{"id":41524,"date":"2024-08-01T12:37:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41524"},"modified":"2024-08-01T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T12:37:28","slug":"protesters-block-keffi-abuja-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/01\/protesters-block-keffi-abuja-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters block Keffi-Abuja highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some protesters of the #EndBadGovernnaceinNigeria\u2019 have blocked the Keffi-Abuja highway, preventing motorists from Keffi metropolis from entering.<\/p>\n<p>The protests will run from August 1 to 10, to demand an end to bad governance,\u00a0hunger and high cost of living in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from blocking the highway, the protesters in their hundreds, also set fire on car tyres and threatened to beat up motorists who refused to retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the protesters held placards with the inscriptions such as \u201cEnd bad governance in Nigeria,\u201d \u201cBring back fuel subsidy\u201d among others.<\/p>\n<p>The protest which is ongoing, is taking place on the outskirts of Keffi, with both sides of the highway blocked, with burnt tyres to prevent vehicular movement.<\/p>\n<p>However, security officials have so far been equal to the task, as they had been able to control the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some protesters of the #EndBadGovernnaceinNigeria\u2019 have blocked the Keffi-Abuja highway, preventing motorists from Keffi metropolis from entering. The protests will run from August 1 to 10, to demand an end to bad governance,\u00a0hunger and high cost of living in the country. Aside from blocking the highway, the protesters in their hundreds, also set fire on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":41526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41524","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\/41524","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41527,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41524\/revisions\/41527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}