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The top echelons of the Nigerian senate have repeatedly claimed that the allegations of sexual harassment levelled by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio has nothing to do with her suspension from the Senate for half a year. According to the cock and bull story they want us all to believe, it is simply because she ostensibly flouted internal rules guiding the Senate procedures.  This position which had been peddled within the national sphere was echoed by the Senate Leader, Senator Bamidele Opeyemi speaking last week, faraway in New York through the mouth of Hon Kafila Ogbora , the chairman(!) of the house committee on women affairs and social development.  This was at a session of the International Parliamentary Union, which was organised as one of the activities of the 69th session of United Nations Conference on the Status of Women (CSW) that takes place there every year around the International Women’s Day.  Senator Akpoit-Uduaghan appear...

The living conditions of working-class people in Nigeria keep getting worse, while a handful of rich people keep getting richer. The situation has pushed us to the edge of existence. We cannot continue like this. The hardship we are facing is human made. It is the result of the policies that the government has put in place. Bola Ahmed Tinubu declared that “fuel subsidy is gone” the day he was sworn-in. Ever since then, fuel pump price, electricity tariffs, telecoms tariffs, prices of foodstuffs in the market and virtually of all commodities have all gone up. Our meagre salaries cannot buy anything substantial in the market. We struggle to send our children to school, and many have dropped out of school because parents can no longer afford the cost of tuition. Youth suicide is rising, driven by a spike in the number of students who die from suicide because neither they nor their parents can continue to bear the rising financial costs of their education. We are afraid to fall ill as we c...