Category: Group Activities
This research report, NIGERIA: SHRINKING CIVIC SPACE IN THE NAME OF SECURITY, is the third and final part of the Security Playbook Series conducted by 11 members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS). The Security Playbook is a research project that aims to interrogate the use and misuse of the security architecture […]
On December 8, 2021, the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) launched two reports – Security Playbook of Digital Authoritarianism and Harms from Abroad: Impact of Global Security Measures on Civic Space in Nigeria from its latest collective action research titled The Security Playbook. The event cum media briefing drew the attendance of […]
This report builds evidence of a Security Playbook of Digital Authoritarianism by showing how the massive financial resources, equipment, and technologies originally procured in the name of counterterrorism and curbing insecurity have been diverted to monitor the movement of citizens, to track activities of civic actors online, intercept private communications, restrict online civic space, and limit the ability of […]
What evidence is there of the role of transnational security architecture (such as the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy; Financial Action Task Force; UN Security Council Resolutions and others) in facilitating restrictions on civic space in Nigeria? What links exist between transnational and domestic entities promoting and implementing a hard security paradigm and measures? What regional […]
How do the transnational security architecture and the use of “the security playbook” manifest in key national contexts? What evidence is there of the role of transnational security architecture (such as the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy; Financial Action Task Force; UN Security Council Resolutions and others) in facilitating restrictions on civic space in Nigeria? What […]
This report builds evidence of a Security Playbook of Digital Authoritarianism by showing how the massive financial resources, equipment, and technologies originally procured in the name of counterterrorism and curbing insecurity have been diverted to monitor the movement of citizens, to track activities of civic actors online, intercept private communications, restrict online civic space, and limit the ability […]
At a string of symposia held on October 20, 2021, across five states in Nigeria namely; Lagos, Rivers, Abia, Enugu states, and the FCT Abuja, members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) gathered to commemorate the first anniversary of the #ENDSARS2020 protests against police brutality in Nigeria. At the meetings hosted by […]
BACKGROUND The press briefing and one-year ENDSARS2020 memorial anniversary symposium organised by members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) in Enugu State was scheduled to hold on October 20, 2021. The date perfectly tallied with the proposed plans of the AGFCS to replicate the same event in four other states in Nigeria […]
#ENDSARS PROTESTS 2020: ONE YEAR AFTER October 20, 2021 The Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) once again condemns in very strong terms the brutal attacks launched on thousands of unarmed young protestors demonstrating against police brutality during the October 2020 #ENDSARS protests, particularly at the Lekki Tollgate Plaza in Lagos on the dreadful […]
After three (3) months of intensive study and data collection under the AGFCS’ joint action research, The Security Playbook, 13 participating member-organizations, converged again on September 23 to present their preliminary findings to a rich pool of civic space experts, security experts, research consultants, media practitioners, representatives from local and international non-governmental organizations at […]