Civic Pulse Nigeria
Quarterly civic space report
Q3 2024
July to September 2024
Complete quarter. Generated 19 Sept 2026.
- Published records
- 8
- Change on Q2 2024
- +5
- States named
- 2
- Reporting organisations
- 6
8 civic space records were published for July to September 2024, against 3 in April to June 2024. Arrests and Detention was the most frequently recorded category. 3 of these came from reports written at national level that name no state.
Records by category
- Arrests & Detention4
- Government Discourse2
- Resource Access1
- Harassment1
- Citizen Engagement0
- Legal & Regulatory0
Where records were located
- Federal Capital Territory4
- Lagos1
Plus 3 national-level records naming no state.
Who reported these incidents
- Rights monitors
- 2
- News outlets
- 6
- Official and court records
- 0
- AllAfrica2
- Human Rights Watch2
- Channels Television1
- P.M. News1
- TheCable1
- Vanguard1
The records
- 9 Sept 2024·Federal Capital Territory·CPN-0062
DSS arrests, detains NLC President Joe Ajaero
DSS operatives arrested Nigeria Labour Congress President Joe Ajaero at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja on 9 September 2024 as he was leaving for a Trades Union Congress event in the United Kingdom, over allegations including terrorism financing, treasonable felony, subversion and cybercrime. He was questioned for hours and released.
- 9 Sept 2024·Federal Capital Territory·CPN-0063
DSS invades SERAP's office
DSS operatives entered the Abuja office of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project on 9 September 2024 and demanded to see its directors, after SERAP called on the President to probe alleged corruption at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company and reverse a petrol price increase. The DSS said the visit was a routine investigation; SERAP called it an unlawful occupation.
- 6 Sept 2024·National·CPN-0064
Nigeria: protesters charged with treason
Human Rights Watch reported that people arrested during the August 2024 #EndBadGovernance protests had been charged with treason, an offence that can carry the death penalty. Amnesty International later found that more than 1,200 people were arrested during and after the protests.
- Human Rights Watch: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/06/nigeria-protesters-charged-treason
- 25 Aug 2024·Lagos·CPN-0065
DSS arrests ex-BBC editor Adejuwon Soyinka at Lagos airport
State security officers detained Adejuwon Soyinka, West Africa regional editor of The Conversation Africa and founding editor of BBC Pidgin, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on 25 August 2024 on his arrival from the United Kingdom. He was released on bail after about six hours and his passport was seized; he was told his name was on another security agency's watchlist.
- 20 Aug 2024·Federal Capital Territory·CPN-0066
Court freezes bank accounts of 32 #EndBadGovernance protesters
On an ex parte application by counsel for the Inspector-General of Police, a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered banks on 20 August 2024 to place post-no-debit restrictions on 32 accounts allegedly linked to #EndBadGovernance protesters, blocking withdrawals while still allowing deposits.
- 5 Aug 2024·Federal Capital Territory·CPN-0067
#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria: police arrest protest leader in Abuja
Police arrested a leader of the #EndBadGovernance protests in Abuja during the August 2024 demonstrations.
- 1 Aug 2024·National·CPN-0068
Nigeria: protest - Police IG talks tough, threatens clampdown on troublemakers
The Inspector-General of Police threatened a clampdown on those he described as troublemakers as the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests began.
- 29 Jul 2024·National·CPN-0069
Nigerian government warnings raise concerns about upcoming protests
HRW raises concern over official warnings issued ahead of planned protests and their chilling effect on the right to peaceful assembly.
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.