First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua has joined the call for the independence of Western Sahara from occupation by Morocco, stressing that colonialism ought to have been totally abolished from the African continent.

Federal Government has condemned human rights violations unleashed on workers of Western Sahara, stating that it would co-opt the Nigerian Labour Congress leadership to tackle some of the problems in the region.

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and an elder statesman, Alhaji Maitama Sule, in Abuja on Thursday, called on the international community to support the liberation of the Western Sahara, stressing that the gross violation of human rights in the Western Sahara