{"id":41557,"date":"2024-08-01T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41557"},"modified":"2024-08-01T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:00:52","slug":"pandemonium-erupts-as-police-shoot-peaceful-protester-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/01\/pandemonium-erupts-as-police-shoot-peaceful-protester-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemonium Erupts as Police Shoot Peaceful Protester in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is serious pandemonium at Nyanya checkpoint bus stop, Abuja as a heated crisis erupted between violent protesters and the Nigerian police.<\/p>\n<p>What initially seemed to be a peaceful protest by Nigerians venting their grievances against the hardships of the Tinubu-led government took a violent turn when police officers tear-gassed and shot one of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated as protesters burned down the police post, looted shops, dispossessed commuters of their belongings, and set tires on fire on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>In a display of solidarity, motorcyclists, commonly known as &#8216;Okada men,&#8217; were seen carrying palm fronds around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41558\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-01-at-15.56.48_750a3ac2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-01-at-15.56.48_750a3ac2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-01-at-15.56.48_750a3ac2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-01-at-15.56.48_750a3ac2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-08-01-at-15.56.48_750a3ac2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is serious pandemonium at Nyanya checkpoint bus stop, Abuja as a heated crisis erupted between violent protesters and the Nigerian police. What initially seemed to be a peaceful protest by Nigerians venting their grievances against the hardships of the Tinubu-led government took a violent turn when police officers tear-gassed and shot one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":41559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-41557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41557","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41560,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41557\/revisions\/41560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}