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Electricity Struggle Mass Meeting in Ajegunle - photo DSM  The ongoing campaign against electricity exploitation and extortion by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) initiated by Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Ajegunle, on 5 April, 2017 has won wide support and generated mass struggle including mass meetings, community-wide agitations and a protest march. An average of 80 community members often attends each of the mass meetings. The DSM is playing crucial roles in this struggle with a member of the DSM

Captured from a protest march in Ajegunle community THE Federal Government is seeking $5.2 billion from the World Bank to expand the country’s electricity generation, the Minister of Power Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said.  Fashola who made this disclosure to Bloomberg, said the fund is expected to help the country recover from its first recession in 25 years. According to him, the World Bank’s

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In the very hour of 8:00 am on Thursday 6 April, 2017 over one hundred students from different tertiary institutions led by SAVE UNILAG COALITION staged a united protest at the Special Offenses Mobile Court inside Lagos State Task Force Building located at Bolade, Oshodi, Lagos state. The mobile court is a special creation of the Lagos State government – a government bent on literarily whipping to death poor working class families with draconian anti-policies. The April 6 protest was to demand the release of Adeyeye Femi and 12 other students' protesters who were brought before the court on that day for continuation of trial on false charges.

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....