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Nigeria

Environment & Climate Change

Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade

November 5, 2022 By Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM)

This year, floods have wreaked serious havoc and suffering in Nigeria. The country experiences floods every year but this is the worst since 2012 when there was a similar degree of devastation with 363 deaths […]

Nigeria

‘A cry for justice’ – one year since the murder of Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle, a.k.a Omomeewa

August 18, 2022 Statement by the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) Nigeria

Thursday 18 August 2022 makes it exactly one year that Comrade Nurudeen Alowonle, a.k.a Omomeewa, was brutally murdered. Until his unfortunate death, comrade Omomeewa was a leading student activist at the Lagos State University (LASU) […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Mass protests over closure of universities

July 27, 2022 By Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, CWI in Nigeria)

On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, there was a huge turnout of workers and other protesters in the state capitals across Nigeria for a nationwide protest called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over the continued […]

Nigeria

Segun Sango: Family, Comrades, and Friends bid Outstanding Revolutionary Socialist farewell

June 30, 2022 By Omole Ibukun

“A nation that is well endowed with human and material resources but perpetually held down in a state of coma is an absurdity that cannot be rationally justified unless you believe in the irrationality of […]

Nigeria

Segun Sango – an appreciation

June 23, 2022 By Robert Bechert, Member of the Committee for a Workers’ International Secretariat

Segun Sango (7 May 1958 – 23 May 2022) – founding member and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement, the CWI in Nigeria Many of the obituaries for and reminiscences of Segun Sango have […]

Nigeria

Nigeria’s 2023 general elections: For mass struggle and building of a working people’s political alternative!

June 9, 2022 H.T Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

In the absence of a genuine mass workers’ political alternative, it is now beyond doubt that the 2023 general elections in Nigeria will be dominated by two old, virulently anti-worker, anti-poor, and incurably corrupt presidential […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Massacre at Catholic church

June 7, 2022 Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) condemns the tragic attack on St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, Ondo State by yet-to-be-identified gunmen on Sunday 5 June 2022. We join Nigerians to mourn the scores who died while […]

Nigeria

Mob killing of student for “blasphemy” indicates danger of descent into full blown barbarism in Nigeria

May 19, 2022 Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, DSM (CWI Nigeria)

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) joins members of the public to condemn the brutal and gruesome killing on Thursday 12 May 2022 of Ms. Deborah Samuel, a second year student at Shehu Shagari College of […]

Nigeria

Nigerians suffer a cost of living crisis – organise and mobilise for mass actions now!

May 9, 2022 Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI in Nigeria) reporters

Ordinarily, Nigerians are no strangers to suffering. But if the truth must be told, the kind of suffering and misery being experienced by the mass of Nigerians over the past few months is second to […]

Nigeria

Horrific train attack by bandits indicative of Nigerian society’s deep social ills

April 11, 2022 Abiodun Bamigboye, Acting National Chairperson, Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary, Socialist Party Nigeria

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the tragic attack by terrorists on a Kaduna-bound train on Monday, March 28, 2022, and condoles with the families of the victims, as well as the leadership and […]

Nigeria

Fearing working masses, Nigerian government postpones removal of petrol price subsidy

February 1, 2022 Abiodun Bamigboye, Acting National Chairperson, and Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary, Socialist Party of Nigeria

On Monday 24 January 2022, the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Minister of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Zainab Ahmed, announced the postponement of the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products till further […]

Nigeria

Nigeria’s 2012 Uprising

January 11, 2022 H.T Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

When Strikes and protests nearly swept a capitalist regime out of power Ten years ago, instead of the festivities that often herald the New Year, Nigerian working people and youth started the year 2012 at […]

Nigeria

The worsening crises of Nigerian capitalism and prospect for class struggle

December 28, 2021 Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) National Executive Committee Statement

On Saturday 4 December 2021, 15 NEC members and organizers of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM – CWI Nigeria) from different states and areas of work gathered at a hybrid (in-person and zoom) NEC meeting […]

Nigeria

Lagos state white paper attempts to whitewash police massacre

December 2, 2021 Michael Lenin, National Coordinator and Francis Nwapa, National Secretary, Youth Rights Campaign (Nigeria)

November 30th saw Nigeria’s Lagos State government publish a ‘white paper’ in response to the Lagos State Judicial Panel that held a public inquiry into last year’s murderous assault on #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Official inquiry destroys government cover-up of massacre

November 17, 2021 Michael Lenin, National Coordinator, Francis Nwapa, National Secretary, Youth Rights Campaign (Nigeria)

This week, a report by Nigeria’s official Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the October 20, 2020, state attack on #End SARS protesters at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos, blew apart the Nigerian state’s continuous attempt […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Collapsed 21-story Ikoyi building – owners and Lagos government have case to answer

November 4, 2021 Statement by SPN Lagos State

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Lagos State Chapter, commiserates with the families of those who lost their lives and those injured in another tragic incident of building collapse in Lagos State. According to 2nd […]

