Scuffles at Nigeria protest against worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation

(2 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lagos - 2 August 2024
1. Wide of residents clashing with protesters in Lagos
2. Various of protesters expressing their views regarding the clash
3. Various of protesters chanting and drinking during protest
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ikedi Agwu, protester:
“I came out to protest for plenty of reasons. Hunger, the purchasing power of my salary has been completely eroded, I know what my salary could purchase years ago but now, it’s not the same and there’s no increment in the salary, everything is just normal. In as much as we’ve implemented the new minimum wage, but I work in a private sector, it has not reflected on our own pay scheme.”
5. Various of protesters carrying placards
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Oyinkansola Agbeke, protester:
“Am outside to show my anger that Nigerian politicians are not managing our money very well, there’s so much corruption in the system and things must get better.”
7. Various of protesters carrying placards
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Akinkunmi Olawoyin, protester:
"Nobody wants to be on the streets. It takes effort, it takes a whole lot for people to leave what they are doing, their businesses to be here. So, we want all our demands to be granted by the government. And these demands are genuine, and they are achievable."
9. Wide of police removing a protest disruptor
10. Mid of Lagos Police Commissioner Adegoke Fayoade
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adegoke Fayoade, Lagos Police Commissioner:
"We organized our men, put resources together, collaboration with other sister agencies and the military to make sure that they provide security like we are doing for the protesters. And I believe with that we have been able to manage peace, peace in Lagos.”
12. Mid of protesters chanting during the protest march
13. Various of protesters
STORYLINE:
Protesters clashed with residents in Lagos on Friday during a demonstration against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.

Carrying placards, bells and Nigeria's green-and-white flag, the protesters were met with a heavy security presence on the streets of Lagos.

The protests were mainly over food shortages and accusations of misgovernment and corruption in Africa’s most populous country.

Nigeria’s public officials are among the best paid in Africa, a stark contrast in a country that has some of the world’s poorest and hungriest people despite being one of the continent’s top oil producers.

"The purchasing power of my salary has been completely eroded,” a protester told The Associated Press.

The mostly young protesters chanted songs as they listed their demands, including the reinstatement of gas and electricity subsidies that were cancelled as part of an economic reform effort.

Violence and looting were concentrated in Nigeria's northern states, which are among the hardest hit by hunger and insecurity.

Amnesty International's Nigeria office said at least nine people were killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against the economic crisis gripping the country.

Authorities said a police officer was also killed and others injured, while four protesters were killed by a bomb.

Hundreds were arrested in the protests that triggered curfews in several states.

AP Video shot by Dan Ikpoyi

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