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State Level Strikes, December 2024 – Why Did We Not Win More?

Strikes were organised in five states and the FCT at the end of November and early December last year. Some definite gains were achieved.  The minimum wage is now generally being implemented much earlier than was the case with the ₦30,000 minimum wage. In several cases, the consequential adjustments are better than for the previous increase. But...

State Strikes, December 2024 – Why Did We Not Win More?

Introduction Strikes were organised in five states and the FCT at the end of November and early December 2024 and some definite gains were achieved.  The minimum wage is now generally being implemented much earlier than was the case with the ₦30,000 minimum wage in 2019. In several cases, the consequential adjustments are better...

“Class, Corruption and the Nigerian Criminal Justice System”

Saturday 25TH JANUARYZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81087529655

How West Africa’s Military Juntas Exploit Anti-French Sentiments For Support But Undermine Human Rights; By Alex Batubo

THE KEY problems for the common people in most countries across West Africa are the same as in Nigeria, poverty, inequality and corruption. Across the Sahel, especially in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger this had led to armed insecurity led by Islamic militants. It was the failure to quell such violence that led to the military coups...

Hope is in our Collective Resistance – only Robust Strike Actions Can Ensure a Change of Government Policy

The NLC in its end of year message, demanded the withdrawal of the tax reform bills and a minimum wage review - but it is only robust strike actions by trade unions that will stop the governments' attacks on workers. The NLC said in the statement from its President, Joe Ajaero: “We insist...

Overview of the African ruling class

February, 2018      Jean NangaOriginally published in French by CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts): https://www.cadtm.org/Apercu-sur-l-actuelle-classe Summary This paper discusses the evolving nature of the ruling class in Africa, focusing on its historical, economic, and social dynamics. Economic Transformation and Capitalism:

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): A Thirty Year War

Paul Martial    October, 2024 The latest report from the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports a very sharp increase in sexual violence in Kivu, the eastern region of the DRC. More than 25,000 women have been treated, not counting those who prefer to remain silent. A figure that speaks volumes about the ordeal suffered...

Dangote Petroleum Refinery And Oligopolistic PMS Prices

Izielen Agbon Oligopolies are a few companies that control product supply in a market. Oligopolies create artificial barriers to competition in a market and sell commodities at higher oligopolistic prices to maximize profit. This seems to be the case with Dangote Petroleum Refinery as the major supplier of PMS in the Nigerian...

Global Heating is Devastating the World

The most recent international climate change conference has come and gone. Greenhouse emissions are still increasing and global temperatures this year are already 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels – the target of the 2015 Paris conference. The recent devastating floods across the Sahel and Nigeria are a direct illustration of climate change. They affected more than three...