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NLC Contradicts Minister on Electricity Tariff Hike, Insists on Status Quo Ante

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2021In: SpectacleTags: DISCOs, GENCOs, NERC, NLCNo CommentsViews:
NLC Contradicts Minister on Electricity Tariff Hike, Insists on Status Quo Ante

Those who do not believe that the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) can go beyond barking might have another thing coming in 2021. The key central labour platform is sending a different signal,... Read more

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NLC Threatens Unprecedented Industrial Resistance to Increase in Electricity Tariff, Debunks Govt’s Denial

Posted By: adminon: January 06, 2021In: Policy & GovernanceTags: COVID-19, NERC, NLCNo CommentsViews:
NLC Threatens Unprecedented Industrial Resistance to Increase in Electricity Tariff, Debunks Govt’s Denial

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) has completely rejected a rise in electricity tariff which the government agency responsible for electricity pricing has been denying. The NLC said in a st... Read more

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Clash and Convergence of Narratives at Dr Yima Sen’s Memorial Lecture

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2020In: LifeworldTags: Amartya Sen, ARDP, CBOs, J. S Tarka, MBF, NLC, Universsity of LagosNo CommentsViews:
Clash and Convergence of Narratives at Dr Yima Sen’s Memorial Lecture

The Memorial Lecture in honour of a hero of radical politics in Nigeria, Dr. Yima Sen, was fixed to start on the dot of 10 am November11th, 2020 at the National Women Centre. But it was not... Read more

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JAF Beats Drums of Street Protest Across Nigeria Later This Week

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2020In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Babangida regime, NLC, VATNo CommentsViews:
JAF Beats Drums of Street Protest Across Nigeria Later This Week

The Joint Action Front, (JAF), is beating the drum of street protest from September 16th, 2020. Unlike typical JAF street actions which hardly go beyond one or two spots in Lagos, this is to... Read more

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Buhari’s Immunity Against Popular Protest in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Garri, NLC, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Buhari’s Immunity Against Popular Protest in Nigeria

So, how might we understand why there is no street action against President Buhari in 2020 for the same hike in fuel price that former President Goodluck Jonathan was roasted in the first tr... Read more

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Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2020In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Chinua Achebe, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y DanjumaNo CommentsViews:
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

On September 3rd, 2016 when Intervention first carried this piece, (https://intervention.ng/4465/), it was responded to as disrespectful and there was a price to pay. But Intervention has ne... Read more

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May Day Celebration in the Time of Demobilising Social Distancing

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2020In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 1886, Chicago-USA, NLC, SolidarityNo CommentsViews:
May Day Celebration in the Time of Demobilising Social Distancing

The author, an erstwhile chief publicist of the nationalist tradition in the NLC writes on the paradox of a virus rather than repression compelling workers to forgo making this year’s May Da... Read more

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25 Years of the ‘Marital Turn’ Among Comrades in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 22, 2020In: LifeworldTags: CD, NANS, NLC, NMA, NUNS, PYMN, SAP, WINNo CommentsViews:
25 Years of the 'Marital Turn' Among Comrades in Nigeria

It was, indeed, a new phase when many stalwarts of the long, National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) led struggle against military dictatorship started getting married around the l... Read more

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Radical Activists Reject Break – Up of Nigeria, Celebrates Swedish Political Economist, Bjorn Beckman (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2020In: LifeworldTags: CRD, MPN, NLC, Prof Ango Abdullahi, WINNo CommentsViews:
Radical Activists Reject Break – Up of Nigeria, Celebrates Swedish Political Economist, Bjorn Beckman (2)

Two speakers did not agree with Prof Bayo Olukoshi. They were Prof Ebere Onwudiwe and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, governor of Ekiti State. Onwudiwe argues that thematising the event in terms of the f... Read more

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Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2020In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, Claude Ake, Marxism, NANS, NLC, Political economyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Holds Memorial Colloquium for Prof Bjorn Beckman

Four months after his death, friends, former colleagues, ex-students and critics of the late Prof Bjorn Beckman are gathering to take another look at his scholarship and activism in relation... Read more

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