FIRST 2 YEARS OF JONATHAN ADMINISTRATION: Glitz and Glamour of the Midterm Report Cannot Hide the Failure (By Peluola Adewale) In May President Goodluck Jonathan celebrated the first two years of his administration with a self-praising and highfalutin midterm report. He was elected in 2011 election though he had been in power as the acting President since 2009 following the
SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2013 EDITION EDUCATION CRISIS: Need for United Mass Action (By Kola Ibrahim, Protem Secretary, Osun State SPN) That education in Nigeria is in its death agony is no more news on the basis of facts being reeled out daily. From chronically inadequate facilities, to poor conditions of study and living of students, inadequate staff, poor
OSCOED Ilesa: Students and Staff must unite against exploitation and terrible conditions DSM Reporters The management of the Osun State College of Education (OSCOED), Ilesa would have had a lot to explain to anti-graft agencies, if we have responsible government, going by revelations of sheer exploitation of students under various guises. About four years ago, the institution was closed down
Exploitation and Repression in OSCOTECH, Esa-Oke: Students Need to Struggle By ERC Reporters With unprecedented exploitation and repression of students by the management of Osun State College of Technology (OSCOTECH), Esa-Oke, students have every right to struggle. While the management of the school claimed that hand-outs are not compulsory, the same management has refused to stop chronic exploitation of students
Press Statement Osun State Government Should Pay Retirees The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) Osun State Chapter calls on the government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State to immediately commence the full payment of outstanding pension and pension arrears of retirees in the state. Currently, some sections of the retirees have been processed without being paid a
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Press Statement LABARAN MAKU’S SCAREMONGERING ON ASUU STRIKE: GOVT CAN SHUT DOWN IF IT MUST; IT WOULD BE GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH On 4th September, 2013, the Minister of information Mr. Labaran Maku, in an attempt to give the false impression that the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement is not implementable, declared that government activities could shut
2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS AND THE WORKING MASSES Segun Sango, DSM General Secretary Under the timetable of Nigeria’s current constitution, the working and suffering masses may have to endure the country’s rulers at central and state levels until the next general elections which unfortunately are still some twenty months away! But so huge is the level of economic and political failure
Socialist Party of Nigeria PRESS STATEMENT NLC NEC Communiqué: Labour Must Go Beyond Scratching the Surface NLC, TUC Should Mobilise for 48-hour Strike on Minimum Wage and in Support of ASUU Struggle The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) welcomes the recent decision of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to take up some issues affecting the