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Nigeria: against oil industry impunity

Paul Martial — 2025-05-03T22:22:33Z

The Niger Delta has been totally devastated by decades of oil exploitation in Nigeria by the major Western oil companies. Huge tracts of land and mangrove swamps have been totally contaminated by oil, destroying all living things. People's livelihoods, such as fishing and farming, have been wiped out. There is no longer any drinking water, and the air is polluted by the dozens of flares that burn continuously.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Nigeria

Cost of living crisis sparks nationwide protest in Nigeria

Baba Aye — 2024-08-24T16:12:10Z

Since 1 August, tens of thousands of people have trooped out onto the streets across Nigeria in nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests against hardship and hunger. This phase of the protest movement is expected to last until 10 August. Demonstrations have been held in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and in 29 of the 26 states of the federation. In all eight states where there were no protests on the streets, residents joined the nationwide protest by sitting at home, as was the case in Enugu.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Nigeria

Social mobilization in Nigeria

Paul Martial — 2024-06-13T16:39:55Z

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.

- IV593 - June 2024 / Nigeria

Election in Nigeria: between disenchantment and hope

Paul Martial — 2023-03-16T21:03:00Z

“The opposition is denouncing massive fraud in a particularly chaotic election. But also hope, because millions of young people have seized on Peter Obi's candidacy to express their desire for change.”

- IV578 - March 2023 / Nigeria

COVID & the Global South: the Nigerian Case

Emilia Micunovic — 2022-07-03T09:54:10Z

Emilia Micunovic interviewed 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

- IV570 - July 2022 / Nigeria, Public services , Covid-19 Pandemic

Nigeria: #EndSARS, Workers' Power, and War

Kunle Wizeman Ajayi — 2021-12-24T11:18:03Z

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, the rebellion was the most democratic movement in the history of Nigeria.

- Features / Nigeria

Mobilizations against the established order in Angola and Nigeria

Jean Nanga — 2020-12-26T09:53:59Z

In October 2020, starting on the sixtieth anniversary of its independence (1 October 1960), Nigeria experienced almost two weeks of mobilization of the movement against police violence, #EndSARS, made up mostly of young people. While in Angola, after a demonstration against corruption in October, on the very day of the 45th anniversary of independence (11 November 2020), young people took to the streets, demonstrating once again their anger over their social relegation. These mobilizations (…)

- IV551 - December 2020 / Nigeria, Angola

#EndSARS rebellion, repression & resistance in Nigeria

Baba Aye — 2020-12-24T11:30:07Z

Scores of thousands of young people took over dozens of cities and towns in Nigeria for two weeks. This rebellion, with the slogan and hashtag #EndSARS, was sparked by the reported killing of a young man by the special anti-robbery squad (SARS), in Ughelli, a town in the Niger delta region on 3 October.
With each passing day, the supposedly “leaderless” movement waxed stronger. And while #EndSARS remained the primary and binding demand, calls for more radical measures to #EndInjustice (…)

- IV551 - December 2020 / Nigeria

Spontaneous uprising in Nigeria

Klaus Engert — 2020-11-16T06:37:00Z

“The rage broke its way through.”

- IV550 - November 2020 / Nigeria

BLM stands with #EndSARS movement in Nigeria

Malik Miah — 2020-11-02T08:45:42Z

BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM) leaders from many U.S. organizations and alliances have expressed strong support for Nigerian students and working people in their #EndSARS protests against state violence.

- IV550 - November 2020 / United States (USA), Nigeria, Anti-racism and Islamophobia