No pause in health workers’ struggles in Nigeria
As health workers’ trade unions in Nigeria call their membership to continue strike action over bad working conditions and missed payments, attempts to limit the space for industrial action persist
Seun Kuti: “The oppressed people of the world need to organize themselves for political power”
Seun Kuti talks to Vijay Prashad about the EndSARS movement in Nigeria, the need for broadening the movement and building popular resistance in the country, and more.
Panel says Nigerian army and police were responsible for death of over 100 EndSARS protesters
A leaked report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry which inquired into the killing of civilians in Lagos State in October 2020 indicted the army, police and other government institutions in the murder of over 100 protesters and its cover-up
Nigeria enacts petroleum industry bill with sweeping pro-corporate reforms
The Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 has been heavily criticized by the host communities in the Niger Delta. The bill reduces the royalties paid by oil companies, sets the ground to privatize the state oil corporation, and makes way for monopolization of fuel imports
Resident doctors in Nigeria go on indefinite strike over salary delays and poor work conditions
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors also claimed that only one out of 19 families of doctors who died during COVID-19 work have been paid compensation, so far
END SARS: The police force in Nigeria remains essentially colonial
Nigerian journalist and writer Chido Onumah talks about the END SARS protests, the atrocities of the security establishment, and the policy framework of the state over the past few decades
EndSARS protests continue in Nigeria two days after killing of close to a dozen people
The attack on protesters in Lagos on Tuesday has led to further protests both in the country and abroad. Nigerians have been protesting for systemic changes in policing since early October
Nigerian protesters stay on the streets defying armed thugs as army begins 2-month-long exercise
Reports of armed thugs being on the prowl and even attacking protesters have come from many cities. The protests in Nigeria began on October 8 demanding the abolition of the infamous SARS police units
Nigerians demand an end to police brutality
At least ten people are reported to have been killed in police repression of the protests.
Protests against police violence in Nigeria continue for the sixth day
The protesters’ main demands are the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the police and an end to police brutality. The government was forced to give in and dissolve SARS
Oil workers in Nigeria strike over withheld salaries
The government has refused to pay state employees for the last three months who have not enrolled in the centralized payment platform
Nigeria’s Human Rights Commission blocks workers’ strike with court order
Unionized workers of NHRC were set to embark on an indefinite strike to demand the implementation of national minimum wage and payment of missing wages
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