Police officers’ assessment of NPF reforms: evidence from an area command in Ondo state

Ayoyo, Damilohun D.

doi:10.1080/15614263.2018.1525379

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“…Some of the problems are; corruption, brutality, poor relationships with communities which sometimes leads to more abuse, poor recruitment practices (this includes inadequate training for new recruits), poor working conditions for the NPF, inadequate welfare package etc. (Ayoyo, 2018; Chinwokwu, 2016; Ojo, 2014). Typically, these are big problems that can hinder the effective performance of the NPF.…”

Section: Police Brutality In World's Most Populous Black Nationmentioning

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Nigeria's #EndSARS movement and its implication on online protests in Africa's most populous country

Dambo

Ersoy

Auwal

et al. 2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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Modern tools of connectivity have afforded disadvantaged youth across the globe the opportunity to collectively share and curate challenges and build up strategies to protest marginalization. This argument is however sharply divided between tech‐optimists, who argue that social media remove all forms of barrier and empower average members of society and tech‐pessimists who argue that social media discourage people from actively seeking change. This article wades into this discourse by looking at the claims of police abuse by Nigerian youth on social media. For decades, police abuse of powers has remained a subject of interest in academic and human rights circles. This interest has perhaps been amplified by online social movements. In Nigeria, this abuse is well documented in the #EndSARS campaign, which has lasted for three years with little success. In disparity to most academic studies that investigate success of online movement, this study critically inspects the limitation of the #EndSARS campaign by assessing how Nigeria's political environment can serve as a possible hindrance to successful movements. This research therefore answers two questions: What are the dominant themes in Nigeria's #EndSARS campaign? What are the limitations to activism in Nigeria?

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Section: Police Brutality In World's Most Populous Black Nationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nigeria's #EndSARS movement and its implication on online protests in Africa's most populous country

Dambo

Ersoy

Auwal

et al. 2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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I Will Kill You and Nothing Will Happen: Extra-Judicial Killings in Nigeria and Public Interest Litigation

Odunaike

Lalude

Odusanya³

2021

Białostockie Studia Prawnicze

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Public interest litigation is a mechanism of intervention in a matter that concerns the public. It could be about human rights, government policy, or some other issue that could present a challenge to public life. Public interest litigation is important because it presents hope to the powerless and offers justice where there might not previously have been the opportunity. The aim of public interest litigation is to recognise injustice and give a voice to the concerns of members of society who might not have the means to articulate them. In Nigeria there is a high tendency for people of low socioeconomic status to experience police brutality, or even become victims of extra-judicial killing. In this article, it was argued that although public interest litigation is a good strategy to engage the injustice of extra-judicial killings, the recurrence shows that the solution lies more in addressing a systemic problem.

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Police officers’ assessment of NPF reforms: evidence from an area command in Ondo state

Cited by 2 publications

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Nigeria's #EndSARS movement and its implication on online protests in Africa's most populous country

Nigeria's #EndSARS movement and its implication on online protests in Africa's most populous country

I Will Kill You and Nothing Will Happen: Extra-Judicial Killings in Nigeria and Public Interest Litigation

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