For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
NATIONAL EDUCATION SUMMIT ASUU, NASU, NAAT AND SSANU DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NIGERIA’s PUBLIC EDUCATION SECTOR. By Ogundele Michael ERC National Secretary A cross section of participants at the ASUU Education Summit 2014 Between Monday October, 27th and Friday, 31st October, 2014 workers’ unions in Nigeria’s Public Universities, which comprise the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff
ERC OAU Public Symposium Highlights Growing Consciousness among Students DSM and ERC tabling at ERC OAU symposium A well-attended public symposium was held by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Branch on Friday, 7th November 2014 to discuss issues ranging from anti-student attacks to the moribund state of the students’ movement. The speakers – Prof. Josiah Ajiboye
TASCE WORKERS HOLD A 3-DAY WARNING STRIKE OGUN STATE GOVERNMENT MUST MEET THEIR DEMANDS NOW! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Ogun state chapter expresses our solidarity with the workers of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE), Omu Ijebu Ogun state, who went on a 3-day warning strike on October 14 to protest over the state government refusal to pay 48
Struggle for Free Education and Socialism DSM Student Wing Meets to Discuss How to Step up Campaign against Education Attacks Onwunalu Alexander (ERC University of Port Harcourt) HT Soweto, ERC National Coordinator speaking at the DSM Student Wing meeting , photo by DSM On Friday October 10, 2014, about 40 student activists and socialists gathered in a room in Lagos
Student Movement: Potential for Struggle Impeded by a Crisis of Leadership Resolution on Students Work DSM National Committee Meeting October 11-12, 2014 Cross section of comrades and supporters at DSM NC October 2014 The student movement in Nigeria is wracked by a huge crisis of leadership. This crisis is not just of its principal platform – the National Association of
Osun’s WAEC fiasco Woeful WAEC Results for State’s Students shows failure of Aregbesola Government’s Education Policies Again, the positions of we in the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) on the bankruptcy of the so-called education reform of the Rauf Aregbesola/APC government in Osun State have been borne out with the latest results from the West African Examination Council (WAEC) SSCE.
FG ignores education deadline Government Fails to Meet the Demands of ASUP and COEASU 3 Months after Suspension of Strike ERC Calls on FG to Avert another Prolonged Closure of Public Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Today, Wednesday 15 October 2014, marks the expiration of the 3-months grace the unions in the Polytechnic and Colleges of Education subsector gave to
MOCPED: A Basket of Crisis Students Groan under Inadequate Facilities and Outrageous Fees Graduates of Degree Program Lament Non-Release of Result/Certificate Four Years after Graduation By ERC Reporters Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), formerly known as Lagos State College of Primary Education (LACOPED) located in Epe, is a teacher training college established in 1994. Today the College is
OOU: AMOSUN SHOULD MEET THE DEMANDS OF STUDENTS AND REOPEN THE UNIVERSITY NOW! FOR ADEQUATE FUNDING OF EDUCATION IN OGUN STATE We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Ogun State strongly condemn the onslaught of the Ibikunle Amosun government on education in the state. In a sheer demonstration of an attack on democratic rights, the state government has shut
ERC CONDEMNS VICTIMISATION OF STUDENT ACTIVISTS AT THE OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the latest wave of victimization of student activists and leaders at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, by the Prof. Tale Omole-led university management and calls for the immediate and unconditional recall of 8 suspended student activists. On 18th August, 2014, the management
ERC CONDEMNS CLOSURE OF OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY (OOU) Governor Amosun’s Action is a Mockery of Democracy The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the forced closure of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun, by the Ibikunle Amosun state government. We are equally opposed to the militarisation of the campus by the state government which was meant to demobilise the mass of students
CRISIS OF FEE HIKE IN OGUN STATE-OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS Demand of OOU Students for Further Reduction of Hiked Fees Must be Met Immediately and Unconditionally Only a Solution that is Acceptable by Students of All the Affected Institutions in Ogun State Can Guarantee Academic Peace The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls on the Governor Amosun-led Ogun State government to immediately
UNILAG STUDENTS’ UNION: Inauguration of Constitution Drafting Committee and the Struggle for the Reinstatement of the Union By Femi Adebajo and Joshua Olamide, ERC UNILAG After several years of agitation for the restoration of the Students’ Union at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the management of the institution has now decided to inaugurate a constitution drafting committee to draft “a
ERC 2014 EDITION OF FREE HOLIDAY COACHING HAS BEGUN IN AJGEUNLE. A decade of uninterrupted exercise for poor children from working class background By Moshood Oshunfurewa and Benjamin Osigwe A teaching session at the ERC holiday coaching, photo by DSM The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Ajegunle, Lagos, branch has kick-started this year’s annual free holiday coaching for students of secondary
REVERSAL OF LASU FEES: WE ARE VINDICATED! Vigilance is Now Required From LASU Students and Workers To Ensure That This Victory is Permanent The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) wholeheartedly welcomes the reversal of the astronomically hiked fees of the Lagos State University (LASU) by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, the Governor of Lagos State. The Governor made this known at the
OAU AUTHORITIES SET UP VINDICTIVE INVESTIGATIVE PANEL TO VICTIMISE STUDENT ACTIVISTS WHO OPPOSE FEE HIKE Urgent Call for Protest Letters and Support Report by DSM and ERC members at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). The Prof. Tale Omole-led management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has set up two different ‘investigative’ panels to quiz student activists. These panels are coming at
UI STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTIONS: DSM COMRADE POLLS 2458 VOTES ON THE BASIS OF RADICAL PROGRMME FOR AN INDEPENDENT STUDENTS UNIONISM. It is indeed a political victory for members, sympathizers and political collaborators of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) going by the result of the just concluded student union election held at the University of Ibadan on the 12th July 2014. The
Victory at Last for Ex-UNILORIN Student Activist after 15 years ERC Welcomes the Supreme Court Judgment The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered by Justice Mary Odili which on July 11, 2014 ordered the management of University of Ilorin to forthwith release the final statement of results of Comrade Lanre Akinola and
ERC OPEN LETTER TO NANS ZONE-D LEADERSHIP ON WAVE OF FEE-HIKES AND NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ï¶ FOR A DAY LECTURE BOYCOTT AND MASS PROTEST! The current wave of fee hikes in the country, rapidly spreading in the South West especially, has further worsened the general conditions of Nigerian students. Various administrations of tertiary institutions, in connivance with various anti-poor
DSM, UI BRANCH PRESENTS CANDIDATE TO CONTEST POSITION OF PRESIDENT OF STUDENTS’ UNION Agenda for a mass-based, Virile and Independent Students’ union! Olawuni Mustapha, DSM UI Branch candidate for Students’ Union President, photo by DSM There is every indication that University of Ibadan (UI) Students’ Union elections will be held on 12th of July, 2014. This will be the fourth