LIFEINSLUM

At the very hour of 10:35am on Monday 26 March,  2018. Thousands of Okada riders from Motorcycles Operators Association (MOAS),  All Commercial Owners Motorcycle Riders Association of Nigeria (ACOMORAN) and All National Commercial Operators Owners and Workers Association (ANACOWA) who are affiliate Unions to National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) protested against the ongoing Toll Tickets the local government imposed on them to pay. 

By Davy Fidel, Freelancer E very 22 March of each year is a ritual day the world usually celebrates International World Water Day (IWWD). It is a day set aside for different liberal organizations and government agencies who will sit in a round table to hold seminars and emergency programmes to deliberate on the challenges around the shortages of water, and possibly a solution for a population in the world that is now  more than seven billion people.

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.

Child Labour is not a new phenomena. It is something that had been trending for years before this period. But what troubles people is the tendency at which these things emanate and how is spreading in different continents of the world: Africa, America, Asia, Europe etc.  It was Saturday 16 January, 2018 when I went to visit a friend nearby where I reside. Between the hour of 7am to 9am.

Monday 21 January,  2017; about Hundred and Fifty Three Non-Academic Staff Union workers (NASU) University of Lagos gathered at exactly 7:00am beside the Senate Building UNILAG to hold a protest meeting where the press: Silverbird Television was invited. The demands of the workers were that the Unilag management must pay them their unpaid salaries, stop intimidating and bedevilling them, provision of better working condition, respect the democratic rights of them to unionize. NASU insisted that they won't go back to work until the school authority meet their demands.

At Awodi-Ora community Thursday 15 February, 2018 exactly 7: 25pm. Members of the Socialist Party of Nigeria and the Democratic Socialist Movement  respectively organize community tabling to sensitized residents, workers, youths etc to circulate the JOIN US SPN leaflet, calling on people to join the party.  People who collected the leaflets especially women were distaste with the ongoing economic hardship. For some of them they said something must be done to curb this deepening crisis, where poverty has triple compare to the previous years. On their part, they poured out angry tune about the Buhari so-called regime that hasn't done nothing to make life better for the people. 

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.