Endsarsbrutality

For regular Nigerians, the 8th of October, 2020 was to be a normal business day. This was not the case for Nigerian youths who have been unsuitably tagged the ‘lazy’, ‘phone pressing generation’ for the longest time. Their ace was revealed when Runtown and Falz ‘the bad guy’ announced on…

Photo by Samson Maxwell from Unsplash There are so many unreal things in this world. By unreal, I mean things we don’t believe in. I grew up hearing many unreal things until these things happened to me. I’ve heard things like the police assaulting civilians and people protesting and getting…

The spark that ignited the solidarity of the Nigerian voices in continents across the globe, came from a heated car chase by a citizen who had just witnessed the death of a young man at Wetland Hotel Ugheli, allegedly at the hands of the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS). …

As I lay bleeding out on the ground, I was protesting peacefully at the Lekki tollgate and the Nigerian Military opened fire on unarmed citizens. The date is 20th October 2020 and these are my last words; Tell my mother I was unarmed Tell my father I had the flag…

Here we are after we’ve dropped the placards and cardboards. Here we are left with cracked voices and broken bones and bruised skins. Here we are nursing bullet wounds, counting and mourning our fallen heroes. But as we count our losses, we still point to our wins. We know that…

I hate this feeling. I hate what I see every day. I hate that we keep going round and round in circles — a seemly vicious circles. Nigeria when will this end??? Just about a week ago, Nigeria celebrated her independence. …