Endsars
latest news & developmentsSouth Africa ranks 118 out of 163 in the 2022 Global Peace Index
It is a marginal improvement, according to the study, but while the country is progressively more peaceful, it is tarnished with violent outbreaks of crime and protests
Twitter back in Nigeria after seven-month blackout
The ban shocked many in Nigeria, where Twitter has had a major role in political discourse, with the hashtags #BringBackOurGirls after Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls…
Freeing Nigeria’s unjustly imprisoned
Too many Nigerians are stuck in prison for longer than allowed by law – sometimes for crimes they did not commit
How youth can reshape political participation in Nigeria
Can Nigeria’s #EndSars protests restructure electoral politics? Or will they simply become a dramatic, but ineffective interlude, to the status quo?
Bitcoin: Nigeria bites back against cryptocurrency trading
On 5 February Nigeria’s central bank banned crypto transactions, but industry analysts are confident the sector will find a workaround.
Nollywood’s political struggle
How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the #EndSARS protests?
Nigeria’s women on the front line
They led the October 72-hour demonstration against a brutal police squad, following the examples that date back to the 1910 Women’s War
Nigeria’s queers say ‘enough’
Notorious police unit that harassed LGBTQ+ community disbanded after widespread protests.
Facebook, Instagram indiscriminately flag #EndSars posts as fake news
Fact-checking is appropriate but the platforms’ scattershot approach has resulted in genuine information and messages about Nigerians’ protest against police brutality being…
Editorial: A failure of leadership in Nigeria
For as long as there has been an independent Nigeria, its government has been killing its people.
Unite with Nigeria’s ‘Speak Up’ generation protesting against police brutality
Photos of citizens draped in the bloodied flag have spread around the world in the month the country should be celebrating 60 years of independence
The Nigerian government is killing its citizens — again
‘Nigeria kills its people. Nigeria has always killed its people.’