Baba Aye's

The National Bureau of Statistics release that poverty is on the increase in Nigeria with over 70% of its citizens (ie over 70% of Nigerians) living below the poverty line (ie $1 = N160 per day) is really no news to us. On the contrary, it goes to confirm the lie of NEEDS which SURE amplifies that on the basis of capitalism in general and its neoliberal practice in particular, like could be made b...etter for more Nigerians. The increase in fuel prices will make matters worse, indeed has started making matters worse and now we have been told by the Nigerian state that electricity tariff would be increased by 88% in about a month's time & further that we should still expect another increase in the price of petrol any time from now. What is to be done? We demonstrated this in January, a sign of things to come: build workers & youths power on the streets to reclaim our destiny & this time...take it to the logical conclusion of kicking out the capitalist fat cats, emancipat...

When Zuccotti Park was taken over on September 17 by a few hundreds of protesters, marking the beginning of what would become the Occupy Movement, the mainstream press where it gave the event any attention at all considered it as “irrelevant” and a sort of “circus”. The billionaire Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg felt the occupation demonstration was harmless enough and could be easily kettled. Qith ease then he had said "people have a right to protest, and if they want to protest, we'll be happy to make sure they have locations to do it.” Today, the call to “Occupy Everything” rings across some 80 countries in the world sparking actions of protesters taking over streets with tents in well over a hundred countries at some time or the other. The apogee of this global protest occupation was on October 15 commencing the generalisation of the occupy movement as an international trend of alternative politics, in a sense and more aptly as an alternative narrative signifier in w...