Protesters take to the streets in Nigerian cities over cost-of-living crisis

“End bad governance” demonstrations held in Abuja, Minna, Katsina and Lagos, despite government efforts to stifle them

Protests against a cost-of-living crisis are under way in several Nigerian cities including the capital Abuja, despite weeks of government efforts to stifle them.

Across Minna and Katsina in the north and Lagos in the south, hundreds of people took to the streets on Thursday for the first day of the weeklong “End bad governance” protests. Security personnel and armoured trucks were deployed to the streets.