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BREAKING: Riot Spreads To More States As Naira Scarcity Worsens

BREAKING: Riot Spreads To More States As Naira Scarcity Worsens
Riots on Friday spread to Ogun communities as youths protested the lingering new naira policy and fuel scarcity.
Our correspondent learnt that the protesters resisted police intervention and threatened to set the police station in the area ablaze.
The rioters also set bonfire on the highway, a development that forced motorists and travellers to hurriedly turned back.
Aside from travellers, commercial activities were disrupted in Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state, as shop owners closed their shops and scampered to safety.
Also, the riots on Friday morning spread to the Magboro axis of the highway with travellers and road users turning back to the Lagos end of the road.
However, National Youth Service Corps members in the areas billed for election training on Friday were asked to stay back home and avoid the routes.
A security advisory to corps members from the Mowe Sub-Office Local Government Inspector and sighted by our correspondent, read, “Violent protest on Lagos Ibadan expressway. Magboro blocked
Ibafo burn fire. Mowe blocked
“Stay safe and stay off. Till further information. I am however in touch with security agencies.”
The PUNCH had earlier reported that fighting erupted in some areas on the popular Lagos-Ikorodu expressway in Lagos State over the scarcity of the new naira notes and the hardship the policy has thrown Nigerians.
On Friday morning, The PUNCH gathered that suspected louts in Mile 12, Ketu and Ojota areas on the expressway, took to the road attacking commuters and creating chaos.
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