Archive of older articles (2005)
"Concerned Mothers" and police brutality:
A product of Obasanjo Government's zero tolerance to opposition to its action and policies
19 December 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) condemns the barbaric and provocative assaults the Nigerian Police unleashed on the peaceful protest of Concerned Mothers of Nigeria on Friday December 16, 2005 in Ikeja, Lagos.
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Sosoliso Plane Crash – An Air disaster too many
CDWR Demands Overhaul of Aviation Industry
15 December 2005
The issue of plane crashes in recent times in Nigeria is a case of one incident too many. Reports being circulated shows that the Sosoliso 1145 DC-9 plane mishap on Saturday December 10, 2005 at the Port Harcourt Airport either caught fire in mid-air or landed, shattered and caught fire, leading to the death of 108 passengers and crew with a critically burnt survivor being attended to at the hospital.
Click here to read the entire article
CDWR condemns government invasion of daily independent newspapers
Press statement
26 October 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) condemns in strong terms the brutal, insensitive and utterly inhuman acts of destruction, brutality, and intimidation meted out on workers of the Daily Independent Newspapers while its premises was invaded by some armed mobile policemen and officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning and Development Authority on Monday, October 24, 2005.
Click here to read the entire article
Adequate funding of education - not multiple examination and restrictive admission!
Statement of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC)
October 2005
The policy that suggests that when admission is restricted to 147,000 in the 75 federal universities and having to conduct multiple examinations (JAMB, and now the new Post-JAMB) is the effective way of resolving university education shows how reactionary and myopic the ruling class can be.
Click here to read the entire article
CDRW blames federal government over the Bellview plane crash
Press statement
25 October 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights [CDWR] unequivocally holds the Capitalist System, it’s insatiable greed and consideration for profit for a few over and against the consideration of safety, comfort and respect for human lives in general responsible for the death of 117 people on board in the colossal crash of a Boeing 737 – 210 plane owned by Bellview Airlines...
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Regime change is our stand - Mass resistance is our vehicle - System change is our goal
Text of Press Conference given by the Joint Action Forum (JAF) on August 31, 2005 at the Centre for Constitutional Governance, Lagos.
(Members of the CDRWN are part of the Joint Action Forum which is mobilising against the latest rise in fuel prices and issued this statement in Lagos.)
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Oppose the hike in fuel prices
26 August 2005
This week the Obasanjo government has pushed through a further 50% plus increase in fuel prices, bringing the price for a liter of petrol to around N74 (about 55 US cents) compared with N22 when it first came into office in 1999. On 25th August the Lagos State Chapter of the NCP issued the following statement opposing the latest increase.
Click here to read the entire article
Say No to the "New Guidelines" on Trade Union Act now!
28 July 2005
The new "Guidelines" released on July 19, 2005 by the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity "to aid the implementation of the existing labour law" as reported by The Punch Newspaper of July 27, 2005 is inimical and antithetical to section 40 of 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards and conventions.
Click here to read the entire article
UNILORIN sacked lecturers: UNILORIN authorities must obey court orders
Press statement of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC)
27 July 2005
After four years, legal victory came the way of the 49 lecturers of the University of Ilorin that were sacked in May 2001 by the UNILORIN authorities for their participation in the nationwide strike called by the National Executive Committee (NEC) Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) to demand for better funding of the university education among other demands.
Click here to read the entire article
Release the detained airforce workers now!
Press statement
30 June 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) wholly and unequivocally condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention of civilian members of staff of the Ministry of Defence by Air Force officers at their Ikeja base.
Click here to read the entire article
CDWR supports JUSAN strike action
Press statement
23 June 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers' Rights (CDWR) sends this solidarity message and political support to the entire Judiciary workers in Nigeria under the umbrella body of the “Judiciary Staff Association of Nigeria” (JUSAN)...
Click here to read the entire article
Education Rights Campaign condemns killing of OOU students
Wale Eleto, ERC Coordinator
23 June 2005
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns in its totality the killing of students of Onabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State by the Ago-Iwoye vigilance group and at Oba Abdul-Rasaq Adesina Adenugba palace on Thursday 16th June, 2005.
Click here to read the entire article
Defend expelled Nigerian students at OAU University, Ile-Ife
Defend the right to protest
The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, have decided to expel seven students from university. The main reason for the expulsion is the students’ political activity in the student union and follows student protests which were held in November last year.
Click here to read the entire article
Abrogate the 2005 trade union act now!
Statement issued on April 1 by the CDWR in Lagos in response to President Obasanjo signing into effect a new anti-trade union law
Click here to read the entire article
Oil workers' proposed strike: Government should meet the demands now and not strategise to defeat the strike!
Statement issued on March 31 by the CDWR in Lagos in support of the strike being planned by oil workers
Click here to read the entire article
Victimised Flour Mills workers, Lagos
Appeal for solidarity
Victor Osakwe
28 Mar 2005
Some workers of Flour Mills Nigeria PLC, one of the leading agro-allied companies in Nigeria, have been victimised by this company while fighting for improved working conditions and the compensation for a co-worker who died while working at the company on Wednesday 9th March 2005.
