{"id":41562,"date":"2024-08-01T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41562"},"modified":"2024-08-01T18:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:31:01","slug":"photos-protesters-besiege-federal-secretariat-eagles-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/01\/photos-protesters-besiege-federal-secretariat-eagles-square\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Protesters Besiege Federal Secretariat, Eagles Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gbenga Adeniyi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On August 1, a significant demonstration unfolded at the Federal Secretariat and Eagles Square in Abuja as thousands of protesters gathered to voice their discontent with the current state of governance. The protest, branded as the &#8220;EndBandGovernance&#8221; rally, saw participants brandishing a variety of placards with messages demanding accountability and reform from the government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41563\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0047-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0047-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0047-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0047-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0047-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, 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height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0023-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0023-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0023-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41577\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0015-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0015.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41578\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0014-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240801-WA0014.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere was charged with energy as citizens from all walks of life came together, united by a common goal of urging policymakers to address perceived failures and inefficiencies in governance. The placards carried by the protesters conveyed messages of frustration and hope for a more transparent and responsive administration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gbenga Adeniyi &nbsp; On August 1, a significant demonstration unfolded at the Federal Secretariat and Eagles Square in Abuja as thousands of protesters gathered to voice their discontent with the current state of governance. The protest, branded as the &#8220;EndBandGovernance&#8221; rally, saw participants brandishing a variety of placards with messages demanding accountability and reform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-41562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41562","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41579,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41562\/revisions\/41579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}