The Nigerian hit film tackles social issues through an action plot.
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High action and outspoken politics meet digital-first thinking and a global hit is made.
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Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
Young Nigerians holding up a banner at the 1-year memorial of the Lekki shootings.
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Young people’s use of technology such as Twitter shows that they are interested in politics and governance and have found a way to participate.
It has been one year since massive #EndSARS protests swept over Nigeria.
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One year after the #EndSARS protests, not much has come out of the investigations into the shootings and deaths that occurred across the country.
A police officer in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 3.
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The story of Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement shows just how durable law enforcement institutions are – and why the road to reform goes straight uphill.
Protesters at Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State during a peaceful demonstration against police brutality in Nigeria.
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There is a need for a special unit for civil-military relations as the police cannot deal effectively with protests.
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For young Nigerian protesters on social media and on the streets, #ENDSARS is as much an expression of a will to modernity as it is a yearning to be treated with dignity.
Soldiers patrol the Nigerian city of Jos, in the central Plateu State, in a bid to quell religious violence.
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In Nigeria, the government often uses the army to restore order and to keep the peace, largely because the police are unable to contain internal violent conflicts.