For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
WORKERS PROTEST ANTI-LABOUR PRACTICES AT LINDA COMPANY By Chinedu Bosah Striking Linda workers at the main entrance of the company, photo by DSM On September 25, 2014, over 1,000 workers in Lagos went on strike which lasted for about two weeks at the Linda Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of ‘x-pression’ hair weave-on, over inhuman working conditions and anti-labour practices which led
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.
Free Abdulmalik Sa’idu and Fejiro Oliver Now Stop attacks on democratic rights The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) demands immediate end to the savage attacks on democratic rights of citizens Abdulmalik Saidu and Fejiro Oliver. The former is currently languishing in detention for posting comments on the Facebook which, purportedly, “insults” the person of Kastina State Governor, Ibrahim
SPN CONDEMNS THE DEATH SENTENCE ON 12 SOLDIERS FREE THE CONDEMNED SOLDIERS NOW! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the death sentence on 12 soldiers by the Brig. Gen. CC Okonkwo led nine-man General Court Martial. It is the height of crudity and insensitivity for the affected soldiers to be sentenced to death for protesting against a command that
SPN Challenges INEC’s Rejection of its Application in Court Solidarity Songs after SPN Conference 2014, photo by DSM The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) held a press conference yesterday, September 16, 2014, in Lagos at the International Press Centre (IPC) to make public the rejection of the party’s application for registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) despite fulfilling
BOKO HARAM’S “ISLAMIC CALIPHATE” AND CAPTURING OF TOWNS REVEAL FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT For a Working Peoples’ Political Alternative Now! By Ayo Ademiluyi In an apparent replication of the declaration of an “Islamic State” in some parts of Iraq and Syria by the terrorist ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and a-Shams) group, Boko Haram insurgents recently declared Gwoza, Borno State
ONE BILLION DOLLAR LAGOS STATE DEBT FASHOLA GOVERNMENT IS LEAVING A LEGACY OF WOES We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Lagos State Chapter, strongly decry the legacy of $1 billion debt burden that the outgoing Babatunde Fashola government is leaving behind for the mass of working people and the poor in the state. According to media reports, the
RAPE CASE REVEALS THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF HEALTH SECTOR IN OYO STATE For Adequate Funding of Health Care under Democratic Control The Oyo State Chapter of Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) describes as disturbing and ridiculous the recent media reports of how a medical doctor at the General Hospital in Eruwa could not carry out a verification test on a
EBOLA OUTBREAK: A CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Profit drive obstructs treatment and prevention At the end of August the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim began a co-authored article published in the Washington Post by writing that “If the Ebola epidemic devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone had instead struck Washington, New York or Boston, there is no
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
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
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
EBOLA OUTBREAK IN PORT HARCOURT A TRUE PICTURE OF HEALTH CRISIS WORSENED BY FAILURE OF CAPITALIST ELITE We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Rivers State Chapter, view the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus to Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital, as a true confirmation of the failure of the Jonathan regime in the fight against the epidemic
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
NLC NEC RESOLUTION: CLASS COLLABORATIONIST POLITICS WILL NOT RECLAIM THE LABOUR PARTY We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) welcome the resolution of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) held on August 16 in Enugu to “take control of Labour Party, and reposition it as a party with the ideals of labour and its
BAN ON PROTESTS IN BORNO WE CONDEMN ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS We of the Socialist Party of Nigeria condemn in the strongest terms the ban on public protests by the Borno State Police Command of the Nigerian Police. According to media reports, angry wives of soldiers in the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri on August 10 staged
EBOLA: CAPITALIST FAILURE COMPOUNDS THE PANDEMIC AND PUTS MILLIONS OF WORKING PEOPLE AT RISK Working masses across West Africa must fight for a socialist health solution. We of the Socialist Party join millions of working people across West Africa to commiserate with the families of victims of the Ebola pandemic that is currently ravaging countries across the sub-region. We reject
ASUU’s CALL FOR “A SOCIALIST WELFARE STATE” FOR A CONFERENCE OF TRADE UNIONISTS, SOCIALISTS AND ACTIVISTS NOW! The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) heartily applauds the declaration of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for the “adoption of a socialist welfare state as against the current capitalist system in Nigeria” (Leadership, Abuja – August 12, 2014). Against the background
Osun Governorship Election: Victory of a Lesser Evil Urgent need to build Mass Working People’s Party now! After several months of heavily monetized campaigns, inducement and rotten politicking, the Osun State governorship election held on August 9, 2014. The election held amidst heavy militarization with well over 65, 000 security forces, including the police, state security service, army etc., storming