For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
WE CONDEMN THE VIOLENT CLAMPDOWN ON THE PEACEFUL PROTEST OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITY LOKOJA STUDENTS BY POLICE AND DSS OFFICERS ALL THE DEMANDS OF THE STUDENTS FOR A SAFE CAMPUS MUST BE MET! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) sternly condemns the violent clampdown on a peaceful protest organized by students of Federal University Lokoja over the tragic death of 4 students
WE PLACE THE BLAME FOR THIS TRAGIC LOSS ON THE INEPTITUDE OF THE UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT STUDENTS MUST FIGHT TO COMPEL THE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE MEASURES TO PREVENT RECURRENCE The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condoles with students of Federal University of Lokoja over the tragic loss of 7 students, who died under awful circumstances on Monday
ERC hails UCH protest by Students Union and calls for similar action in UI to demand better welfare condition before second semester exams fully begins The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, University of Ibadan (UI) branch welcomes the decision by the Bolaji Aweda leadership of the Students’ Union to organize a protest at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan on Wednesday,
Comrade Bene Madunagu, who died recently and is being buried in Calabar today, January 17, was a striking example of a dedicated and committed socialist. As a working-class oriented class fighter, her monumental contributions to the struggles for the liberation of Nigerian working masses and the poor, and particularly that of women, are perhaps under-documented or not as highlighted as
WE CALL FOR THE REVERSAL OF THIS UNJUST POLICY, AND IMMEDIATE MOBILIZATION OF ALL AFFECTED STUDENTS The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) strongly condemns the recent decision of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to exclude Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates who completed their National Diploma (ND) through a part-time programme. This policy not only undermines the efforts of thousands of
The Education Rights Campaign, ERC, OAU branch, strongly condemns the deliberate power rationing by the university management. It is no longer news that the university now rations electricity with a complete power outage of more than 6 hours at specific hours of the day. If there is a legacy the Professor Bamire’s administration is leaving with students, it will be
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Oyo State Chapter condemns a recent wave of fee hikes across the Oyo State owned tertiary institutions and demands an immediate reversal. By Nnamdi Ochi. ERC, Oyo State Secretary According to media reports, at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), the school fees which used to range from N261,000 to N283,000 during the 2023/2024
ERC demands an immediate reversal of fee hike and adequate funding of all the state-owned tertiary institutions We call on the state NLC, TUC and civil society organisations to also demand the reversal of the fee hikes The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Oyo State Chapter, condemns a recent wave of fee hikes across the Oyo State owned tertiary institutions and
We Commend Students’ Union Leadership for Rejecting the Hike and Urge them to Mobilise Students for Mass Actions The Education Rights Campaign strongly condemns the planned increment in school fee by the authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. According to a statement issued by the Students’ Union of the university, the management plan to increase sundry charges by 50
SUFFERING OF OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY’S (OOU) AGO IWOYE STUDENTS: ONLY MASS STRUGGLE CAN GUARANTEE BETTER LEARNING CONDITIONS Since the criminal hike in tuition fees, not a few students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, Ogun State may have been left with options of either robbing a bank in order to afford the high fees or dropping out of school.
Students must remain resolute as none of the offers by the university administration is acceptable The goal must be ‘Fee must Fall Now!’ The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) University of Ibadan (UI) branch stands with the mass of students as they continue the struggle for a reversal of school fees hikes, agreeing with them that the options presented by the
The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) welcomes the planned August nationwide #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest and calls on all those who are dissatisfied with the prevailing condition of hunger and hardship in Nigeria to join. As the saying goes, you can’t beat a child and expect the child not to cry. The Tinubu administration cannot subject the Nigerian working people and youth to
We urge workers’ unions on campus to take immediate solidarity actions The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) University of Ibadan branch commends the mass of students of the university for embarking on a peaceful protest to demand an immediate withdrawal of an unfortunate schedule of electricity supply in the university recently released by university administration and reversal of the university current
WE REMEMBER AFRIKA AND 4 OTHERS! JOIN THE ERC TO BUILD AN INDEPENDENT, DEMOCRATIC, AND MASS BASED STUDENTS UNION TO FIGHT CULTISM AND ANTI-STUDENT POLICIES Today makes it 25 years after the bloody cult attack which took the lives of five students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife. The slain students included a 21-year-old 400-Level law student and the then Secretary-General
Students’ Fees Should be Recalculated at the Old Rate of N584.2, While the Universities Cover for the Difference Students’ Unions Must Take Up this Campaign in all Campuses Where Nigerian Students are Affected For a United Struggle of Students and Staff to Force University Managements to Accede to this Demand By Odun Eniayekan Leicester Branch, Socialist Party (CWI England &
ERC calls for the Constitution of Action Committee for an Effective Planning and Coordination of a Fight back The attention of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), University of Ibadan branch has been drawn to different outrageous figures of school fees recently displayed on the portal of the university’s new intakes for the 2023/24 academic session. The new fees, as seen
WE HOLD GOVERNMENT AND THE UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS DEATH STUDENTS AND WORKERS MUST ORGANIZE AGAINST ALL ANTI-MASSES POLICIES! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) mourns the tragic death of two students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) during a stampede where the state government was distributing grains to students as palliatives. Aside these two students, at least 22 others
ERC CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE STRIKING WORKERS TO PREVENT DISRUPTION OF THE ACADEMIC CALENDAR WE WARN THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST INTIMIDATING STRIKING WORKERS LIKE THEY DID WITH THE ‘NO WORK, NO PAY’ POLICY IN 2022 FOR PROPER FUNDING OF THE EDUCATION SECTOR! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls on the Federal Government to immediate meet
ERC Holds Public Symposium. Participants Agree Student Loan is No Solution. Demand Adequate Funding of Public Education. By Davy Fidel On Saturday March 9, 2024, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) held a public symposium over the attack on public education including the wave of fee hike and the student loan policy. The ERC has helped expose the students loan scheme
ERC CALLS ON PRESIDENT TINUBU TO STOP THE NATIONAL DECEIT AND FOCUS ON USING NIGERIA’S RESOURCES TO ADEQUATELY FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION WE DEMAND THAT ALL FEES IN PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS INCREASED IN ANTICIPATION OF THE NOW POSTPONED STUDENTS LOAN SCAM BE REVERSED IMMEDIATELY As Nigerian students receive the news of another postponement of the student loan policy this time indefinitely,