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Davy Fidel (Freelancer) O f course, road construction is a welcome development in any community that had long been abandoned. It is something no body in his or her right senses will object. However, to avoid a shaddy job, people in the Awodi-Ora community must be able to monitor the construction of the road. 

Davy Fidel, Freelancer  F ollowing the erupted "#ENDSARS" protests that broke grounds in many communities, and also states across the country - days of the protests, where thousands of young people were on the streets protesting. Not only to scrab SARS, due to persons who had met death in the hands of Special Anti-robbery Squad. But for the government to provide jobs and good living for people.  This spark also brings to mind the Endsars protest that took place in Ajegunle, a populated slum city in Lagos, where police brutality and extortion of young people and also abuse of democratic rights are of high record. The Campaigner via LIFEINSLUM was there to witnessed and covered this eventful story, a flame that touched the heavens and left a mark like tattoos on the chest of history.  ***** It was on Saturday, October 10, 2020. Group of young people, in their numbers,  spontaneously gathered at a popular bus stop: "People's", Olodi Apapa, to protest #EndSARS. The

  Davy Fidel (Freelancer) F ew days after the end of year, 2020. On January 5, 2021; the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, shock electricity consumers - Nigerians - with a new declaration to increase electricity tariff. This declaration for new increment by NERC came by way of an article titled: "FG increases electricity tariff again" (Punch January 5, 2021).

The Campaigner - a subsidiary of LIFEINSLUM - join well meaning Nigerians and electricity consumers to reject the recent hike of electricity tariff declared by Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, on 5 January, 2021; few days after the end of year 2020. 

Betting shop in Lagos. Source: Vanguard, Nigeria. By Davy Fidel  (Author/Freelancer)  I n the last five years, hundreds of Betting Operators: both online and at designated areas in the commercial cities of Lagos and across the country at large, have been licensed to start the operation of Sports Betting. In recent years the number of stakes in betting has increased drastically. 

Lagos - Wednesday 16/9/2020 affiliates members of the Joint Action Front, JAF, organised a protest rally, that is, a week after the one organised by SPN on party deregistration and the fuel hike.  The protest rally was to demand the total reversal of the N160 (which marketers already are selling for  N183) fuel hike and the 100% electricity tariff hike the Buhari administration has implemented.   Before the kick off from the NLC Secretariat, Yaba Lagos. The leadership of JAF, in the person of Abiodun Aremu, Achike and others  addressed the press, present to cover the protest march.  According to Abiodun Aremu he said, "the deregulation of the oil sector won't make fuel available or Nigerians to buy cheaper. Instead, what it will do is to put more money in the pocket of the capitalist politicians." Other speakers like Sina Odugbemi,  Achike also spoke. Achike said "Nigerians should not accept this pump price increment from the regime. We should oppose it and get ourse

At the September 10 World Suicide Prevention Day, a literary organization named: Aj House of Poetry organised a public awareness on "March Against Suicide." And members of Movement for a Socialist Alternative, and also, Nigerian Union of Teachers, Ajeromi Ifelodun branch were there to show solidarity to the group for organizing such a public awareness.  At exactly 7am, the group was out at Boundary square to sensitized residents and working people, on the challenges attached to suicide and why the increase, calls on the government to begin addressing what is leading to people committing suicide. Hundreds of the MSA leaflets on join the "March Against Suicide! March to Smash Capitalism" was widely circulated. The group also circulated their own leaflet on "World Suicide Prevention Day. Join the March Against Suicide." Some of the placards raised has the following demands and slogans: "Life is Precious, Please Don't Waste It. No Matter What, Life is