Over One Decade of the ERC Free Holiday Coaching in Ajegunle By Fidel Davynovich, DSM, Ajegunle This year’ annual free summer coaching of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) came to an end on Wednesday 9 September, 2015. This was after six weeks of the exercise with about 450 secondary school students (in SS1, SS2 and SS3) and 30 volunteer teachers
NLC MUST END ANTI-LABOUR PRACTICES IN LCTS CDWR Demands Reinstatement of Sacked LCTS Worker By Bosah Chinedu The Labour City Transport Limited (LCTS) is a transport scheme supposedly to assist workers move from one point to another affordably. In the absence of a coordinated, integrated and adequately funded public transportation, any private initiative will fail to resolve the transportation difficulties
PUBLIC EDUCATION AT THE MERCY OF AUSTERITY POLICIES For United Actions Of Teachers, Students And Parents To Defend Public Education By Wole Olubanji National Mobilisation Officer, ERC The education sector is facing serious crisis today. Beyond the poor conditions of learning in schools; there is a whole new level of agitations and appeals that government should pay the salaries and
MIGRANT CRISIS: Another Shameful By-product of Capitalism Amidst debates and concerns about the growing migrant crisis, Lanre Arogundade hereby offers a working class socialist perspective and analysis of some key issues involved. By Lanre Arogundade WORST THAN WORLD WAR PERIOD The figures commonly bandied in the world’s leading elite media about the number of migrants or refugees seeking asylum or
Apathy as Cote d’ Ivoire Holds Presidential Election By Jules Konan, Ivorian Committee for a Workers’ International sympathizing group The mood in Côte d’Ivoire is a very unusual one at the moment as the presidential elections scheduled for October 25 approaches. It can only be characterized as a complete apathy towards the outcome, mixed with fear that the country might
HOUSING CRISIS FOR MILLIONS IN NIGERIA: Only a Working People’s Government With Socialist Policies Can Guarantee Massive Housing for the Working People and the Poor By Dimeji Macaulay Housing crisis is a huge issue for Nigerians. Millions live in homes that have been precariously built in terrible places that have life threatening environment in the “showcase” Federal Capital Territory, let
FOR A NEW NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE! By Segun Sango, National Chairman, SPN The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) urgently calls on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to now take seriously the need to fight for a new national minimum wage. We hold that apart from the fact that the current minimum wage, which was last
NO TO ELECTRICITY TARIFF HIKE By Aj Dagga Tolar With over N4 trillion of public fund spent on electricity in the past sixteen years, there is particularly no reason whatsoever why any part of the country should be in darkness, and yet the situation on ground is that many communities in the country are not even connected to the national
BAILOUT FOR STATES: Can They Really Bail Working People Out? By Kola Ibrahim When the federal government announced a bailout plan for embattled state governments, there was a kind of relief for workers and pensioners, who have been made the sacrificial lamb of the gross mismanagement of the funds that have accrued to these state governments. According to the Nigerian
Which Way Forward for the Workers’ Movement in Nigeria? By Ayo Ademiluyi Almost every day it is becoming clearer and clearer that the workers’ movement in Nigeria requires a radical revival as the movement is in a parlous state. At a time when a new economic crisis is developing, tens of thousands of workers are not being paid, tens of
Nigeria’s Economic Crisis Deepens By Peluola Adewale The Nigerian economy is not yet out of the woods. Though the official report from the third quarter has not been released, nothing suggests we have already seen the worst with the last quarter report. More than anything, it appears that high oil price, the major driver of the growth of the last
CHANGE: Through Reform or Revolution? By H.T. Soweto Five months (5) after its inauguration, the Buhari government which was swept into power in an historic election continues to enjoy perhaps the most widespread support any government has ever had. After 16 years of brutal assault on living standards and democratic rights and serial corruption by the former ruling People’s Democratic