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24/10/2025
What Happened to the Generation? ⚡️
October 2020 started with a hashtag and ended with a massacre that changed everything. What began as protests against SARS, a police unit meant to fight armed robbery but notorious for extorting, torturing, and killing young Nigerians, exploded into a nationwide movement demanding good governance and accountability. For two weeks, thousands of Nigerians rallied across the country, believing that change was finally within reach. Then came 20 October, and the state's brutal response transformed migration from an option for a better life into what many saw as a necessity for survival. The generation wasn't just protesting police brutality, they were releasing decades of pent-up anger, dissatisfaction, and hunger for a society that actually works. Now, five years later, this story traces what happened to that generation: where they went, what dreams survived the gunfire, and how the aftershocks continue to ripple through Nigeria's economic and social fabric.
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20/10/2025
Five years later, the memories of burn and linger. We marched, we mourned, we remember. The hope, the fear, the questions unanswered. From October 20—24, 2025, The Republic revisits the movement that inspired and challenged a generation.
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