Free Abdulmalik Sa’idu and Fejiro Oliver Now Stop attacks on democratic rights The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) demands immediate end to the savage attacks on democratic rights of citizens Abdulmalik Saidu and Fejiro Oliver. The former is currently languishing in detention for posting comments on the Facebook which, purportedly, “insults” the person of Kastina State Governor, Ibrahim
SPN CONDEMNS THE DEATH SENTENCE ON 12 SOLDIERS FREE THE CONDEMNED SOLDIERS NOW! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the death sentence on 12 soldiers by the Brig. Gen. CC Okonkwo led nine-man General Court Martial. It is the height of crudity and insensitivity for the affected soldiers to be sentenced to death for protesting against a command that
SPN Challenges INEC’s Rejection of its Application in Court Solidarity Songs after SPN Conference 2014, photo by DSM The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) held a press conference yesterday, September 16, 2014, in Lagos at the International Press Centre (IPC) to make public the rejection of the party’s application for registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) despite fulfilling
BOKO HARAM’S “ISLAMIC CALIPHATE” AND CAPTURING OF TOWNS REVEAL FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT For a Working Peoples’ Political Alternative Now! By Ayo Ademiluyi In an apparent replication of the declaration of an “Islamic State” in some parts of Iraq and Syria by the terrorist ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Shams) group, Boko Haram insurgents recently declared Gwoza, Borno State
ONE BILLION DOLLAR LAGOS STATE DEBT FASHOLA GOVERNMENT IS LEAVING A LEGACY OF WOES We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Lagos State Chapter, strongly decry the legacy of $1 billion debt burden that the outgoing Babatunde Fashola government is leaving behind for the mass of working people and the poor in the state. According to media reports, the
RAPE CASE REVEALS THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF HEALTH SECTOR IN OYO STATE For Adequate Funding of Health Care under Democratic Control The Oyo State Chapter of Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) describes as disturbing and ridiculous the recent media reports of how a medical doctor at the General Hospital in Eruwa could not carry out a verification test on a
EBOLA OUTBREAK: A CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Profit drive obstructs treatment and prevention At the end of August the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim began a co-authored article published in the Washington Post by writing that “If the Ebola epidemic devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone had instead struck Washington, New York or Boston, there is no
OOU: AMOSUN SHOULD MEET THE DEMANDS OF STUDENTS AND REOPEN THE UNIVERSITY NOW! FOR ADEQUATE FUNDING OF EDUCATION IN OGUN STATE We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Ogun State strongly condemn the onslaught of the Ibikunle Amosun government on education in the state. In a sheer demonstration of an attack on democratic rights, the state government has shut
MOCPED: A Basket of Crisis Students Groan under Inadequate Facilities and Outrageous Fees Graduates of Degree Program Lament Non-Release of Result/Certificate Four Years after Graduation By ERC Reporters Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), formerly known as Lagos State College of Primary Education (LACOPED) located in Epe, is a teacher training college established in 1994. Today the College is
ERC CONDEMNS VICTIMISATION OF STUDENT ACTIVISTS AT THE OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the latest wave of victimization of student activists and leaders at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, by the Prof. Tale Omole-led university management and calls for the immediate and unconditional recall of 8 suspended student activists. On 18th August, 2014, the management
EBOLA OUTBREAK IN PORT HARCOURT A TRUE PICTURE OF HEALTH CRISIS WORSENED BY FAILURE OF CAPITALIST ELITE We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Rivers State Chapter, view the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus to Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, as a true confirmation of the failure of the Jonathan regime in the fight against the epidemic