For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
POWER SITUATION CONTINUES TO WORSEN AFTER PRIVATISATION For Renationalisation of power sector under democratic control By Chinedu Bosah It is no news that electricity supply has worsened since the power sector was privatized in November 2013.. The government and its spokespersons have continued to lay the blame on vandals and insufficient gas to the power sector. Despite degenerating power supply,
GM FOODS: On the Basis of Capitalism Genetic Modification is designed to Benefit Corporate Businesses By Eko John Nicholas Globally, the controversy over the use of food and other goods derived from genetically modified organisms, as against the conventional ones, and other uses of genetic engineering in medicine, research, industry and agriculture has not been settled. There are debates on
NIGERIA: Africa’s Biggest Economy is Big for nothing for the Poor and Working People By Peluola Adewale No doubt this is not the best of time for President Goodluck Jonathan. His government has been exposed as peddling meaningless phrases while wholesale looting continues and the country shows growing signs of disintegration. The Boko Haram’s abduction of over 200 Chibok school
ABDUCTION OF OVER 200 SCHOOL GIRLS BY BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS By Segun Sango National Chairperson Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Doubtlessly, the Boko Haram insurgency is the most horrific political expression currently ravaging Nigeria’s capitalist state. In this respect, the abduction of over 200 school girls at Chibok female secondary school in Borno State, North-East of Nigeria now for almost
SOCIALIST PARTY OF NIGERIA SUBMITS APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION ON JUNE 12, 2014 On Thursday June 12, 2014 the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), submitted its application for registration at the INEC office in Abuja. Hitherto the SPN has received a letter from INEC with Re: INEC/EPM/563/1/20 on the 14th day of April, 2014. In full compliance of the request made
LASU: Struggle Forces Government to Reduce Hiked fees by 34% To 60% Government’s Offer is Less Than Satisfactory But Consistent and Uncompromising Struggle Can Win More On Wednesday June 11, 2014, the Babatunde Raji Fashola-led Lagos State government announced an offer to reduce the hiked fees at the Lagos State University (LASU) by a range of 34% to 60%. This
GOVERNMENT MUST MEET THE DEMANDS OF LASU STUDENTS ON FEE REDUCTION! For united action and solidarity protests involving staff unions and students union The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) expresses its unflinching solidarity with the ongoing mass occupation undertaken by the Students’ Union of Lagos State University at the Governor’s office. We call on the All Progressive Party (APC) controlled Lagos
10th anniversary By Peluola Adewale Rotimi, photo by DSM We are republishing this obituary to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Rotimi Ewebiyi who played a key political and organisational role in the building the DSM during the military dictatorship and the first years of civilian rule. RE is dead! It is shocking and heart-rending. This is a
ERC condemns arrest and arraignment of LASU students Continue protests until the fees are reversed The Education Rights Campaign condemns the arrest and arraignment of eight students of Lagos State University (LASU) following the protest led by the Students Union on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 along Oshodi end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway. We also welcome the steadfastness of the students in
ERC condemns Police Repression of Protesting LASU Students Reverse the Fees Now! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the assault on protesting students of Lagos State University (LASU) by the police in Lagos on Tuesday June 3, 2014 on the order of the Lagos State Government. The students in their hundreds led by the Students’ Union executive continued their peaceful
Increase in Electricity Tariff is Callous and Shameful We call on NLC, TUC, NUEE, SSAEC, etc to declare 24-hour strike and protests The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns in absolute terms the latest obnoxious hike in electricity tariffs by the government in collusion with the private owners of electricity companies. According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), a
Strike in Osun tertiary Institutions: Aregbesola Govt. should Accede to Demands of Striking Workers We condemn the strong-arm tactics of the government We call of striking workers and students to organize united protests The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Osun State Chapter, condemns the indifferent attitude of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government to the ongoing strike of the teaching
PLAN TO HIKE FEES IN OAU: ERC Says NO Education Rights Campaign press statement Over the past few days, the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife has been agog with agitations and protests by students over plans by the Management to hike fees in the University. According to the details of the plan, the hike will affect mainly fresh students
OAU Students protest against obnoxious fee hike By Sogo Oladele DSM OAU Branch OAU Students Protest March to Ife town, photo by DSM Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, numbering over 5, 000, trooped out on 20 May 2014 to protest the astronomical increment of fresh students’ fee from N17,000 to about N80,000, (excluding the acceptance fee of
Reject Planned Fee Increase in OAU Student Union Should Call an Immediate Congress Mass Actions Including Protests, Rallies, Media Campaign Should be Organized ASUU, SSANU, NASU, NAAT and Alumni Association Should Reject the Fees The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby totally rejects the planned fee increment by management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. We call on Nigerian students, especially
ASUU NDC 2014 ERC Salutes ASUU for Championing the Struggle to Save the Public University System from Collapse The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) warmly welcomes the leadership and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to this year’s edition of the biennial National Delegate Conference of the union. No doubt ASUU has demonstrated how the rest of the
Electricity Workers Union Pickets DISCOS over Pension, Retrenchment and Attacks on Union Right Electricity Privatisation must be reversed! For a Day of General Strike and Mass Protest By Dimeji Macaulay Protest March, photo DSM The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), in conjunction with Joint Action Front (JAF), on Thursday May 8, 2014 picketed the
ABDUCTED GIRLS: WE SAY NO TO IMPERIALIST INTERVENTION! NLC and TUC must mobilize mass protests and one-day general strike against terrorist attacks on poor working masses, students & youths, joblessness, poverty wages etc Socialist Party of Nigeria press statement May 13, 2014 We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) wholeheartedly welcome the campaigns for the return of the abducted
ASUP, COEASU AND ERC PROTEST REPRESSED BY POLICE More Actions Needed To Win the Struggle Dimeji Macaulay Hassan Taiwo Soweto, ERC National Coordinator, addressing ASUP, COEASU and ERC protest rally, photo DSM Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) with hundreds of students led
CHIBOK GIRLS ABDUCTION Can Solution to Boko Haram Insurgency Be Found Under Capitalism? By Hassan Taiwo Soweto The abduction on April 14 by Boko Haram of over 200 girls from a public secondary school in Chibok – a small town in Borno State – has sparked global outrage. Widespread condemnation has come from far and near and almost the entire