Nigerian protesters defy curfew after crackdown

Bloomberg

Hundreds of young Nigerians defied a lockdown and returned to the streets of Lagos, Africa’s most populous city, a day after the security forces violently confronted protesters.
Youths carrying sticks and metal poles set tires on fire and chased cars that tried to evade barricades they’d erected along one of Lagos’s main
expressways. Several other streets were also sealed off, and the sound of sporadic gunshots echoed across the city.
A Nigerian Red Cross Society official said at least two civilians were shot dead in Lagos’s Lekki district, adding to at least six other deaths. Lagos state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said 25 people were hospitalised and one died of his injuries after the incident. He ordered an investigation into the conduct of the army, which falls under the control of the federal government.
In a series of tweets on its Twitter page, the Army labeled reports that soldiers had fired on the protesters in Lekki as fake news.
While Nigeria has become accustomed to violent incidents in recent years, most have been confined to the country’s north, where President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is fighting an Islamist insurgency
led by Boko Haram
extremists.