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Nigeria, 2003 elections: Lessons for the National Conscience Party

April 27, 2003  

On 22nd April, 2003, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for a second term. According to the electoral body, […]

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Nigeria: Obasanjo’s election victory — a poisoned chalice

April 23, 2003 Robert Bechert, CWI

Amid growing charges of vote rigging Olusegun Obasanjo seems to be on course to be declared winner of Nigeria’s bitterly contested 19 April Presidential election. How stable his rule will be is a very different […]

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Iraq: Nigeria – NANS says no to war on Iraq

March 5, 2003 Alayande Stepten T., Coordinator.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D, i.e. the coordinating organ of all Nigerian students in all tertiary institutions in the South-West states is using this medium to officially solidarise with millions of […]

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Nigeria: Working class districts welcome National Conscience Party election campaign

February 7, 2003 CWI correspondent, Lagos

At least 1,200 enthusiastic members and supporters of the National Conscience Party (NCP) attended a Lagos rally on 1 February 2003 launching the Nigerian election campaign of the Party. The NCP is the most radical […]

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Nigeria: Victory for Kabelmetal workers

February 7, 2003 By members of DSM, Lagos, Nigeria

Rufus Olusesan, a worker, trade union activist, and DSM (Democratic Socialist Movement – CWI in Nigeria) member, was unjustly and arbitrarily sacked by the management of Nexans Kabelmetal Nigeria Plc, Ikeja, Lagos, who on 7 […]

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Nigeria: National Conscience Party activists fight election hurdles

February 4, 2003 By a CWI correspondent in Nigeria

Members of the National Conscience Party (NCP), including members of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), organised an all-Lagos demo on Wednesday 22 January against the sudden imposition of high "processing" fees for all election candidates. […]

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Nigeria: Radical opposition holds special congress

January 16, 2003 DSM National Secretariat, Lagos

A special congress of the Lagos State chapter of the National Conscience Party (NCP) was held in Lagos on Monday, 6 January 2003. The main purpose of the congress was to elect party candidates for […]

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Nigeria: Support sacked worker activist

January 13, 2003 Olamide Olatunji and Ojo Olajire, Lagos.

The Steel and Engineering Workers’ Union of Nigeria (SEWUN) picketed the Nexans’ Kabelmetal factory in Lagos on Friday 10 January 2003 to demand the reinstatement of Rufus Olusesan, a member of the Democratic Socialist Movement, […]

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Nigeria: Registration of NCP – Another victory for the working people

January 1, 2003 CWI

The registration of the National Conscience Party (NCP) and twenty-one other political parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) represents a major victory for the Nigerian working people in their struggle for democratic rights […]

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Nigeria: Exploitation and poverty behind riots

November 28, 2002 From The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party, England and Wales section of the CWI.

AN INFLAMATORY Nigerian newspaper article connected to the Miss World contest sparked off bloody religious sectarianism in the northern city of Kaduna. The fighting later flared in the capital Abuja leaving 215 people dead, 1,200 […]

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