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About two hundred dock workers stormed the premises of the National Industrial Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, for the first hearing of their case on Wednesday, 22 February, 2017 Read more...

picture from www.cityvoiceng.com In recent time, the numbers of youth restiveness between the ages of 15 to 23 in the past ten to fifteen months have being on the rise in various communities of Lagos State and Nigeria as whole. These youth engage themselves into petty social crime and even on the extreme as way out to resolve the immediate mountainous crisis left in the mouth of poor working class families..... View pictures

Hungary’s government retreated from a pledge to “sweep out” charities funded by billionaire George Soros, but it’s still planning to tighten rules on non-governmental Read more....

As Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara presides over Africa’s fastest-growing economy and leads a ruling coalition that’s just won a fresh majority in parliament, he still faces a key threat to national stability: the army. A two-day mutiny by soldiers demanding

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About ninety five dock workers from the five different sublet companies (Daisy Chain, Bluche, Biz Biak, Tobef etc) that are eight hundred and eighty six under ENL Consortium Nig. ltd gathered on 25 November, 2016 (Friday) to review the whole seven month old of their struggle, they workers have been demanding through peaceful and protest letters etc the private shipping company pay them their ten years unpaid benefit and arrears they worked for. Being there struggle have jump in-to the lane of legal battle with ENL, the workers agitation over this matter becomes more sharper in knowing what to do next to earn their victory. At the meeting that lasted for nearly two hours, there was a debate whether to procrastinate their weekly meeting till next year before their first court sitting on 22 February, 2017 between them Dock workers and ENL Consortium Nig. Ltd; or continued gathering together just the way it has been done for months now on discussing strategy to sustain their strug

'I am thinking to death In the casket of unforgiveness And can't be soften Be lenient to words When seen life edited Hang like roasted fish'