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Day Two Protest: Policemen Fire Teargas At #EndBadGovernance Protesters In Abuja

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Day Two Protest: Policemen Fire Teargas At #EndBadGovernance Protesters In Abuja

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Policemen Teargas Protesters In Abuja. Photo showing teargas fumes. By Channels TV/Sodiq Adelakun

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on Friday, being the secondary of the #EndBadGovernanace protest, fired teargas canisters at protesters who assembled at the popular Berger roundabout in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.

Journalists covering the procession were not spared as teargas were fired at them.

Protesters have demonstrated in Abuja, Lagos, Rivers, Kano and several other cities to register their grievance over economic reforms that have led to rampant inflation and inflicted increasing hardship on ordinary Nigerians.

President Bola Tinubu has vowed to pursue the changes that he said are needed to keep the country afloat.

Worried by potential violence with hoodlums hijacking the protests, the Nigerian authorities deployed armed security personnel nationwide.

Nigerians are telling the government to reinstate subsidies for petrol and electricity, free primary and secondary education and measures to combat insecurity, among other demands.
-Channels

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