FCT Governance

(And They Probably Can’t) Prince Charles Dickson Ph.D. Look around. Hear the sirens wail, sometimes close, often far. See the black-and-white patrol vans, sometimes sleek, often battered. We know the police. We fear them, distrust them, sometimes curse them, rarely praise them, and almost never feel they are truly with us. The bitter truth, my people, is this: The Nigerian Police cannot be your friend, even if they desperately wanted to be.

There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded by the demographic cohort globally referred to as Gen Z, short for Generation Z. This group of people, young, vibrant, and dynamic, born between 1997 and 2012, are different in many ways. They are largely defined by their tech-savvy, internet, and smartphone consciousness, having been born during the information technology boom.