LIFEINSLUM

Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb that is not far from explosion. Perhaps with the current reality it depicts danger. In short, if nothing practically is done to address this tension and incoming disaster that awaits this country, the repercussion will be hullabaloo and very enormous to manage. As things stand, the Nigerian economy is in total paralysis where all public corporations are in total coma and smorgasbord. 

Ajegunle - As 1929 was when thousands of women in Aba rose against the British colonial tax on the poor which was introduced by the British colonial Lords and Merchants to augment the colossal lost of the First World War 1914 - 18; so also today recorded in Ajegunle, Lagos. 

LAGOS - This year May Day for the United Labour Congress was significant. Thousands of the ULC members gathered under the Bridge at Ojuelagba on May 1st International Workers Day to demand for 96000 Naira new minimum wage.

The Pre May Day public symposium of the United Labour Congress (ULC) organized by the ULC Lagos Chapter held on Friday 30 April, 2018 at Air Port Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos; was a fire ball that tore the thick skin of the heavens. Agitated solidarity songs lit the hall immediately the program started at exactly 11:15am.

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.