On June 12, 2026, thousands of workers, students, teachers and ordinary citizens turned Democracy Day into a day of mass anger against insecurity, hunger and government neglect. Coordinated demonstrations under the #EndBadGovernance and Take-It-Back banners hit Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Akwa Ibom, Kano, Kaduna, Edo,...
Amina Usman
In the first 10 days of the US attack on Iran 20,000 non-military buildings were hit, among them almost 17,500 houses. On the first day, 150 girls were killed in a school in southern Iran that the American forces hit twice. This was...
The strategy of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) over the last decade or so has included extended negotiations, limited strike threats and generally calling off strikes at the last moment. The assumption appears to have been that we have decent governments that only occasionally need reminding to do the right thing. In fact we have corrupt governments that only work to further enrich themselves and their elite friends. They rarely, if ever, actually implement any agreements that they have signed with the trade unions.