THE August 2024 protests created a hysterical atmosphere in Nigeria. The protests have proved the country especially difficult to govern subsequent to her birth defects on October the first 1960. The two sides effect of these August protests are highly visible and concrete; they opened a very significant channel of monitoring the peoples social milieu and they sent unclear and difficult message, hard to understand, before public audience.
The protests were not simply arbitrary outbursts of emotions; hatred, fear and anger were used as strategic plans to further individual and sectional interests. The protests have imaged the Nigerian society as a multicultural nation that evolved from a volatile history of military regimes that forcefully interchanged with civilian governments that have entrenched parallel political structures which remain firmly rooted and influential in our political landscapes. After emerging from authoritarian military regimes through multiparty structures of the second, third and fourth republics, Nigeria have successfully transformed into a fragile democratic architecture that makes decisions that can be protested by dozens of people at any given time.
The supposedly key grounds for the August protests are the followings: (1) to fight the biting effect of the economy on ordinary citizens whose disposable income has been eroded overtime, (2) to raise the question of food inflation that stands at 40 percent in Nigeria (3) to fight the scourge of employmen.