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ERC CONDEMNS CLOSURE OF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY (OAU) RE-OPEN THE UNIVERSITY NOW We Support Students’ Demand for Reversal of Hiked Fees The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife for closing the University after students in their large numbers peacefully protested against the recent astronomical increment of fees for both new and returning
LASU: Struggle Forces Government to Reduce Hiked fees by 34% To 60% Government’s Offer is Less Than Satisfactory But Consistent and Uncompromising Struggle Can Win More On Wednesday June 11, 2014, the Babatunde Raji Fashola-led Lagos State government announced an offer to reduce the hiked fees at the Lagos State University (LASU) by a range of 34% to 60%. This
GOVERNMENT MUST MEET THE DEMANDS OF LASU STUDENTS ON FEE REDUCTION! For united action and solidarity protests involving staff unions and students union The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) expresses its unflinching solidarity with the ongoing mass occupation undertaken by the Students’ Union of Lagos State University at the Governor’s office. We call on the All Progressive Party (APC) controlled Lagos
ERC condemns arrest and arraignment of LASU students Continue protests until the fees are reversed The Education Rights Campaign condemns the arrest and arraignment of eight students of Lagos State University (LASU) following the protest led by the Students Union on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 along Oshodi end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway. We also welcome the steadfastness of the students in
ERC condemns Police Repression of Protesting LASU Students Reverse the Fees Now! The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns the assault on protesting students of Lagos State University (LASU) by the police in Lagos on Tuesday June 3, 2014 on the order of the Lagos State Government. The students in their hundreds led by the Students’ Union executive continued their peaceful
Strike in Osun tertiary Institutions: Aregbesola Govt. should Accede to Demands of Striking Workers We condemn the strong-arm tactics of the government We call of striking workers and students to organize united protests The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Osun State Chapter, condemns the indifferent attitude of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-led Osun State government to the ongoing strike of the teaching
OAU Students protest against obnoxious fee hike By Sogo Oladele DSM OAU Branch OAU Students Protest March to Ife town, photo by DSM Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, numbering over 5, 000, trooped out on 20 May 2014 to protest the astronomical increment of fresh students’ fee from N17,000 to about N80,000, (excluding the acceptance fee of
PLAN TO HIKE FEES IN OAU: ERC Says NO Education Rights Campaign press statement Over the past few days, the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife has been agog with agitations and protests by students over plans by the Management to hike fees in the University. According to the details of the plan, the hike will affect mainly fresh students
Reject Planned Fee Increase in OAU Student Union Should Call an Immediate Congress Mass Actions Including Protests, Rallies, Media Campaign Should be Organized ASUU, SSANU, NASU, NAAT and Alumni Association Should Reject the Fees The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) hereby totally rejects the planned fee increment by management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. We call on Nigerian students, especially
ASUU NDC 2014 ERC Salutes ASUU for Championing the Struggle to Save the Public University System from Collapse The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) warmly welcomes the leadership and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to this year’s edition of the biennial National Delegate Conference of the union. No doubt ASUU has demonstrated how the rest of the
ASUP, COEASU AND ERC PROTEST REPRESSED BY POLICE More Actions Needed To Win the Struggle Dimeji Macaulay Hassan Taiwo Soweto, ERC National Coordinator, addressing ASUP, COEASU and ERC protest rally, photo DSM Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) and the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) with hundreds of students led
Education Rights Campaign Press Statement ERC CONDEMNS POLICE ATTACK ON ASUP AND COEASU PROTEST MARCH IN ABUJA Nigerians Must Rise to Resist President Jonathan’s Nascent Dictatorship Protests Must Continue Until the Demands of ASUP and COEASU are Met On Tuesday 29 April 2014, members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Education
DSM STUDENT/YOUTH WING MEET TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES TO FIGHT EDUCATION ATTACKS DSM Reporters A cross section of student comrades at April’s Democratic Socialist Movement National Committee meeting As the opening event of this April’s Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) National Committee (NC) meeting, the DSM’s student/youth wing met on Friday 11 April, 2014 to discuss the strategies to adopt in fighting
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Student Union Elections: Authorities Interference Generates Crisis A Call for Petitions The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) calls on the authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife to respect the democratic rights of students to determine who lead them in the union elections. The attempt of the university management to prevent five (5) students, including Oluwole Engels
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MOVEMENT (DSM), OAU Branch Press Statement: OAU STUDENTS’ UNION ELECTION: MANAGEMENT MUST STOP INTERFERENCE STOP DISQUALIFICATION OF RADICAL STUDENTS FOR INDEPENDENT STUDENTS’ UNIONISM Following a protracted and spirited struggle by students of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, the Professor Tale Omole-led administration was recently forced to lift ban on the Students’ Union activities which had been illegally proscribed for
DEATH OF UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS AT NIGERIA IMMIGRATION SERVICE APTITUDE TESTS: GOVT. IS CULPABLE ERC Demands Sack of Minister of Interior and NIS Comptroller General Calls for a Day of Mourning and Mass Protests The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) is outraged at the avoidable wastage of the lives of scores of unemployed Nigerian youths during the Nigeria Immigration Service’s recruitment test
ERC NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: ASUU President Nasir Fagge, photo by DSM Education Workers, Students and Socialists Agree that a United Action is needed to save Public Education from a Total Collapse. By Ogundepo Titus On Thursday, 27th February, 2014, no fewer than one hundred (100) people including students, education workers and journalists gathered at a public symposium organized by the Education
#SaveLASU Campaign Holds First Protest Turnout Was Small But Very Combative DSM Reporters LASU students and JAF members on the protest march, photo by DSM Over the past three weeks, the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), which is a platform formed by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) to campaign for proper funding of education and democratic management, has been playing role
Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Press Statement ON LASU RESUMPTION: OUR STAND! The Protest March to Lagos House of Assembly will Continue (1) We have received the news of the announcement of resumption of the Lagos State University (LASU). Ordinarily the announcement of resumption this month after the unfortunate closure of January 23 is a news that should be received with
LASU: Successful Press Conference Marks another Step forward for the #SaveLASU Campaign Protest Declared for Tuesday 18 February 2014 Ayo Ademiluyi HT Soweto, ERC National Coordinator reading the # SaveLasu Campaign statement at the press conference, photo by DSM On Wednesday 12 February 2014, the Education Rights’ Campaign (ERC), in collaboration with the Lagos State University Students Union, addressed a