25 July 2026
Unions

 ERC Slams Students Over Dangote Protest

 The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Oyo State Chapter, has frowned on the National Association of Oduduwa Students (NAOS), which recently held a protest in support of the Dangote Refinery. The protest, which took place in Ibadan on October 7, 2025, backed the refinery’s management amid a dispute with oil workers’ unions over the sack of

Read More
Features

Ali Must Go: How a Student Protest Changed Nigeria’s Education Story

In 1978, Nigerian students rose in unison and shook the country. What started as anger over a slight increase in school feeding allowance became one of the most remembered protests in Nigeria’s history. It was called the “Ali Must Go” protest, and it left lessons that are still relevant today. The issue began when the

Read More