{"id":73711,"date":"2025-08-20T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73711"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:48:15","slug":"ilaje-women-protest-demolitions-threaten-nude-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/ilaje-women-protest-demolitions-threaten-nude-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilaje Women Protest Demolitions, Threaten Nude March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Women from the Ilaje community in Lagos have threatened to stage nude protests if the state government fails to halt what they describe as the demolition of their ancestral settlements.<\/p>\n<p>Despite heavy rain on Tuesday, hundreds under the Egbe Omo Ilaje group marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly, urging Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Speaker Mudashiru Obasa to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters accused some traditional rulers of acting as \u201cland grabbers\u201d behind the demolitions. Carrying placards, they vowed to take their grievances directly to the implicated monarchs\u2019 palaces if ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the original settlers of Lagos\u2026 If the government refuses to meet our demands, we will strip ourselves and storm the palaces of these monarchs,\u201d said Ifagbemi, one of the elderly demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>Egbe Omo Ilaje Worldwide President-General, Rafael Irowainu, alleged that certain monarchs were invoking President Bola Tinubu\u2019s name to justify illegal actions, insisting the president had no hand in the demolitions.<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers, including Wole Adewusi and Prince Oluwajimusu, warned that the crisis was inflicting hardship on families and could carry political consequences ahead of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters stressed that as early settlers of Lagos, the Ilaje community\u2019s rights and heritage must be protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Women from the Ilaje community in Lagos have threatened to stage nude protests if the state government fails to halt what they describe as the demolition of their ancestral settlements. Despite heavy rain on Tuesday, hundreds under the Egbe Omo Ilaje group marched to the Lagos State House of Assembly, urging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73711","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\/73711","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73713,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73711\/revisions\/73713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}