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Second round of #EndSARS protests hits multiple Nigerian cities

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Nigerian youths protesting against police brutality, extortion, and extrajudicial killings on Monday returned to the streets again in different cities across the country. The second wave of the End SARS protest took place in Lagos, Oyo, Osun, and Abuja, the nation’s capital. Demonstrators, early Monday morning, also returned to Lekki toll gate in Lagos, the …

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Five Lessons from Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests

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On October 8, thousands of young people took to the streets of Lagos to call for the dissolution of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), an infamous police unit accused of extortion, extra-judicial killings, rape, and torture. Since then a lot has transpired in a series of events that would come to be known globally as …

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