A Momentous Week Exposes The Fault Lines

era. Commendably involved in the an -colonial struggle they have unfortunately failed to live up to expecta on in the new reality of the post-colonial state. The painful reality is that 133m people in Nigeria are trapped in mul dimensional poverty. With the devalua on of the Naira this figure now needs to be revised upwards.

The new administra on will soon announce its economic team as well as those in charge of labour and social affairs as well as the social economy. The unions must now change track and be proac ve. They must no longer be reac ve, on the contrary they should set the agenda for social reconstruc on towards achieving shared prosperity in a fairer more socially just society. This is what their coun-