{"id":32724,"date":"2024-05-27T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=32724"},"modified":"2024-05-27T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T18:49:12","slug":"breaking-military-reopens-banex-plaza-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/27\/breaking-military-reopens-banex-plaza-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Military Reopens Banex Plaza in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian military has reopened Banex Plaza in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja after over a week-long closure. The popular market resumed operations around 2:30 PM on Monday, according to reports from Daily Trust.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plaza had been sealed off by military authorities on May 18 following a violent clash between traders and military personnel. The conflict began when thugs allegedly attacked some soldiers who had a disagreement with a trader over the sale of a defective phone. The soldiers were reportedly called in by a customer dissatisfied with the phone he had purchased.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite police efforts to resolve the situation, soldiers later stormed the plaza, prompting an immediate shutdown by traders. The military&#8217;s actions were widely condemned by human rights activists, including Femi Falana, SAN, and various civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reopening of Banex Plaza marks the end of the tension that had disrupted business activities and drawn significant public criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian military has reopened Banex Plaza in the Wuse 2 area of Abuja after over a week-long closure. The popular market resumed operations around 2:30 PM on Monday, according to reports from Daily Trust. &nbsp; The plaza had been sealed off by military authorities on May 18 following a violent clash between traders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32726,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32724\/revisions\/32726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}