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    Frustrated young Nigerians mobilise for change

    Oct 24, 2020 3 minutes
    ADEJUWON SOYINKA

    FOLLOWING weeks of nationwide protests against police brutality, led by young Nigerians who complain of being targeted by the police, I asked Oludayo Tade, a sociologist, to help us understand what it feels like being a young Nigerian living in the country today.

    Why have the protests been driven by young Nigerians?

    The immediate trigger of the protest has to do with the brutalisation of young Nigerians by the trigger happy and extortionist Special Anti-Robbery Squad, now disbanded.

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