Closing Spaces Incidents Archive
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Nigerian Army Claims NGO Aids Boko Haram and ISWAP,...
Incident Date: 20th September, 2019
The Nigerian Army shut down the offices of a humanitarian aid group Action Against Hunger...
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Army Shuts Down NGO Office in Borno State, Nigeria.
Incident Date: 19th September, 2019
The Nigerian army has shut down the office of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Action Against Hunger,...
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Police Arrests Journalist for Publishing an Investigative Story.
Incident Date: 22nd August, 2019
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police arrested the publisher of CrossRiverWatch, a...
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Police Seal up Symposium Venue to Prevent Meeting From...
Incident Date: 9th August, 2019
”Men of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday stormed and sealed the venue where a...
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Alleged Torture: Rivers Broadcaster Sues Police, Demands N650m Compensation.
Incident Date: 4th June, 2019
“A journalist with the Port Harcourt-based Nigeria Info radio station, Mr Koffi Bartels, has dragged...
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Police Arrest Personnel for Allegedly Insulting President Buhari, Vice-President...
Incident Date: 9th August, 2019
Mr. Sunday U. Japhet, a Mobile Police was arrested by the Yobe State Police Command,...
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Court Grants DSS Permission To Detain Sowore For 45...
Incident Date: 6th August, 2019
“The SSS had on Tuesday 7, 2019, applied for permission to keep Sowore for 90...
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Police, DSS Take Over Civic Media Lab/SaharaReporters Office
Incident Date: 5th August, 2019
“Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Services have taken over the...
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Police attack “RevolutionNow” protesters in Lagos
Incident Date: 5th August, 2019
The “RevolutionNow” protest is a nationwide demonstration against the President Muhammad Buhari-led government that was...
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SSS arrests Nigerian journalist for backing #RevolutionNow
Incident Date: 5th August, 2019
A Nigerian journalist who ventilated about hardship in the country and wrote a Facebook post...
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DSS arrests AAC presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore
Incident Date: 1st August, 2019
The Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 presidential election, Mr....
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Protesters besiege Amnesty International office, demand rights group leave...
Incident Date: 1st August, 2019
Protesters mounted a demonstration outside the Abuja office of Amnesty International demanding the immediate exit...