Category: Group Activities

The annual retreat of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS), held on March 21 and 22, heralded the third year of the Security Playbook Project supported by the Fund for Global Human Rights.  The retreat marked the end of the 2022 project year during which 18 organizations implemented 42 activities and projects aimed at countering the security-related […]

Members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) in the north-central region of Nigeria converged at a one-day CSO-funders roundtable held on March 24 to discuss the need for increased donor support for initiatives and coalitions working at the intersection of security and the civic space in Nigeria.  Spaces for Change | S4C […]

Twenty-eight months after the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria against police brutality, civil society organizations and movements around the world are still drawing important lessons for supporting activism and peaceful assemblies on digital spaces. Spaces for Change|S4C shared some of these lessons at a recent webinar hosted by the European Centre for Non-profit Law (ECNL) in […]

In commemoration of the 2023 World Data Privacy Day, members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space comprising Spaces for Change |S4C, Accountability Lab Nigeria, and Dataphyte organized a Twitter Spaces conversation: How Safe is your Data?” which brought over 100 digital rights activists and netizens in Nigeria and beyond. The Twitter Space conversation […]

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. […]

The mind-blowing evidence of the misuse of security architecture to shrink the civic space in Nigeria uncovered in the three Security Playbook studies by the Action Group on Free Civic Space has continued to make headlines across the country and beyond. To sustain this momentum, members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) […]

After 179 days of incarceration, a Federal High Court in Calabar has dismissed the terrorism, treasonable felony, and cybercrime charges against Agba Jalingo. For three years, Agba Jalingo, the publisher of an online newspaper, CrossRiverWatch has been a victim of the draconian measures targeted at civil society actors and the intolerance of state actors in […]

Memorandum Submitted at the Public Hearing on the bill to amend CAMA 2020 to the Senate Committee on Trade and Investments and Diaspora and NGOs, MARCH 2022.   Download the Memorandum here:

The Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) has launched the third and final part of its Security Playbook Series which is centered on examining the over application or abuse of security infrastructure to crack down on civic actors in Nigeria. The AGFCS is a coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) at the forefront of challenging […]

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 […]

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 […]