Category: Group Activities

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 […]

  Under the banner of another collective action research, titled, The Security Playbook, 13 members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) converged in Lagos on July 1 to kick off the collaborative study on the rising misuse of digital technologies, counter-terrorism and national security laws to restrict the civic space in Nigeria. Amid the Twitter ban, […]

Determined to continue pushing for justice for several victims of police brutality especially the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), members of the Action Group on Free Civic Space (AGFCS) embarked on high-level multi-stakeholder engagements with public and private institutions where they demanded enhanced implementation of the findings and recommendations in its latest research report, #ENDSARS: […]