Month: August 2022
Under the auspices of the Ford Foundation-supported Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub), Spaces for Change | S4C, in collaboration with Dataphyte | The Interactive, hosted a two-day Digital Security Clinic for media and digital professionals in Nigeria. The Clinic’s 20 participants were drawn from media organizations, bloggers, influencers, freelancers, and thought leaders from states across […]
Starting from 2016, SPACES FOR CHANGE | S4C has been curating incidents of closing civic space in Nigeria on the Closing Spaces Database: www.closingspaces.org. Beyond tracking and documenting the drivers, perpetrators, victims, tactics, and the flashpoints of shrinking civil society space in the West Africa sub-region, the database groups the incidents tracked into eight distinct legal categories: […]
The Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) strongly condemns the arrest and imprisonment of human rights lawyer, Barr. Inibehe Effiong by the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State. Earlier today, the presiding Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot ordered the immediate detention of Barr. Effiong by armed policemen and committed him to prison for one month. […]