Nigeria

Justice for October 2020  – EndSARS police brutality in Nigeria

October 20, 2021 Text of leaflet issued by Youth Rights Campaign (YRC), Nigeria

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest, the Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) salute all radical youth who stood against police brutality and state repression, last October, as well as those who […]

Nigeria

Pandora Papers shine light on Nigeria’s “fantastically corrupt” elite

October 18, 2021 HT Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Premium Times, along with a few other media organizations in Nigeria, has been publishing daily exposures of the revelations they unearthed, alongside 600 journalists from 150 news organizations around the world, in a global investigation […]

Nigeria

Book review: The legacy of British colonialism in Nigeria

October 4, 2021 Sophie Simcox, from Socialism Today (October 2021 issue), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

‘Nigeria is a failed state’. This was the headline of an article in the May 2021 edition of the US Foreign Affairs magazine, as two US academics, one of them previously US Ambassador to Nigeria, […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Comrade Omomeewa, student leader and socialist campaigner, killed by armed assailants

August 20, 2021 Statement from Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) website

Tragically, a CWI comrade in Nigeria, Nurudeen Alowonle a.k.a Omomeewa, was murdered in Lagos, late on 18 August. It is not clear why comrade Omomeewa, along with a supporter who was wounded and is now […]

Nigeria

Unemployment crisis in Nigeria – Time to build a fighting movement to demand jobs!

March 24, 2021 Adaramoye Michael Lenin, National Coordinator, Youth Rights Campaign (Nigeria)

The unemployment crisis in Nigeria has continued to worsen, together with the worrisome rate of poverty. According to a policy report by the Bureau of Public Service Reforms in 2018, the country needs to provide […]

Nigeria

What is the record of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the WTO’s new Director General?

February 19, 2021 H.T Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

For a continent often defined to the outside world by corrupt politicians, dictators and the notorious internet scammers, a success story in any legitimate endeavour elicits celebration. This explains the outpour of joy across Nigeria […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: “The police subjected us to torture while in custody”

February 16, 2021 Eyewitness report by Moshood Oshunfurewa, arrested Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI) branch organiser

A peaceful protest called by activists over the weekend, Saturday 13 February 2021, to protest the decision to reopen Lekki tollgate to business was openly and brutally repressed. This new repression following widespread protest against […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Violent police clampdown against peaceful protest over ‘Lekki shootings’

February 13, 2021 DSM Reporters, Lagos

A violent clampdown took place against protesters on Saturday 13 February 2021 as they were assembling to peacefully protest the decision of the Lagos State Judicial panel to reopen the tollgate where scores of protesters […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Worsening conflicts between herdsmen and farmers, and amongst ethnic groups

January 28, 2021 Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria)

This year has seen a further intensification of conflicts and clashes, in different parts of Nigeria, between herdsmen and farmers in some areas and different ethnic groups in others. This has added to the sense […]

Nigeria

Month of EndSARS Turmoil Shakes Buhari Regime

October 28, 2020 Robert Bechert, CWI

Nigeria has passed through nearly a month of turmoil. Video footage of the hated SARS police unit killing a man and driving off in his car was the spark for mass protests. Years of frustration, […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Buhari must go!

October 22, 2020 Socialist Democracy newspaper – Special Edition, October 2020

The Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) produced a special issue of its newspaper, Socialist Democracy, this week, as mass protests take place against repressive police and the Buhari government. Below is the text of the […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Military shoot unarmed protesters

October 21, 2020 Interview with Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

The military in Nigeria shot unarmed protesters at the Lekki toll plaza, in Lagos, earlier this week. Instead of taking action against the perpetrators, Nigerian President Buhari has remained silent. This follows a spontaneous mass […]

Africa

#EndSWAT: Outrage in Nigeria at government trick: Send solidarity messages to YRC

October 14, 2020 Youth Rights Campaign, Nigeria

Anger at replacement of hated SARS police unit by Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) units A renewed tidal wave of anger swept Nigeria after the police chief, Mohammed Adamu, announced that the now disbanded brutal, […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) dissolved after days of youth protests

October 12, 2020 Peluola Adewale, Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria)

The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) welcomes the news of the dissolution of the infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) across the 36 state commands and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by the Inspector General of Police […]

Nigeria

Sixty years since Nigeria’s independence – mass misery in the midst of huge resources

October 1, 2020 Peluola Adewale Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria)

It will be 60 years on 1 October since Nigeria got its flag independence from Britain during the decolonisation process of Africa. Faced with increasing demands for independence throughout its African colonies, British imperialism moved […]

Nigeria

Nigerian labour leaders postpone general strike at last minute

September 30, 2020 Socialist Party of Nigeria statement

A visible wave of anger and disappointment from labour activists and those wanting to defend living standards swept Nigeria as news came out that the country’s trade union leaders had, at the last minute, ‘suspended’ […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Organising against fuel and electricity price hikes

