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Developing debt disaster

20 June 2023 - by Michael Roberts

Next week 300 international organisations and 100 heads of state meet in Paris to discuss how “to build a more responsive, fairer and more inclusive international financial system to fight inequalities, finance the climate transition, and bring (...)
Nigeria: Extraction-driven devastation: an interview with Nnimmo Bassey

28 April 2021 - by Nnimmo Bassey, ROAPE

In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins represent decades of community organizing on the part of Niger Delta activists and residents. ROAPE’s Lee Wengraf (...)
Nigerian Women vs SARS: A Coalition Against Police Brutality

27 October 2020 - by Naomi Ndifon

Writer Naomi Ndifon shares why it is critical we center Nigerian women’s leadership and activism in the #ENDSARS movement. Let it be known that the Feminist Coven did that Whenever revolutions are documented, women are erased. History is (...)
Alert on the sophistication of illegitimate debt techniques via mobile telephony

8 November 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

In the era of widespread mobile telephony, we witnessed certain capitalist firms employing a sophistication of techniques to ensure the illegitimate debt of the lower classes. Kenya, a country of 50 million people, is considered to be at the (...)
Can union organising help save Nigeria’s textile industry?

2 July 2018 - by Ismail Bello, Otas Belinda

Trade Unions in Transformation: A Case Study of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria Funke Omoniyi Johnson is the founder of Mama Tee Fashion and Saidat Taiwo Oshodi is the proud owner of Sai Tai Enterprises (...)
The EU caught in the trap of Nigeria’s refusal to sign the West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement and the Continental Free Trade Area

9 May 2018 - by Jacques Berthelot

The EU caught in the trap of Nigeria’s refusal to sign the West Africa Economic Partnership Agreement and the Continental Free Trade Area On April 9, 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria very explicitly stated to the new Ambassador of the (...)
Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline: Not in Our Interest

23 March 2018 - by Collective

In December 2016, an announcement was made of a nearly 5000 km Nigeria-Morocco offshore gas pipeline which at today’s prices will cost an estimated 20 billion US dollars. In reality, the actual costs will likely be much higher. This pipeline (...)
EPA Agreement: Stakeholders Urges FG To Decide On Time

4 August 2015 - by Ademola Oyejide

Stakeholders have warned Nigeria against signing the should take a position either to sign or reject the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) agreement between Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and European Union (EU). Nigeria (...)
Nigeria: World Bank panel turns its back on forcibly evicted community

29 July 2014 - by Amnesty international

The decision by a World Bank Inspection Panel to refuse to investigate a complaint about forced evictions linked to a World Bank project in Lagos shows a complete disregard for its responsibilities, Amnesty International said today. On (...)
Nigeria: Debt and Corruption

18 July 2005 - by Nnimmo Bassey

There are few issues that have captured the airwaves in Nigeria more than the twin campaigns in favor of debt relief and against corruption. A photograph of Nigeria’s former top cop made the front pages only to be followed the next day by (...)
Nigerian legislature calls for repudiation of debt

11 March 2005 - by Ben Agande Abuja, Josephine Lohor Abuja, Olusegun Adeniyi

Three articles from Nigerian press about the Nigerian legislature calls for repudiation of debt. The Verdict: To Hell With Our Creditors? by Olusegun Adeniyi This Day (Lagos), March 17, 2005 When President Olusegun Obasanjo last week (...)