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Wallace-Johnson: a Voice for the Oppressed, a Legacy for the Present
By Kwadwo Agyei Yeboah (Interim General Secretary, African Continental Unity Party-ACUP)
In Africa’s long and unpleasant history of liberation struggle and rebuilding of the continent, few figures embody the spirit of radical resistance and boundless solidarity with intensity as powerful as Isaac Theophilus Akunna Wallace-Johnson. The Comrade was born in 1894 in Sierra Leone,...
STRIKES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A Catalyst for Crime and Societal Instability?
by Opaluwa Eleojo Simeon,
Introduction
The educational sector—comprising universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education—has been plagued by underfunding and the failure by governments to implement their agreements with the trade unions. As a result, strikes have been common over the past 15 years. These stoppages disrupt academic progress and socio-economic stability....
Real Economic Growth in Nigeria Since 2000
Tina Ndi
In the fifteen years to 2015, the Nigerian economy grew rapidly and became many times larger. Since then economic growth has continued at a more modest rate. Despite this huge economic growth, the living standards of most people have fallen since 2000, especially over the last couple of years.
How Can the FCT Area Council Workers Strike Win?
Workers of Abuja area councils have been on an indefinite strike since late March over implementation of the minimum wage. This strike is an important test case. Around 20 states have also yet to implement the minimum wage. If the trade unions cannot win in Abuja, then it will be more difficult in many states. Complete victory...
The Misery of a People Without Hope
By Abadom Lawrence Amechi
Hope is the sustenance that bridges the gaps between life's routine nourishments. Even when circumstances force us to skip meals, hope becomes the substitute that keeps us going. It is the elixir of life, the vital energy that fuels our existence and lubricates the engine of our being. Without hope,...
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF FUOYE IN DISPENSING TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
The Council of the Federal University of Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) has shown clearly their bias over the allegations of sexual harassment against the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Abayomi Fasina. It has exercised injustice in its judgment against the victim of this oppression, Engineer Folasade Adebayo, a senior staff and Director of the Works Department in...
Insecurity? – How should socialists start to think about this problem?
Alex Batubo
Any form of ethnic or national chauvinism needs to be avoided at all costs as it divides and weakens the working class. So we should not even suggest that any ethnic group, foreigners or aliens are any part of the ‘problem’. One of the most dangerous possibilities is the descent into inter-ethnic...
What Can Socialists Do About the Global Rise of the Far Right?
Tina Nkechi
The global far right has been growing over the last three decades. This now includes Donald Trump in the US, Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India since 2014), former president Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, president Javier Milei of Argentina (elected in 2023) Recep Erdoğan of Turkey (President since 2014) and various European...
Trump tariffs and the crisis of global capitalism
Alex Batubo
Trumps act of increasing tariffs for American imports was a huge shock to global capitalism. It also reminds us how powerful the US is – but could be declining. Forty years of free trade and work of the World Trade Organisation was over-turned.
But even then, the US Government...
ABOLITION OF ALL FORMS OF POVERTY IN NIGERIA: WHOSE TASK?
By
Femi Aborisade
Introduction
The topic of discussion has made my task simple because it is, I guess, deliberately, judgmental. It is judgmental because it has concluded, and I absolutely agree, that we live in a world of pervasive and multi-dimensional poverty. We do not therefore...