For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: JAF, ASUU and NANS Zone D Lead Protest against Education Underfunding ASUU Should Name a Day of National Protest as Next Stage of the Struggle Chinedu Agbebire JAF banner – photo DSM The national “Save Public Education” protest organized by the Joint Action Front (JAF) had its kick-off on Tuesday 13th of August 2013 in Lagos. The
Socialist Party of Nigeria PRESS STATEMENT ASUU STRIKE: ASUU and Trade Unions Must Mobilise for a Day of Mass Protest The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) fully supports ASUU in its ongoing industrial strike in defence of public education at university level. For a country stupendously rich in human and material resources the current state of public education is abnormally
Strikes in the Education Sector: Need for Unity of Education Workers and Students in Struggle Reports of ERC solidarity activities to back on-going ASUU strike By Hassan Taiwo Soweto ERC National Coordinator ERC Protest March at University of Lagos – photo DSM Over the last three months, the education sector has been racked by one disruption after another. It is
Education Rights Campaign SUPPORT THE STRIKE! DON’T BREAK IT University Lecturers and Students United in the Struggle to Fight Neglect of Public Education! Great Nigerian students, there is urgent need for us to act now to save Nigeria’s education sector from a total collapse! It will interest us to know that between 2000 and 2011, Nigeria government earned N48.48 trillion
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Press Statement ERC Backs ASUU’s Indefinite Strike Action Calls on Federal Government to Meet Lecturers Demands Immediately Lecturers! Don’t Sit At Home, For Mass Protest and Demonstrations Students! Support the Strike, Don’t Break It! For a United Struggle of Education Workers and Students to Save Education From Collapse Arising from its NEC meeting at the Olabisi
Police Brutality and Killing of Protesting Students in Nigeria Call for Condemnation, Solidarity and Protests Statement of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) So far this year, nearly 10 students have been shot dead by the police. Most of the shooting have occurred during students protest. The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has publicly condemned this killing including the latest which occurred
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) press statement UNIUYO CRISIS: NO TO KILLING OF PROTESTING STUDENTS Release All Arrested Students Meet All Students Demands and Reopen the University Now For an Independent Probe Panel including Elected Representatives of Students and Staff Unions. The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) demands the immediate reopening of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO), Akwa Ibom, and the meeting
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) press statement DEATH OF NANS SENATE PRESIDENT AND FOUR OTHERS IN AUTO CRASH ERC Condoles with NANS and Students The death of the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Donald Onukaogu Sunday, Dimeji Azeez (a.k.a Fagbocious) and three others is indeed shocking. Reportedly, they died in an auto crash while on their
On-Going ASUP and SSANIP Strike Actions Government Must Meet Demands So That Students can Resume Join Mass Protest on Tuesday 4 June 2013 by 10am in Yabatech, Lagos Lateef Adams (ERC Lagos State Coordinator) ERC members discussing students while circulating leaflets at Yabatech, photo DSM It is now glaring in the eyes of not only the working class in Nigeria,
UPDATE ON POLYTECHNIC STRIKE MILITARIZATION OF MINNA METROPOLIS HALTS ERC MAY 29 SOLIDARITY PROTEST Open Call on NAPS to Mobilise for Further Solidarity Actions Dimeji Macaulay and Awe Michael report The members of Education Rights Campaign (ERC) on May 29, 2013 converged in Minna, Niger state alongside some polytechnic students to hold a protest to demand that government meet the
PRESS STATEMENT Planned Rationalization of Courses in LASU by Lagos State Government University Workers and Students Must Struggle to Stop It The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the planned rationalization of academic programmes at Lagos State University (LASU). The university Governing Council at its 100th meeting resolved, with the backing of the Lagos Government, to embark on rationalization of courses.
Strikes in Polytechnics: Students Protest in Abuja ERC members actively participated By Awe Michael DSM Bida Branch ERC members at Polytechnic Students Protest in Abuja, photo DSM Members of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) the Federal Polytechnic Bida, Niger State Branch were among over one hundred students from different polytechnics in Nigeria who protested in Abuja on May 22, 2013
ERC PRESS STATEMENT ERC SUPPORTS SSANIP STRIKE We Call on The Government To Meet All Demands Now! Give concrete solidarity to Polytechnic strike! We of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) support the on-going strike action embarked upon by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP). SSANIP is demanding payment of the CONTISS 15 salary structure and adequate funding of
Obafemi Awolowo University. Ile-Ife WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO THE ATTEMPTED VICTIMISATION OF ACTIVISTS AGITATING FOR RESTORATION OF STUDENTS’ UNION! Appeal for protest letters and solidarity By Kola Ibrahim Consequent upon the mass pressure from students to restore the union and a planned April 12 Congress of students to actualize this, the authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife,
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN (UI): RECALL DSM MEMBER MICHAEL OGUNDELE NOW! END VICTIMIZATION OF STUDENT ACTIVISTS!! Call for Protest Letters and Solidarity Michael Ogundele: victimised by UI Authorities, photo DSM The Management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has continued its notoriety of victimizing student activists who lead students to challenge its highhandedness and demand improvement in welfare condition. The latest
OAU STUDENTS HOLD ANOTHER INVIGORATING SYMPOSIUM ï¶ AGREED TO A CONGRESS ON 12TH APRIL TO FORM ELECTORAL AND ELECTIONS PETITION COMMITTEES ï¶ NO GOING BACK ON CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS THIS SEMESTER! Audience at OAU STC Symposium, photo DSM It was another thought-provoking session on April 3, 2013 at a public symposium organized by the Students’ Union Transition Committee (SUTC) at
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) OAU ADMINISTRATION MOVE TO VICTIMISE STUDENT ACTIVISTS FOR DEMANDING RESTORATION OF STUDENTS’ UNION STUDENTS MUST RESIST THIS NEW VICTIMISATION ATTEMPT OAU MANAGEMENT MUST WITHDRAW ALL ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THEM AND DISSOLVE THE VINDICTIVE DISCIPLINARY PANEL! APRIL 12 CONGRESS MUST HOLD AS SCHEDULED! The OAU administration has again showed it is diametrically opposed to the democratic and constitutional
Ongoing Strike of Osun State Tertiary Institutions Lecturers Ilesha Students Solidarity Protest Dispersed by Armed Police By Jamal DSM, OSCE Ilesha On Tuesday 12 March, 2013, students of the Osun State College of Education (OSCE) Ilesha organized themselves at the school Motion Ground to embark on a peaceful protest to support the strike action embarked on by CASUOSTI, the umbrella
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) PRESS STATEMENT LECTURERS STRIKE IN OSUN STATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS AREGBESOLA MUST MEET THEIR DEMANDS NOW WE CONDEMN POLICE BRUTAL ATTACK OF STUDENTS PROTESTING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRIKING LECTURERS AT OSCE ILESA RELEASE THE FOUR ARRESTED STUDENTS NOW The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) supports the strike action began yesterday Monday 11 March 2013 by lecturers of
Education Rights Campaign ERC CONDEMNS BRUTAL KILLING OF FOUR PROTESTING STUDENTS OF NASARRAWA STATE UNIVERSITY BY SOLDIERS We Demand Justice! On Monday 25 February 2013, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) received the shocking news of the brutal killing of four students of Nasarrawa State University by the armed soldiers invited by the university management to repress the protest of students