Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by MARTIAL Paul
Pressured by a massive general strike, the Nigerian government is forced to negotiate. Perhaps this is the first step towards questioning a destructive liberal policy.
Bola Tinubu. Wikimedia commons / Nosa Asemota / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
A year after being elected, (…)
, by JUWON Sanyaolu
Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.
Over the past weeks, Nigerians have trooped out to the streets, protesting the unprecedented level of hunger and hardship in the country. In places like Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, and Osun, protesters were heard (…)
, by HOUELAND Camilla
A few days after Nigeria’s presidential elections, with a disputed winner declared, here are some initial conclusions and prospects.
On Monday, March 1st, Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of one of Nigeria’s two big political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC), was declared (…)
, by MICUNOVIC Emilia
EMILIA MICUNOVIC INTER-VIEWED Rafiat Atanda and Zigwai Tagwai, who volunteer with ONE in Nigeria. They are professional women in their 20s. This article has been edited from a longer version. The editors, Against the Current
THIS MARCH MARKED the second anniversary of the World Health (…)
, by Kunle Wizeman Ajayi
In October 2020, millions in Nigeria marched for two weeks in a revolt that shook the world. From Badagry to Yola, youth and workers rose in unity against the barbarism of police brutality and bad governance. Raising radical slogans and social media hashtags, and mobilizing spontaneous rallies, (…)
, by BASSEY Nnimmo, ROAPE
In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins represent decades of community organizing on the part of Niger Delta activists and residents. ROAPE’s Lee Wengraf interviews the environmental activist, Nnimmo Bassey, (…)
, by HOUELAND Camilla
The weakening of Nigeria’s oil trade unions has a devastating impact on workers. Now workers are paid by Shell and others to sabotage union strikes and actions.
In January 2020, I was speaking to a group of so-called “artisanal refiners” in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. “Yes, we are in the oil,” (…)
, by Anonymous
A survivor warns against the harmful practices many are forced to undergo to try to change their sexuality or gender identity
When I was nine, my parents took me to a traditional healer. He used a razor to make three incisions on the insteps of my feet, my wrists, my elbows, my forehead and (…)
, by GBADAMOSI Nosmot
Despite criticism from rights groups, families of young rape victims in Kaduna state say they support the new law.
Content warning: This story contains graphic details of abuse that some readers may find disturbing. Names marked with asterisks have been changed to protect the identity of the (…)
, by HUSAINI Sa’eed, JACOBS Sean, SHOKI William
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 (…)
, by SULE Mariam
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 (…)
, by ALESHINLOYE Kasope, BOTTA Emma Wilde
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 (…)
, by MIAH Malik
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 (…)
, by AKINWOTU Emmanuel
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. (…)
, by BURKE Jason
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 (…)
, by OLALOKU-TERIBA Annie
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 (…)
, by ADETAYO Ope
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 (…)
, by DJAZAIROUNA, GREFELS, One Law for All, SACW, SIAWI, VILAF, WICUR
• 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 (…)
, by AKINWOTU Emmanuel
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 (…)
, by CURTIS Mark
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 (…)
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