For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
DANCING ROUND THE FUEL PRICE HIKE By Adeola Soetan As the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the world, the steady rise of price of crude oil in international market is expected to be an economic blessing in oil revenue, human capital and infrastructural development but the paradox is a bout of economic misery occasioned by higher prices for
SAULA MURDER: One Killing, Too Many By Demola Yaya & Sankara On January 7, 2008, Lagos commuters who were going for one business or the other were stranded for most part of the day especially in areas like Ikotun, Iyana Ipaja, Agege, Ikeja and Oshodi. Why? Members of Lagos State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) had withdrawn their
ARGUING FOR A FIGHTING WORKING PEOPLES’ PARTY By Alayande Stephen T. The political equation again has brought to the fore the need for a Mass Working Peoples’ Party. More than before, the masses are suffering and are reduced to slaves in their own country, even amidst abundant and stupendous wealth. The perspective of building a campaign for a genuine Mass
Pay A Living Pension Now! Being the text of a Press Conference by CDWR on the Plight of Pensioners on January 16, 2008. The motto of Nigerian pensioners reads, “Rest is sweet after retirement”. Yes, this is a statement of fact, but for retired workers, their daily harrowing experience has proved the motto to be a mere wishful thinking. Rest
PENSIONERS MUST BE ABLE TO LIVE CDWR Hold Press Conference On The Plight of Pensioners In Nigeria By Emmanuel Adikwu On January 16, 2008, the Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) held a press conference, at the International Press Centre (IPC) Ogba, Lagos, on the plight of pensioners. The statement, published below, was presented by comrade Rufus Olusesan, the
REMOVAL OF RIBADU AND WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION It is a fact that corruption is a big social problem militating against the development of the economy and the welfare of the citizens. According to a World Bank estimate, over $400billion have been looted by capitalist politicians and their contractor allies from the nation’s wealth in the past 4 decades. There is
2008 BUDGET As Usual, Not for the Ordinary Nigerian Peluola Adewale President Umaru Yar’Adua tagged the 2008 Appropriation the budget for the ordinary Nigerian. Not a few poor working masses will ask him to tell that to the marines. He informed that the budget “gives priority to, and makes ample provision for improving physical infrastructure, particularly, power and transportation, human
Workers Kick Against Privatisation of NITEL And Airports By Demola Yaya In the past few weeks, Nigerian workers and their unions have been waging some titanic struggles against privatization of some commanding sectors of the economy. Already, the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSAN) had on February 26, 2008 held a peaceful sensitization rally against the Federal
Socialist Democracy – March-April 2008 2007 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL VERDICT ON YAR’ADUA: A Grand Judicial Beatification Of Electoral Fraud After eight months of intensive and very expensive legal tussles over the fairness and legitimacy of the 2007 general elections, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Tuesday February 26, 2008 gave a verdict which endorsed the election of Musa Yar’Adua
Inferno in Ajegunle A Call for Provision of Decent and Affordable Housing for the Poor Masses About 200 houses were razed to the ground and two lives lost on the trail of a huge inferno. This is the latest, and indeed the worst, in the spate of the fire incidents that have almost become commonplace in some parts of Ajegunle,
KENYAN’S RIGGED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: A TRAGIC AFRICAN PHENOMENON By Segun Sango On December 27, 2007, Kenyans voted in general elections to elect a new government. But as mostly happened in Africa, it is the ordinary Kenyans that instead got short changed. Against the run of public support and public opinion polls, President Kibaki, one of the 3 leading presidential candidates