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At exactly 4:15pm on Sunday 13 August, 2017, some group of activists under the watch of Ajeromi Ifelodun United Interest for Justice (AIUIJ) called for mass sensitization campaign through rally in the dense populated ghetto slum of Ajegunle for people to collectively in a peaceful organize manner to reject crazy bill, resist disconnection and demand for free prepaid metre.  Other organizations like the Ajegunle Peoples’ Movement (APM) under the aegis of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Iyalode Electricity Community Development Association and others; also actively participated in the mass sensitization rally to leafleting people about the crazy billing Eko Distribution Company dredge residents of Ajegunle to anger.

Undermining that the Labour Industrial Court didn't sit on Thursday November 2, 2016 over the matter between the Agitating Dock Workers Forum and their employer: Energy Neftegas Limited (ENL) over the non-payment of salary for ten years,  was postponed till Tuesday, November 28, 2017. Despite the transfer of Justice Amadi-the presiding judge of the case in Court 5- had a replacement of Justice Nwodo. J to resume sit on Monday November 6 and commence presiding in Court 6. However, hundreds of workers were in the street of Lagos to protest and demonstrate for their salaries to be paid after their disengagement since March 2016. The assembled workers at Marina-CMS kick off the rally at exactly 7:30 am to Labour Industrial Court at Ikoyi,  Lagos.  All of them were dressed in white signifying they were non-violent demonstrators and protesters  denied their ten years unpaid salary and other benefit. Key leaders of the struggle like Pastor Adams addressed the workers. He said. "

LIFEINSLUM: HOTEL BUSINESS IS GROWING IN REPLACEMENT OF WELFAR... : Hotel business is fast growing and flooding all poor communities all over the world. China, the United States, Europe, Africa etc are...

Hotel business is fast growing and flooding all poor communities all over the world. China, the United States, Europe, Africa etc are not exempted. In fact, virtually all corners in the commercial or mega cities of the world have either hotel or club house that employ possibly young girls and boys into the sex industry to labour for the business to expand beyond its industrial expectation. Among the business flourishing, hotel is one of the biggest rated industries that promote casualization of women and staff. For the hotel casuals the payment is low and they can be laid-off at any time by the employer after months or years of exploitation. The operation of this business has razed down a lot of homes in many communities for the operators own purpose and interest to continue. For this business to continue to grow state protection is necessary. Limited access to public education and the collapse of recreational centres to preoccupy young people for them to explore their p

It is no news that the daily increase of liquor joints in poor community has tripled.  Compare to the sixty's, seventy’s and eighty's including ninety' we have less numbers of these joints, people on daily basis troop in like repatriated refugees for bread. In fact,  you see people in the very hour of when able women and men should be going to work; will now be seen around in any of the joint in the area, in a strategic location in the community from the hour of 6am to possibly 12noon.  A lot of these people will burn hours drinking away the day loaded with crisis.  Crisis that they can't attend to due to failure of the system has been designed for them in the country. Others are with the myth the liquor is going to cure any infection they have.  There is a joint I know which is owned by a lady popularly called: "Aunt Blessing" in one of the areas I usually visit. Around 7am, a lot of grown men (who should have been working, pensioners, a

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.