CP JIMOH MOSHOOD’S SUPPORT FOR AKERELE SHOWS THE REIGN OF ILLEGALITY AND ATROCITY IN THE LAGOS POLICE The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) calls for the immediate removal, arrest and criminal prosecution of Adetayo Akerele, the notorious chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, whose tenure has come to symbolize systematic oppression, extortion, intimidation and victimization of motorists and ordinary Lagosians. We
We Condemn the Worsening Security Situation in Ogun State and Call on Gov. Dapo Abiodun and Security Forces to be Alive to their Responsibility The Food and Farmers’ Rights Campaigns (FFRC) brings to the attention of the general public, Dapo Abiodun-led government and security forces, the worsening security situation in the Ikangba/Agoro Axis in particular and Ogun state in general.
United Actions of Working People and Socialist Alternative are Needed to End the Crisis On Christmas Day 2025, the United States launched missiles that reportedly hit two terrorist camps in the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto State, near the border with the neighbouring Niger republic. This airstrike was on the order of the US President Donald
We Call on Ogun State Government and Police to Provide Adequate Security for the Communities For the Setting up of Multi ethnic, Non Sectarian and Multi-Religious Community Defense Committee under the Democratic Control of Community People The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) Ogun State Chapter, wishes to draw the attention of the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led government and the
On Christmas Day 2025, the United States launched missiles that reportedly hit two terrorist camps in the Bauni forest axis of Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto State, near the border with the neighbouring Niger republic. This airstrike was on the order of the US President Donald Trump who was the first to announce it on social media. It was obvious
Widespread banditry, terrorism, and social unrest are direct consequences of failure of capitalism and pro-capitalist policies of successive governments For united, non-sectarian, multi-ethnic, multi-religion and democratically run defense committees in communities The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) strongly condemns the US President Donald Trump’s recent threat of a military action in Nigeria and equally rejects President Bola Tinubu’s hollow nationalist
FFRC Calls for Reversal of all Anti-Poor Policies and Demands Adequate Investments in Both the Social and Real Sectors Including Agriculture to Meet the Needs of the Majority The Food and Farmers’ Rights Campaigns (FFRC) views the recent inclusion of Nigeria in the list of world’s hunger hotspots along with 12 other countries and territories including Yemen, the Democratic Republic
On June 12, protests were held in a few states across the country as a continuation of an expression by the working masses and youth of their rejection of the anti-poor capitalist policies of the Tinubu government and its descent into civilian dictatorship with attacks on democratic rights. In other words, the conduct and action of the Tinubu government, which
ERC Condemns fee disparity in College of Medicine and Continuous silence of the SU-leadership on calls for intervention and anti-fee hike struggle The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), University of Ibadan Chapter, strongly condemns the growing wave of criminal activities among students within the University of Ibadan campus. In recent weeks, reports of missing phones and laptops, and break-ins into hostel
A Democratic Community Response is Needed By Moshood Oshunfunrewa, Coordinator, Ajegunle People’s Movement The residents of Ajegunle in Ajeromi Ifelodun local government, Lagos, continue to suffer gross violation of their rights at the hands of the Nigerian Police Force – now operating under a new name, ‘Tactical Squad’. While the government declared the disbandment of the notorious SARS unit in
MASS KILLINGS IN THE COUNTRY SHOW OBVIOUS FAILURE OF CAPITALISM AND THE SELF-SERVING RULING ELITE The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Argues for a Socialist Alternative to a Rotten System The killings that took place in Bokkos and Bassa Local Government Areas of Plateau State between March 28 and April 16, 2025 are the latest act of genocide that reminds
YRC CONDEMNS THE HARRASSMENT, ASSAULT AND EXTORTION OF A COMMERCIAL MOTORBIKE RIDER BY POLICEMEN FROM OKO-OBA POLICE STATION, ABULE-EGBA/AGEGE LAGOS WE DEMAND REFUND OF N20,000 BRIBE AND NECCESARY DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS AGAINST THE ERRANT POLICE OFFICERS POLICE OFFICERS FROM OKO-OBA POLICE STATION MUST STOP THEIR EXTORTION OF POOR NIGERIANS The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) strongly condemns the inhumane harassment and assault
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the gruesome murder of 16 northerners in Uromi, Edo State. This barbaric killing is the latest jungle justice that has become a recurring decimal in different parts of Nigeria. Over 20 northerners were found in a truck in Uromi enroute to Kano on March 28, 2025 with traditionally made guns (Dane Guns) and
The rise of a new cross-border, transnational insurgent group, called Lakurawa, in the already battered northwest part of Nigeria has raised another spectre of Boko-Haram-type protracted insurgency war in that region of Nigeria. Already, the northwest is battling different security challenges notably deadly banditry and kidnapping. Indeed, the whole northern Nigeria is bedeviled with various security threats such as religious
CDWR DEMANDS AN UNCONDITIONAL AND IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MICHAEL ADARAMOYE, BABATUNDE OLUAJO AND OTHERS The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) considers President Tinubu’s broadcast speech of Sunday August 4, 2024 as a display of arrogance and insensitivity towards the harrowing plight and hardship of Nigerians. He actually used the broadcast to double down on his failed anti-people reform
Democratically Organised Community Policing and Mass Gainful Employment Can Reduce Violent Crimes Drastically By Chinedu Bosah The working masses are facing different attacks on all fronts. On one hand, they are grappling with the heavy weight of exploitation and mass looting of public resources and funds, on the other hand, they are paying the heavy price of kidnapping and other
—WE PROPOSE GENERAL MEETING OF COMMUNITY PEOPLE TO DISCUSS THE INSECURITY The Ajegunle People’s Movement (APM), a community campaign organization of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), calls on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Lagos State government to be alive to their basic responsibility of protecting lives and property in the face of the worsening insecurity in Ajeromi-Ifelodun LGA.
It is time to build a mass political alternative that represents the genuine interests of the working masses and youth The 2023 general elections followed a campaign season which saw all the capitalist politicians busy appealing to ethnic, religious and primordial sentiments, instead of trying to sell the ideas that they represent and the policies and programmes that they plan
ONYEKA EMMANUEL IBEH KILLED AS HE SDAT IN HIS CAR BY INSPECTOR OBI EBRI IN ASABA WE CRY FOR JUSTICE! The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) condemns the brutal murder of Onyeka Emmanuel Ibeh by trigger-happy policemen in Asaba, Delta state. Mr Ibeh was fatally shot, in the presence of his newly wedded and pregnant wife, while sitting inside his car
* We Demand Democratic Probe and Diligent Prosecution of the Murderer * Reforms are not enough; disband the Neo-Colonial and Oppressive Nigerian Police Force The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) strongly condemns the murder of Mrs. Bolanle Raheem, a Lagos-based legal practitioner, who was killed by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Drambi Vandi attached to the Ajah police division, on Christmas