Day: June 24, 2015

DEEPENING CRISIS IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT: Need To Rebuild the Movement as a Fighting and United Platform for the Working Masses By Chinedu Bosah The rival May Day rallies this year were an illustration that, for the first time in decades, the trade union movement is formally split. Many workers wanting a united Labour response to the country’s deepening

Worsening Electricity Supply Sparks Protest In Many Communities By Chinedu Bosah The worsening of electricity supply and monumental exploitation of consumers since the privatization of the power sector has triggered protests in many communities in the last 4 months across the country especially in Lagos. In May the electricity generation went down to an all-time low of 1300MW for a

ELECTRICITY PRIVATISATION HAS FAILED For Return of Power Sector to Public Ownership under Democratic Control By Peluola Adewale On October 25, 2010, electricity workers and activists under the auspices of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) and Joint Action Front (JAF) embarked on protest march from Yaba to Marina in Lagos to mobilise mass opposition to the then planned

A RADICAL PROGRAMME TO TACKLE THE CRISIS IN THE OIL SECTOR The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) urgently proposes the following steps as emergency measures to tackle the crisis in the oil sector, restore products availability, reverse pump price to official price, clean up the oil industry and take the oil wealth from oil cartels and crooks and return it to

PERENNIAL FUEL SHORTAGES: Need for Public Ownership of Oil Industry By H.T. Soweto For weeks in April and May 2015, a drought of fuel has hit Nigeria, ironically Africa’s top economy and largest crude oil producer. Queues have returned to petrol stations. Transport costs are rising. Where fuel is available, it goes for as much as N150 per litre and

BOKO HARAM: Can Moving Military Command Center to Maiduguri End the Insurgency? By H.T. Soweto At his inauguration on May 29, President Buhari declared to an expectant Nation that he would move the military command to Maiduguri and it shall remain there until Boko Haram is “completely subdued”. This is because “victory cannot be achieved by basing the command and