{"id":76950,"date":"2025-10-20T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76950"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:41:53","slug":"gunfire-as-security-forces-disperse-freennamdikanu-protesters-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/20\/gunfire-as-security-forces-disperse-freennamdikanu-protesters-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire as Security Forces Disperse #FreeNnamdiKanu Protesters in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/p>\n<p>Security operatives on Monday fired shots to disperse #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protesters at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), headquarters in Maitama, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Led by activist Omoyele Sowore, the protesters demanded the release of detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu despite a court order restricting demonstrations near sensitive areas.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the crowd, including Kanu\u2019s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, was chanting \u201cFree Nnamdi Kanu Now!\u201d before gunfire erupted, causing chaos as people fled.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were reported as of press time, though heavy security presence remains around the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Security operatives on Monday fired shots to disperse #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protesters at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), headquarters in Maitama, Abuja. Led by activist Omoyele Sowore, the protesters demanded the release of detained IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu despite a court order restricting demonstrations near sensitive areas. Eyewitnesses said the crowd, including Kanu\u2019s lawyer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76952,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950\/revisions\/76952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}