic plights of children of working class and the poor background. We understand that

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STUDENT LOAN SCHEME IS A SCAM: Resist Hike in School Fees at Public Tertiary Institutions

On June 12, 2023, the students’ loan bill was finally signed by President Tinubu and announced to begin the implementation by September. This has revived the discussions around the students’ loan policy and the crises in the education sector. Lackeys of the government are sparing no effort in whitewashing the policy, with some declaring that the policy would provide more