LIFEINSLUM

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.

Jungle Justice that people thought was a thing of the past, a barbaric way of prosecuting those caught in the act of crime. It is now returning back like Viking claws into most poor rural and urban communities due to the fear of what is haunting people: Poverty. It was Saturday morning 6 January, 2018 in the very hour of 5:45am at Ojo Road, when people were going to work. I heard a sound that got me distracted and shovel off my feet from where I was. "Kill him! Kill him! He is a thief!". Immediately I heard this, I left home in a hurry to witnessed what I just heard. When I went outside to pick up the information that led to the shout. I saw a lady whose name is 'Ego' (a resident in the neighborhood) who witnessed the incident.

After I finished reading Illiterate America by Jonathan Kozol, a book that unveiled the innermost part of American illiteracy. A book that catches my attention and got me shocked. I then decided to write this.  Thus, it is no more a news that illiteracy in the world has grown rapidly in the last twenty years or more, because of the collapse of public schools caused by politicians who are responsible to its degeneration. According to Kozol, he said in America the growth of illiteracy (as at mid-80s) was high as more than 60 million Americans which cut across adult and teenagers can't read and write. In present time, it has tripled.

By Davy Fidel Freelancer G lobal warming is now a world debate among leading nations on how to tackle the occurrence directly affecting the environment. Yet, resolutions end in the lip.  Suggestions from scientific experts have been put forward on several occasions on the possible energy source to power industrialization to save our planet but such effort are always swept behind by leading nations: China, the United States, Germany, Britain etc on this worrisome issues affecting the environment.

The stories about Kirikiri Town are not a myth but fact. It is something worth writing about.  It is something worth sharing the experience of people who reside there and what possibly they go through most especially the condition of the area, the terrible roads suffering at government palm.  For a lot of people outside this community is a reserved area for more or less the fading "middle class" that in this degenerated economy is handcuffed. A reserved area is not meant for everyone to reside. However, the opposite speaks for itself. It was on Saturday November 4, 2017 that I was invited to a wedding at Kirikiri Town of a fellow colleague, teaching in the same weekend tutorial centre of Top Academic Associate (TAA). Actually, this is the first time the earth of that place bore witness visited. It was a rich experience one has to write something about it.  In spite of the hype given by commentaries and stories, however,  the very thing I saw there is a mind-blowing