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Aging Tyrants and Africa’s Future: Biya and Ouattara – the Failure of Reform
By Baba Lawan
Protests over elections in Douala, Cameroon
What does it say about democracy when people continue to re-elect men who have long outlived his political prime? The recent claimed electoral victories of Paul Biya, Cameroon’s 92-year-old president, and Alassane Ouattara, the 83-year-old president of...
Lessons from the Uprising in Madagascar
The successful uprising in Madagascar to remove the national president should give confidence and inspiration to all socialists. This is just one example of the multiple popular uprisings that are taking place across the world. The symbol adopted by the protesters in Madagascar is the pirate flag, taken from a Japanese comic strip and used in Indonesia...
SOCIALIST LABOUR SUPPORTS ASUU WARNING STRIKE! Our Universities Are Dying, ASUU Is Fighting to Revive Them.
Socialist Labour supports the ASUU’s warning strike for the revival of Nigerian Universities. There are 300 universities in Nigeria with 74 Federal universities, 67 State universities and 156 private Universities. The public universities (74 Federal and 67 State) universities have 2.079 million
(94.5%) of the 2.2 million university students in Nigeria. The 156 private...
Adieu Aremson, Professor of Struggle
By Femi Aborisade
Professor of Struggle is the name with which I saved the name of Aremson in my telephone contacts' list. It is my belief that if titles were awarded for the degree of individual immersion into mass actions and emancipatory struggles of the working masses, our Aremson is eminently qualified to be...
HOW PROSCRIPTION OF TRADE UNIONS WAS FOUGHT UNDER MILITARY AND CIVILIAN REGIMES IN NIGERIA
BY
FEMI FALANA SAN
A fortnight ago, a group asked me to recuse myself from defending the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (NUPENG). Others called me names for pointing out that the Trade Union Act has imposed a duty on employers to accord recognition to all...
We Need Robust United Trade Union Action to Win Our Education & Health Rights
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We Need Robust United Trade Union Action to Win Our Education & Health Rights
The Nigerian Constitution is clear and explicit, the government is to “provide free compulsory and universal primary education”, continued with free university education. The government is also to provide “adequate medical and health facilities for all persons”. But we all know that these rights will only be won with robust and united action by all the trade...
Nigeria at 65: For Whom Is the Celebration?
By Lawan Musa (Baba Lawan )
As Nigeria marks 65 years of formal independence, the question nobody asks—yet everyone feels—is: Who is this day for? For the political class, the oligarchs, the elites, Independence Day is a spectacle of pageantry, a stage for speeches and pomp. For the millions of ordinary Nigerians — the...
AUTOMATIC MEMBERSHIP OF TRADE UNIONS FOR WORKERS
(Being the paper presented by Femi Falana SAN at the National Webinar on Abuse of Market Dominance and Unfair Labour Practices held by FCCPC, in collaboration with Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos on Monday 15th Sept., 2025) .
INTRODUCTION
A few days ago, the National Union of Petroleum...
DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOB SECURITY IN THE PRECISION ELECTRICAL AND RELATED EQUIPMENT SECTOR OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY
By
Femi Aborisade
Introduction
I thank the leadership of PERESSA for inviting me as a Special Guest/Speaker at the Association’s 1st quadrennial and 9th national triennial delegates conference.
It is a rare privilege to have the opportunity for exchange of ideas that may...