TIB ANNUAL REPORT (JANUARY–DECEMBER 2025)

The year 2025 was marked by intensified resistance against misgovernance, powerful interventions in human rights crises, strengthened grassroots mobilization, and coordinated national and international advocacy.

The movement recorded significant gains in its defense of civil liberties, despite escalating state repression, widespread insecurity, and the weaponization of legal frameworks against activists and ordinary citizens.

1. Overview

Throughout the year, TIB deepened its role as one of Nigeria’s most consistent sociopolitical movements, expanding from protest-driven organizing into a broad platform for advocacy, political education, and community intervention. The movement’s activities centered on defending constitutional rights, exposing corruption, resisting authoritarianism, and empowering citizens to participate meaningfully in governance.

2. Key Activities (January–December 2025)

Across all 12 months, TIB conducted and led hundreds of interventions, including:

A. Human Rights Campaigns

• Securing the release of activists, students, and citizens detained under repressive circumstances.
• Challenging extrajudicial killings, torture, forced evictions, and digital repression under the Cybercrime Act.
• Intervening in high-profile cases of police extortion, sexual abuse cover-ups, unlawful detentions, and mob violence.

B. Mass Mobilization

• Organizing nationwide protests demanding an end to misgovernance, insecurity, police brutality, and the misuse of state power.
• Leading the June 12 National Day of Protest across multiple states.
• Mobilizing resistance against demolitions in Lagos, illegal arrests in universities, and digital crackdown on free speech.

C. Community & Grassroots Work

• Advocacy for displaced persons, victims of disasters, and communities facing insecurity.
• Youth and student organizing, meetups, town-hall sessions, and digital political education programs.
• International solidarity campaigns with struggles in Kenya, Serbia, and Rwanda.

D. Legal Interventions

• Multiple court actions, petitions, and successful bail applications.
• Direct engagement with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
• Advocacy that led to disciplinary actions against rogue police divisions and disbandment of abusive tactical squads.

E. Institutional Accountability

• Public condemnation of state violence, forced evictions, police torture centers (including the launch of the Tiger Base Must Fall report).
• Engagements demanding reforms in healthcare, labor rights, student welfare, and digital freedoms.

1. Key Achievements

• Secured the release of numerous unlawfully detained individuals nationwide.
• Forced removal of corrupt police officers and disbandment of abusive police squads.
• Organized four major nationwide protests and several state-based mass actions.
• Successfully repatriated and rehabilitated five trafficked Nigerian women from Libya.
• Recovered extorted funds for victims and halted unlawful practices through civic pressure.
• Produced landmark human rights reports, including “State of Human Rights in Nigeria” and the “Tiger Base” torture facility investigation.
• Strengthened Pan-African alliances and elevated TIB’s voice internationally.

1. Major Challenges

• Heightened state repression, including arrests, invasions, and violent crackdowns.
• Rapidly worsening national insecurity, mass abductions, and community violence.
• Misuse of laws—especially the Cybercrime Act—to suppress dissent.
• Limited resources and financial constraints.
• Growing hostility toward student activism and civic organizing in universities.

1. Strategic Recommendations

• Expand the Legal Aid Committee and adopt a rapid-response legal system.
• Increase civic education programs for youth, students, and marginalized communities.
• Intensify policy advocacy, particularly for reform of the Cybercrime Act and policing systems.
• Introduce internal safety protocols and monitoring mechanisms for protests and community actions.
• Strengthen Pan-African solidarity networks and collaborations with global human rights bodies.
• Develop sustainable internal revenue systems through membership donations and branded merchandise.

Conclusion

The year 2025 reaffirmed TIB’s position as Nigeria’s foremost grassroots sociopolitical movement, fearless, consistent, and unwavering in its defense of justice, accountability, and human dignity. Despite escalating challenges, the movement demonstrated resilience, strategic depth, and organizational maturity.

This report highlights not only the struggles of the year but also the transformative impact of sustained civic action, solidarity, and the collective resolve to take Nigeria back.

Click the link below to access TIB Annual Report (January – December, 2025)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KBv5-Dd6UVH8EbVw07JvrpCKa4271Ijl/view?usp=drivesdk