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Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
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.
One year after the #EndSARS protests, not much has come out of the investigations into the shootings and deaths that occurred across the country.
The story of Nigeria’s #EndSARS movement shows just how durable law enforcement institutions are – and why the road to reform goes straight uphill.
There is a need for a special unit for civil-military relations as the police cannot deal effectively with protests.
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.
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.
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