LIFEINSLUM

Photo: Pulse.ng In recent time, the rise of teenagers moving into the street is getting people worried. Probably more than 60  percent of them especially in most poor communities like in Mushin, Ajegunle, Shomolu, Agege etc have lost it totally for drugs, prostitution, thuggery, robbery etc in order to move on with life.  For hundreds of them both boys and girls, who have resorted to this path, see whatever they have preoccupied themselves with as a means to afford the missing opportunity of life.

After the last council election conducted July 2017 at Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area in fifteen Wards including the Local Council Development Area (LCDA) respectively . The All Progressive Congress (APC)  won all the wards rigging massively with inflated figures in order to return to power. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who nailed the APC with ballot box snatching was not different either. 

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.