The Crisis of Underfunding, Lack of Democratic Control and Corruption Must First be Addressed! Police Must Enjoy Democratic Right to Join Union and Control Their Welfare Funds By Abbey Trotsky President Bola Tinubu has transmitted to the National Assembly a Bill seeking to establish State Police across Nigeria. Predictably, the proposal has generated widespread national debate. Nigerians who support the initiative
We Still Cry for Justice By Sodiq Duro-Orike Five years ago, on the evening of Wednesday, 18 August 2021, Comrade Yusuf Nurudeen Alowonle affectionately known across the campuses of Lagos and beyond as “Omomeewa” was brutally shot and killed by yet to be identified assailants at the gate of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo. He had come to campus
Students Must Organise and Fight Against Cultism and Anti-Student Policies of the University Management The Students’ Union of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife organized a public symposium to commemorate the gruesome murder of five students of the university on July 10, 1999. The symposium was attended by several students and had past union leaders as speakers and panelists. The
Governor Sanwo-Olu and LASU Authorities Must Immediately Reinstatement Dismissed ASUU Activists Between 2017 and 2019, five members of the executive council of the Lagos State University (LASU) Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) were unjustly dismissed over various trumped-up and frivolous allegations. However, their real offence was insisting the university under the former Vice Chancellor Prof Lanre
SPN Olambe Holds Memorial for Mr Gbolahan On June 6, 2026, members of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Olambe Ifo Ogun State held a political memorial to mark the first anniversary of the passing of Gbolahan Festus Togunbo, the branch chairman. Mr. Gbolahan, as he was fondly called, passed away on May 14, 2025 at the age of 51
In continuation of their act of using the state apparatus of coercion to intimidate a victim of their administrative authoritarianism into silence, the management of Ezzy International College of Nursing Science, a private school in Enugu State, has served Mrs. Ifeoma Nwaogaranya, a former nursing student of the institution, with a court summon. Her offence was publicly speaking out against
Four Communities (Ikangba, Agoro, Imodi and Imosan) In Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State Hold Protest Against Land Grabbing CDWR supports protest and calls on the Gov. Dapo Abiodun-led government and the security agencies to act swiftly and decisively to curb activities of land grabbers across communities in Ogun state Following a prolonged suffering unleashed by the unhindered, nefarious