September 11, 2020 Peluola Adewale Organising Secretary, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

As Nigeria is hit by economic recession and Covid, protests are starting to develop against new added burdens of increases in fuel and electricity prices. These price hikes are just adding to the disillusionment and […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Socialists and journalists arrested for protesting government’s anti-poor policies

September 10, 2020 Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) statement

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) condemns the unjust arrest of members and journalists for protesting against anti-poor policies by the Buhari Government We demand for the immediate release of all arrested protesters We demand […]

CWI

Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) reaffirms commitment to Marxist ideas and working class orientation following months long debate

June 19, 2020 Peluola Adewale, on behalf of Democratic Socialist Movement NEC

Last year saw a split in and the re-foundation of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), as outlined in ‘Rebuilding the CWI, Lessons and tasks‘. Since the July 2019 re-foundation conference, the debate which […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Nigeria: Government locks down without adequate resources for the masses

April 29, 2020 Peluola Adewale, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

The Nigerian federal government ordered the lockdown of Lagos, Abuja and Ogun State as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, with effect from March 31, 2020. Lagos is the epicentre of covid-19 in […]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus: Capitalism fails to defend the health of millions of Nigerians

March 27, 2020 H.T Soweto, Lagos

Even though the figures are rising daily, it is not certain yet how disastrous the ravages of COVID-19 will be for Nigerians in terms of the number of infections and deaths. Economically, however, there is […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Socialist facing criminal charges for helping workers

February 28, 2020 Rufus Olusesan, National Chair CDWR

Drop Trumped-up Charges, Recall Sacked Workers and End Slave Conditions in Sumal Foods   Abiodun Bamigboye (Abbey Trotsky), the acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), is again due in court on […]

Nigeria

Socialist Party of Nigeria and seventy three other political parties de-registered – An assault on the right of political representation

February 11, 2020 From Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria) website

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) vehemently condemns and rejects the action and decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to deregister the SPN and other seventy-three political parties, allegedly for failing to win […]

Nigeria

Socialist Party of Nigeria condemns xenophobic attacks in South Africa

September 5, 2019 The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN)

* SPN calls on the Buhari/APC Government to Provide Decent Jobs and Better Life in order to Curb Desperate Migration * SPN calls for the Unity of Nigerian and South African Working Masses to end […]

Nigeria

SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS AND WITHOUT RETRENCHMENT

July 23, 2019 Abiodun Bamigboye, Acting National Chairperson. Chinedu Bosah, National Secretary

PRESIDENT BUHARI IS PAYING LIP SERVICE TO N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE LABOUR SHOULD MOBILISE WORKERS FOR A ONE-DAY WARNING GENERAL STRIKE AND MASS PROTEST SPN DEMANDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N30, 000 MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Stop police attacks on worker-activists – Defend workers’ rights! 

June 3, 2019 CWI

  As previously reported, the police in south-western Nigeria appear to be working hand in glove with the owners of Sumal Foods Limited (http://sumalfoods.com) to prevent its workforce winning gains and establishing a militant union presence […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Action needed to free Abiodun Bamigboye!

May 21, 2019 CWI

Comrade Abiodun Bamigboye is a leading member of Democratic Socialist Movement and acting National Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN). He was also the Oyo state governorship candidate of the SPN during the […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: President Buhari Re-elected amidst voters’ apathy

March 11, 2019 Peluola Adewale, Socialist Party Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari is the winner of the 2019 presidential election, held on February 23, having officially had 15 miliion as against 11 million votes garnered by his capitalist main challenger Atiku Abubakar of the […]

Nigeria

Nigeria elections – Main parties offer no alternative

January 3, 2019 By Ibukun Omole (Member, Democratic Socialist Movement)

Socialists raise banner of struggle  

Nigeria

Nigeria: Women’s oppression under patriarchy and capitalism

March 3, 2018 Women’s Committee, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

We women in Nigeria live in utter privation. We still face oppression of various kinds both at home, work, schools and in society – such as the refusal to legalize abortion (abortion rights), divorce rights, […]

Nigeria

Nigeria: Important step for Socialist Party of Nigeria

December 19, 2017 Interview with Hassan Taiwo Soweto and Abbey Trotsky by Per-Åke Westerlund at this year’s CWI International Executive Committee in Belgium

Court orders SPN be allowed to stand in elections.

Nigeria

Nigeria:  Oyo State workers' indefinite strike

July 4, 2016 CWI Reporters, Nigeria

"No Pay, No Work!"

Nigeria

Nigeria: General strike begins

May 18, 2016 HT Soweto, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

Determined leadership and clear strategy needed to succeed

Nigeria

Sudan: Solidarity from the Education Rights Campaign (ERC) – Nigeria with the student protests in Khartoum

April 20, 2016 Socialistworld.net

The ERC, the national student campaign linked to the DSM (CWI in Nigeria) is displaying its support for the student movement in Sudan

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