Lekki Tollgate

Nigeria has been ruled by generals and gerontocrats and young people want change in the 2023 polls

With 70% of Nigerians aged under 30 this should happen but the top candidates are 70 and 75 and the third will have to work with politicians the youth want out

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

10 min read

Activists protesting police brutality by the Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) demonstrate in Parliament Square in London, England, on October 21, 2020. SARS has been accused of extrajudicial killings, extortion and torture, prompting demonstrations across Nigeria that have seen at least 56 people killed by Nigerian security forces in recent weeks, according to human rights group Amnesty International. The dead include at least 12 at two locations in Lagos – Lekki and Alausa – on Tuesday, it said, among some 38 people killed yesterday across the country as a whole. (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

ENDSARS

23 OCT 2020

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…

Tolu Olasoji, The Continent

3 min read

Nigerian youths seen waving the Nigerian national flag in front of a crowd in support of the ongoing protest against the unjust brutality of The Nigerian Police Force Unit named Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on October 13, 2020. (Photo by Benson Ibeabuchi/AFP via Getty

ENDSARS

23 OCT 2020

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

Idayat Hassan

4 min read