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The #EndSARS movement has convulsed Nigeria for weeks, demanding an end to police brutality. But the protesters have something else in their crosshairs: the unequal, austerity-ridden status quo and the political class that defends it.
In October, protests erupted in Nigeria calling for the (...)
Different activist communities came together to create one of the greatest social movements in Nigeria’s history.
When Adaeze Feyisayo, 24, joined the protests against police brutality in Nigeria on Friday, October 3, she had just returned from a trip to the southeastern city of Aba, where she (...)
A movement against police brutality has swept across Nigeria. Mass protests have brought out tens of thousands of people in cities across the country. At the center of the fury is SARS, a notoriously brutal special unit of the police. On October 11, the Nigerian Police Force announced it was (...)
Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders from many organisations and alliances in the United States have expressed strong support for Nigerian students and working people in their #EndSARS protests against state violence.
More than 69 civilians were shot dead on October 20–21. Twelve people were killed (...)
Crackdown as rallies against police brutality continue in defiance of government curfew
Nigerian security forces have opened fire on hundreds of protesters in Lagos, as rallies against police brutality continued in defiance of a 24-hour curfew imposed by the government earlier in the day. (...)
Police violence prompted latest protests but anger at the government is growing
The signs held up by protesters have been clear. “We have no leaders,” said one. “The power of the youth is stronger than you that is in power,” ran another. A third read: “Nigeria bleeds.”
This last statement has been (...)
SARS’s abuse reflects the moral bankruptcy of the system the corrupt Nigerian ruling elite has put in place.
Those in Nigeria’s halls of power must have been flummoxed when protests erupted in response to Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu’s October 11 announcement that the Special (...)
An unorthodox union and an unregulated transport system leave many Nigerian bus drivers vulnerable to poverty and abuse.
Lagos, Nigeria – It is 7pm on a Wednesday in late September. Afeez* has just left a bus park at Iyana Isolo, a small busy road near the popular Ojuwoye street market in the (...)
• Statement on death penalty pronounced in blasphemy cases in the State of Kano, Nigeria
• In support of Nigerian civil society initiatives against death penalty and blasphemy laws
Over spring and summer 2020, three cases drew attention to the blasphemy law under which religious courts (...)
Closure of Nigeria’s schools during lockdown has hit access to learning for poorer children
Like millions of other children in the sprawling Nigerian city of Lagos, 15-year-old Sharifa Umar switched from classroom learning to lessons over radio, TV and the internet when schools were closed in (...)
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Biafran war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the late 1960s, declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s government secretly armed and backed Nigeria’s aggression against the secessionist region.
The then Labour government secretly (...)
All 47 men deny offence of same-sex displays of affection, which carries 10-year jail term
Forty-seven men went on trial in Nigeria on Wednesday for public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term in the country.
The men were among 57 (...)
Organised labour unions on Thursday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to help resolve the dispute over the N30,000 new minimum wage.
The union and the federal government again failed to reach an agreement over the payment of the new minimum wage at a meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
However, (...)
Edwin Madunagu argues that Nigeria needs a people’s manifesto that would borrow from the political left’s thinking and be a representative of the people’s really demands.
In a previous article on this subject (21 February 2018), I proposed that a Nigerian people’s manifesto at this particular (...)
Nigeria is experiencing a major conflict between nomadic herdsmen and indigenous farmers. In 2016, the conflict led to the death of 2,500 people, displaced 62,000 others and led to loss of US$13.7 billion in revenue. In January 2018 alone, the conflict claimed the lives of 168 people.
The (...)
Interview with Bashiru Obasanjo, Student Union Government (SUG) President, University of Abuja
Despite Nigeria’s rising youth bulge, with the youth making up over 60% of the population, there seems to be a campaign by elderly politicians to brand the youth as incapable of leadership based on (...)
This study discusses the transformation of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) in an era of declining membership. Union membership among factory workers had declined from around 60,000 in 2000 to less than 20,000 in 2016. The decline in membership means a fall in the structural power which had defined the union in terms of its vibrancy and strength in collective bargaining and visibility in the (...)
Trade Unions in Transformation: A Case Study of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria
Ismail Bello
Funke Omoniyi Johnson is the founder of Mama Tee Fashion and Saidat Taiwo Oshodi is the proud owner of Sai Tai Enterprises Nigeria Limited. They are both (...)
The golden era of Nigeria’s civil society featured names such as Wole Soyinka, Alao Aka-Bashorun, Gani Fawehinmi, Beko Ransome-Kuti, Olisa Agbakoba, Femi Falana, Baba Omojola, Comrade Ola Oni, Ayo Obe, Dr. Segun Osoba, Idowu Awopetu, Clement Nwankwo, Frank Kokori, Chidi Odinkalu, Abdul Oroh, (...)
A double relief prevails in Nigeria. The presidential elections of late March, 2015, were conducted without any outbreaks of violence, and the outgoing President, Goodluck Jonathan, was beaten. With a score of 54% of the votes, Muhammadu Buhari won a clear victory, confirmed during the (...)
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