{"id":50388,"date":"2024-10-01T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=50388"},"modified":"2024-10-01T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:55:08","slug":"security-agents-occupy-eagle-square-amid-october-1-protest-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/01\/security-agents-occupy-eagle-square-amid-october-1-protest-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Agents Occupy Eagle Square Amid October 1 Protest Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security agents have taken control of Eagle Square in Abuja, setting up multiple roadblocks on roads leading to the venue on Tuesday. The heavy deployment has made it difficult for commuters and journalists to access the area.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent observed a significant presence of security personnel both inside and outside the facility. This development comes as protest organizers had previously expressed interest in using Eagle Square.<\/p>\n<p>The security deployment appears to be an effort to prevent protesters from accessing the venue, even though it was not in use for the Independence Day celebration. During a protest held between August 1 and 10, security forces similarly resisted attempts by demonstrators to use the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security agents have taken control of Eagle Square in Abuja, setting up multiple roadblocks on roads leading to the venue on Tuesday. The heavy deployment has made it difficult for commuters and journalists to access the area. Our correspondent observed a significant presence of security personnel both inside and outside the facility. This development comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50388","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=50388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50434,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50388\/revisions\/50434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}