Unpaid Salaries & Pensions Result in Thousands of Deaths
and two workers are killed during demonstration in Nasarawa
The condemnable spate of unpaid salaries and pensions across the country is taking a lethal toll across the country....
Falsification of Age by New Prisons Boss
Shows the fraud of an anti-corruption campaign!
Kick him and the Minister of Interior Out, NOW!!
Mr Ja'afru Ahmed, the newly appointed Comptroller-general of Prisons is clearly a fraudulent character...
Budget “Padding” and the Bosses’ Rule
The revelations by Mr. Abdulmumin Jubrin, who was until recently Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation goes to confirm the fact which working...
Sexual Harassment Bill – Against Lecturers
A bill prohibiting sexual harassment of students by lecturers in tertiary educational institutions has passed its second reading in the Senate. The Senators in its affirmation debate on...
A Critical Look at Globalisation
In his critical introduction to “Globalization and the Nigerian Labour Movement”, the labour activist and intellectual, Femi Aborisade, gave in-depth definition of globalization.
He categorizes the...
Capitalism Breeds Corruption – Worldwide
Quite often, elites in advanced capitalist countries and International Financial Institutions such as IMF & World Bank present corruption as a problem of the...
A Report of the General Strike
The tenth general strike in Nigeria since 1999 was recently ‘suspended’ by the Nigeria Labour Congress after five days. The strike was against the...
After the General Strike: the Struggle Continues
There have been controversies and confusion in the last two weeks over the mass action organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress and its civil...
WE CANNOT PAY N145 PER LITRE! WE WILL NOT PAY 1KOBO MORE!! NO TO...
United Action for Democracy, the pan-Nigerian coalition of radical civic organisations which SWL is affiliated to responds to the draconian hike in the price...
Real wages have collapsed with the naira. Cost of living keeps rising. We must:...
Nigerian workers have been plunged into a terrible situation of hunger, suffering and indebtedness. Never before has real wages fallen to the level they...
Kick out the Corrupt Senate!
Corruption has always been the favourite pastime of the rich and mighty in Nigeria. While they are ever quick to point out that there...
Nigeria on the Precipice; A Case for Socialism
Nigeria was created by the British colonialists as part of its imperialist expansion in Africa, for the accumulation of capital. The colonialists did not...
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The 1989 Anti-SAP Revolt
In 1989, thousands rose in protest against the IMF and World Bank-inspired Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). This supported the lavish lifestyles of corrupt government...