{"id":40929,"date":"2024-07-29T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=40929"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:13:35","slug":"soldiers-take-over-major-abuja-road-72-hours-to-hunger-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/29\/soldiers-take-over-major-abuja-road-72-hours-to-hunger-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers \u2018Take Over\u2019 Major Abuja Road 72 Hours To Hunger Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters plying the Keffi-Abuja expressway were on Monday left stranded after military officers barricaded the highway to conduct a stop-and-search operation on vehicles entering the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers mounted a road block at Sani Abacha barracks before the popular AYA roundabout.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies did not give any prior warning before to the blockade that has caused a gridlock extending as far as Nyanya Bridge, more than 12 kilometres from the checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Civil servants and traders who work in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) live outside the city centre in places such as Nyanya, Karu, Maraba and Masaka.<\/p>\n<p>After hours of standstill, many of them were forced to return home.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming three days to the planned nationwide protest over the current economic hardship in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Some youths are planning a nationwide protest from August 1 against the rising cost of living and economic hardship in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commuters plying the Keffi-Abuja expressway were on Monday left stranded after military officers barricaded the highway to conduct a stop-and-search operation on vehicles entering the nation\u2019s capital. The soldiers mounted a road block at Sani Abacha barracks before the popular AYA roundabout. Security agencies did not give any prior warning before to the blockade that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40932,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40929\/revisions\/40932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}