LIFEINSLUM

Just as Ijora Badia, Aiyetoro etc are boiling. Women from Ojo road, Atebo, Ibitoye etc in Ifelodun LCDA,  followed suit under the platform of OJO ROAD WOMEN UNITE to preoccupied the street of Lagos today (22/6/2018) in their hundreds to say Enough is Enough to the Eko Distribution Company (EKEDC). 

The Coalition for Affordable and Regular Electricity (CARE) and the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) calls on workers, market men and women, students, trade unionists, artisans, activists, well meaning organizations, communities who have been resisting crazy bill to unite in common interests and begin to demand the renationalization of the power sector because privatization has failed woefully. CARE and SPN are oppose to the privatization of the power sector, responsible to the shameful collapse of industries that is now museum or tourist centres due to the policies of feeding the fat cats.

It is like steam engine drilling the earth when hundred of residents Friday 9 February, 2018 in the OccupyLekkiTollGate came out in their numbers to demonstrate the dissatisfaction over the 66.6% hike imposed on them by the Lagos State Ambode government. Residents who came out are mostly youth, workers and women that were highly distaste about the regime, making life harder for the working people. Before the kick off rally to the toll gate. A lot of armed police officers ready to gun down a flea were even more than the protesters have already stationed in the various spot at Lekki as barricade to stop the protest. The Area Commander of Eti-Osa Local Government has given directive that the peaceful demonstration should not be allowed to move into the major road.

Presently, “occultism”, which is one of the means used by University management to victimize political organizations, groups, activist, social critic and students who are strong in its demands for government to fund public education, or generally speak on issues affecting the students in school; now encroached itself like disease into communities. However, this doesn’t automatically mean that attending University education is obsolete likewise the ghetto is a virgin. The point to be establish here is that things are losing it grasp in the society and government have totally fail in attending to it because of policies that doesn’t really address the core issues that affect the neighbourhood directly. And because of this total collapse in social amenities, a lot of young boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 25 indecisively have to recruit each other in order to belong to any these groups so to protect themselves against any harsh opposition, that possibly, if erupt into g...

With a population that is more than 180 million Nigeria is projected to hit a possible figure of 450 million people by 2050 becoming the third largest population after India and China. The fear of people still living under the canon of poverty will virtually increase.It will grow worse than ever before as people shall find it extremely difficult to eat because of the level of economic hardship unresolved by the pro-rich government. While this should attract a serious attention,politicians in government are unable to implement social economic policies to arrest the rise of hunger, creating anger and frustration as the case will be. Many poor homes as presently constituted would hardly see food to eat.. As it is currently ongoing in Nigeria, where a lot of people can’t afford to eat nutritious meal per day; in a country where cost of living has tripled in the last 20 years. Despite the claim by Nigeria Bureau of Statistic (NBS)stating that the inflation rate dropped from 16....

Joblessness is not what millions of people want or wish for when they are capable of offering their ability to ensure the economy develops such that government can  provide daily need for all without turning back for the poor to beg for meal like ‘Oliver Twice’ in Britain. People wish good things in life. People want to see life working for them in whichever way they can afford as far it is going to improve their standard of living. But the fact that opens the vamp of social contradiction is that, people on daily basis can’t access themselves to these things. They crawl to even have the nothing left in the mold by the government policies. The everyday people want to believe life isn’t green card they should perish like flea or be hospitalising for, before getting life of comfort whenever the need arises. This has been the thinking of every average poor person who thinks

Thursday 13 October, 2016 members of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Ajegunle branch under the aegis of Ajegunle People and Communities (AP & C) attended a Leadership meeting called by the