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Citizens Voices Initiative For Civic Knowledge

Civic Pulse Nigeria

Quarterly civic space report

Q1 2021

January to March 2021

Complete quarter. Generated 19 Sept 2026.

Published records
2
Change on Q4 2020
+2
States named
1
Reporting organisations
2

2 civic space records were published for January to March 2021. Arrests and Detention was the most frequently recorded category. 1 of these came from reports written at national level that name no state.

Records by category

  • Arrests & Detention1
  • Resource Access1
  • Citizen Engagement0
  • Government Discourse0
  • Legal & Regulatory0
  • Harassment0

Where records were located

  • Lagos1

Plus 1 national-level record naming no state.

Who reported these incidents

Rights monitors
0
News outlets
2
Official and court records
0
  • AllAfrica1
  • CNN1

The records

  1. 13 Feb 2021·Lagos·CPN-0100

    Nigerian police arrest protesters at Lekki shooting site

    Police arrested protesters gathered at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, the site where security forces opened fire on #EndSARS demonstrators in October 2020.

  2. 11 Feb 2021·National·CPN-0101

    CBN freezing of accounts constitutes gross infringement of fundamental right, Falana says

    Senior Advocate Femi Falana said the Central Bank of Nigeria's freezing of the bank accounts of #EndSARS campaigners was a gross infringement of their fundamental right to fair hearing. On the CBN's application in November 2020, the Federal High Court had ordered the accounts of 20 campaigners frozen for 90 days while the bank investigated them for money laundering and terrorism.

How this report was compiled

Every record in this report is compiled by hand from reports published by named rights monitors, news outlets and official bodies, and links to the source it draws on. Each record is dated to the incident where its source gives that date, and otherwise to the date the source was published. The figures show what has been recorded, not the full extent of what has happened: incidents that were never reported do not appear, and a state with few records is not necessarily a state where little took place.

Civic Pulse Nigeria · an initiative of Citizens Voices Initiative For Civic Knowledge (CVICK)Q1 2021 report