Click here to read the entire article - - - Send protest letter
"Concerned Mothers" and police brutality:
A product of Obasanjo Government's zero tolerance to opposition to its action and policies
19 December 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) condemns the barbaric and provocative assaults the Nigerian Police unleashed on the peaceful protest of Concerned Mothers of Nigeria on Friday December 16, 2005 in Ikeja, Lagos.
Click here to read the entire article
Sosoliso Plane Crash – An Air disaster too many
CDWR Demands Overhaul of Aviation Industry
15 December 2005
The issue of plane crashes in recent times in Nigeria is a case of one incident too many. Reports being circulated shows that the Sosoliso 1145 DC-9 plane mishap on Saturday December 10, 2005 at the Port Harcourt Airport either caught fire in mid-air or landed, shattered and caught fire, leading to the death of 108 passengers and crew with a critically burnt survivor being attended to at the hospital.
Click here to read the entire article
CDWR condemns government invasion of daily independent newspapers
Press statement
26 October 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights (CDWR) condemns in strong terms the brutal, insensitive and utterly inhuman acts of destruction, brutality, and intimidation meted out on workers of the Daily Independent Newspapers while its premises was invaded by some armed mobile policemen and officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning and Development Authority on Monday, October 24, 2005.
Click here to read the entire article
Adequate funding of education - not multiple examination and restrictive admission!
Statement of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC)
October 2005
The policy that suggests that when admission is restricted to 147,000 in the 75 federal universities and having to conduct multiple examinations (JAMB, and now the new Post-JAMB) is the effective way of resolving university education shows how reactionary and myopic the ruling class can be.
Click here to read the entire article
CDRW blames federal government over the Bellview plane crash
Press statement
25 October 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers Rights [CDWR] unequivocally holds the Capitalist System, it’s insatiable greed and consideration for profit for a few over and against the consideration of safety, comfort and respect for human lives in general responsible for the death of 117 people on board in the colossal crash of a Boeing 737 – 210 plane owned by Bellview Airlines...
Click here to read the entire article
Regime change is our stand - Mass resistance is our vehicle - System change is our goal
Text of Press Conference given by the Joint Action Forum (JAF) on August 31, 2005 at the Centre for Constitutional Governance, Lagos.
(Members of the CDRWN are part of the Joint Action Forum which is mobilising against the latest rise in fuel prices and issued this statement in Lagos.)
Click here to read the entire article
Oppose the hike in fuel prices
26 August 2005
This week the Obasanjo government has pushed through a further 50% plus increase in fuel prices, bringing the price for a liter of petrol to around N74 (about 55 US cents) compared with N22 when it first came into office in 1999. On 25th August the Lagos State Chapter of the NCP issued the following statement opposing the latest increase.
Click here to read the entire article
Say No to the "New Guidelines" on Trade Union Act now!
28 July 2005
The new "Guidelines" released on July 19, 2005 by the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity "to aid the implementation of the existing labour law" as reported by The Punch Newspaper of July 27, 2005 is inimical and antithetical to section 40 of 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards and conventions.
Click here to read the entire article
UNILORIN sacked lecturers: UNILORIN authorities must obey court orders
Press statement of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC)
27 July 2005
After four years, legal victory came the way of the 49 lecturers of the University of Ilorin that were sacked in May 2001 by the UNILORIN authorities for their participation in the nationwide strike called by the National Executive Committee (NEC) Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) to demand for better funding of the university education among other demands.
Click here to read the entire article
Release the detained airforce workers now!
Press statement
30 June 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) wholly and unequivocally condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention of civilian members of staff of the Ministry of Defence by Air Force officers at their Ikeja base.
Click here to read the entire article
CDWR supports JUSAN strike action
Press statement
23 June 2005
The Campaign for Democratic and Workers' Rights (CDWR) sends this solidarity message and political support to the entire Judiciary workers in Nigeria under the umbrella body of the “Judiciary Staff Association of Nigeria” (JUSAN)...
Click here to read the entire article
Education Rights Campaign condemns killing of OOU students
Wale Eleto, ERC Coordinator
23 June 2005
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) condemns in its totality the killing of students of Onabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State by the Ago-Iwoye vigilance group and at Oba Abdul-Rasaq Adesina Adenugba palace on Thursday 16th June, 2005.
Click here to read the entire article
Defend expelled Nigerian students at OAU University, Ile-Ife
Defend the right to protest
The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, have decided to expel seven students from university. The main reason for the expulsion is the students’ political activity in the student union and follows student protests which were held in November last year.
Click here to read the entire article
Abrogate the 2005 trade union act now!
Statement issued on April 1 by the CDWR in Lagos in response to President Obasanjo signing into effect a new anti-trade union law
Click here to read the entire article
Oil workers' proposed strike: Government should meet the demands now and not strategise to defeat the strike!
Statement issued on March 31 by the CDWR in Lagos in support of the strike being planned by oil workers
Click here to read the entire article
Victimised Flour Mills workers, Lagos
Appeal for solidarity
Victor Osakwe
28 Mar 2005
Some workers of Flour Mills Nigeria PLC, one of the leading agro-allied companies in Nigeria, have been victimised by this company while fighting for improved working conditions and the compensation for a co-worker who died while working at the company on Wednesday 9th March 2005.
Click here to read the entire article - - - Send protest letter