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Nigeria: Two popular protests, thirty-five years apart, same demands, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YusufThe symbolism of many colours as President Tinubu addressed Nigerians, By Babafemi A.
The conditionalities are aimed at rolling back the state in economic and societal development, and enthroning the private sector in the affairs of the state, the economy and society. The conditionalities include privatisation, de-subsidisation, commercialisation of social services, currency devaluation and mass retrenchment.
In 1989, the National Association of Nigerian Students , the arrowhead of the protests, demanded the immediate termination of SAP; the guarantee of full employment to all Nigerians; release of jailed electricity union leaders and labour activists; free education at all levels; increase in education funding, academic freedom, democratisation of the campuses, and termination of military rule.
In 2024, Kano protesters chanted, in Hausa: “Rather than hunger to kill us, let bullets kill us.” Others chanted, “We want military rule.” Yet, others called on Nigerians, irrespective of their differences, to pray that God eliminates all those responsible for hunger, poverty, insecurity, hardship, and bad governance in the country.
But there are some differences. The 1989 Anti-SAP protests was organised by NANS, and led by its ideologically motivated and organisationally disciplined leaders and activists. The NANS Charter of Demands was their ‘scripture’.
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