IT is May Day. As usual Nigerian workers will join their counterparts worldwide to organize rallies, essentially protest rallies to draw attention to issues of interest to the working class.

JOINT Action Front, JAF, umbrella body for pro-labour civil society groups in the country, has called on Nigerian workers to be in the vanguard of the struggle for a system change as they join their counterparts across the world to mark today May Day celebration, otherwise known as “Workers Day.”

TENS of thousands of people around the world are taking to the streets today to mark May 1st. What else is new? Well, plenty.

Campaign for Democratic Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on leaders of NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, to wake up to their responsibilities of defending and fighting for workers’ rights.

Nine months after the Lagos State Tenancy Law 2011 and State Park and Gardens Law 2011 came into effect; there is growing skepticism about whether the state government is genuinely serious on implementing the law.

Hon Olusegun Olulade is the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Strategy and Publicity, representing Epe Constituency 11 in the State Assembly. In this interview, he explains the need for the tenancy law while also charging prospective tenants who are victims of the excesses of landlords in the state to take advantage of the law by petitioning the government for prompt action.

The age long conflict between landlords and tenants causing a frosty relationship between both parties most probably underscored the enactment of the Lagos State Tenancy Law.

WHAT options do we have to energise the system and restore our people’s confidence in themselves and their beloved country? How long shall we remain insecure, suspicious and frightened of one another? How long shall we remain hungry, sick, without shelter, with hope slipping by? I want to seek answers to these issues by making five key points.

THE 2012 Budget will continue to stir controversy especially on some of the familiar contradictions budgets throw up every year.

THE Judicial Commission of Enquiry on Lands, led by its Chairman, Hon. Justice Abiodun Akinyemi, Monday, presented its final report. Among other things, the Commission recommended outright cancellation and recovery of lands, recovery of monies from companies and individuals as well as baring those involved from public office.