For Struggle, Solidarity and Socialism in Nigeria
EPILEPTIC POWER SUPPLY DESPITE PRIVATISATION: Nationalization of the Power Sector is the Only Solution to Darkness By Fidel Davinovich Since the privatization of the power sector, epileptic power supply is still widespread. The power sector was sold at a rock bottom price of about N500 billion, an industry that is worth more than $3 trillion. This is a massive rip-off
FUEL SCARCITY: Fixing the Oil Sector is not Rocket Science! For immediate repair of old refineries, building of new ones and nationalization of oil and gas industry By H.T. Soweto Every now and then, Nigeria finds itself in the throes of fuel scarcity. The latest crisis which started December last year persisted for several months with motorists buying the products
LAGOS: Is Ambode Truly Transforming Lagos? By Lexan Ali The 3 years of the Akinwumi Ambode’s administration in Lagos can best be described as anything but transformative. This is because all of the steps taken, programmes being put in place and policies implemented by the led APC government in its purported quest to transform Lagos State, no matter how laudable
NIGERIA’S ECONOMY: Is The Worst behind Us Yet? By Peluola Adewale It was a chest-thumping President Muhammadu Buhari at the February 27 NEC meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) boasting that his government has “slowly and steadily managed to stabilize the country and redirect the ship of the state”. To justify this claim, he gleefully listed what he considered
SPN IS NOW REGISTERED: Hope Of A Better Nation Beacons By Adaramoye Michael Lenin Many Nigerians have come to the inevitable realization that the pro-capitalist parties have nothing to offer the present and future other than doom. These were the same persons deceived few years ago into supporting the APC change mantra. If there is any lesson that can be
MINIMUM WAGE: Only Mass Struggle Can Win N56,000 Minimum Wage and its implementation By Chinedu Bosah The present N18, 000 minimum wage is nothing compared to the present economic reality. More so when the wage structure is statutorily long overdue for review considering the fact that the present N18, 000 minimum wage that came into being in 2011 with an
Socialist Democracy April-May 2018 Edition 2019 GENERAL ELECTION Post-Election Anti-poor Attacks Inevitable Whichever of the Pro-rich Parties Win Join in building SPN By Abbey Trotsky The build up to the 2019 elections has begun with furious infighting amongst the ruling elite. Rivals are fighting and manoeuvring to gain personal advantage and to try to contain the growing popular disappointment with
Arrest and Remand of Five OAU Students: We call for Immediate Release of the Students We call for end to culture of victimization and repression by OAU authorities We call for the immediate recall of three (3) student activists and restoration of students’ union The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Osun State Chapter, strongly condemns the arrest, arraignment
National Industrial Court Rules in favour of Dangote Cement Workers CDWR Calls on Dangote Cement Plc to immediately meet workers’ Demands. Joyous Dangote Truck Officers with their lawyer Toluwani Adebiyi after the hearing – photo DSM (Click to enlarge) By Chinedu Bosah Publicity Secretary, CDWR The truck officers who have been callously and fraudulently sacked by the management of Dangote
FIVE OAU STUDENT ACTIVISTS REMANDED IN PRISON CUSTODY FOR PROTESTING FORCEFUL EVICTION OF STUDENTS FROM HOSTELS As authorities step up repression, escalate the solidarity Call for Protest Letters and Messages Repression at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun state, has taken a new turn with the arrest of five (5) student activists and their remand in prison custody for protesting
Cameroon: a Marxist approach to the national crisis By Stéphane Delcros, Linkse Socialistische Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (LSP/PSL), CWI in Belgium Ten years ago the economic crisis broke loose. The lives of many young people and working people were turned upside down. In order to maintain the profits of the economic elite, a bolder neoliberal policy was adopted.
SPN DEMANDS AN END TO JUMBO SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES FOR ALL POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS PLACE POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS ON THE CIVIL SERVICE WAGE STRUCTURE! The revelation by Senator Shehu Sanni that each senator earns whopping N13.5 million monthly allowances aside from their N750, 000 monthly consolidated salary is not new. It confirms the correctness of the consistent campaign of the
REPEAL LAGOS STATE LAND USE CHARGE LAW 2018 REDUCTION IS A DECEIT Tax the Rich, Not the Poor The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) Lagos State Chapter condemns the new land use charge recently introduced by the Lagos state government and calls for the total repeal of this obnoxious law. We are not swayed by the purported reduction of the
2018 International Women’s Day in Nigeria H.T. Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) Just like previous years, International Women’s Day in Nigeria was celebrated by the trade unions with low-key activities. Compared with efforts that go into preparation for May Day, how the trade unions mark women’s day is one way to understand the status of working women in the
2018 International Women’s Day We Urgently Need a Mass Movement to fight Gender Discrimination, Rape, Sexism, Exploitation and Women’s Oppression We women in Nigeria live in utter privation. We still face oppression of various kinds both at home, work, schools and in society. All these cannot be disconnected from the capitalist system – a system that reinforces patriarchy and creates
SHOCKING ABDUCTION OF 110 GIRLS IN DAPCHI, YOBE STATE, BY SUSPECTED BOKO HARAM MILITANTS H.T Soweto On 20th February 2018, Nigerians woke up to a news they least expected: the abduction the night before of 110 female students of Government Science and Technical Girls College, Dapchi, Yobe State. A few days before, the Military had yet again announced that Boko
HERDSMEN VERSUS FARMERS CRISES An independent class approach needed to find genuine solution to the recurring decimal of violence H.T Soweto Brutal killings arising from farmer-herder clashes have left a trail of bodies, destruction and anxiety across communities in the North Central and North West zones of the country. On New Year Day, 73 people, including women and children, in
SPN Rejects Imposition of Yoruba Language for Lagos tertiary institution admission Public funded free and quality education for all devoid of discrimination should be the priority The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns a new law recently signed by the Lagos state governor Akinwumi Ambode that makes passing Yoruba language at Secondary School Leaving Examinations a requirement for admission into
Zuma ousted as President of South Africa Does Ramaphosa offer any hope for the working class? by Weizmann Hamilton, Workers and Socialist Party Executive Committee (WASP, CWI in South Africa) Inside two months following his election as ANC president at the party’s December 2017 national conference, Cyril Ramaphosa has realised the ambition he reportedly set himself whilst still at high
2019 General Elections and the Working Masses Place no faith in Obasanjo or any member of the capitalist ruling elite H.T Soweto The public rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term bid by former President Olusegun Obasanjo through a public statement is clearly an indication that a new crack has opened within the already divided capitalist ruling class. He accused