{"id":166589,"date":"2025-06-12T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:27:59","slug":"heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Security at Lagos June 12 Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A large number of police officers, including personnel from the Nigeria Police Force\u2019s Area F Division, have been deployed on Thursday morning as protesters began to gather at the Ikeja Underbridge in Lagos to commemorate June 12 Democracy Day.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators, made up of civil society organisations and pro-democracy activists, assembled to express dissatisfaction with the country\u2019s deteriorating economic situation and growing insecurity under President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>While the protest hasn\u2019t officially commenced, security forces nevertheless remain on high alert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A large number of police officers, including personnel from the Nigeria Police Force\u2019s Area F Division, have been deployed on Thursday morning as protesters began to gather at the Ikeja Underbridge in Lagos to commemorate June 12 Democracy Day. The demonstrators, made up of civil society organisations and pro-democracy activists, assembled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":166588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[4502,206,254],"class_list":["post-166589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-june-12","tag-lagos","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heavy Security at Lagos June 12 Protest - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A large number of police officers, including personnel from the Nigeria Police Force\u2019s Area F Division, have been deploy ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heavy Security at Lagos June 12 Protest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A large number of police officers, including personnel from the Nigeria Police Force\u2019s Area F Division, have been deploy ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-12T08:26:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-12T09:27:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749707932.002225.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"810\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Heavy Security at Lagos June 12 Protest\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-12T08:26:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-12T09:27:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest\"},\"wordCount\":102,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1749707932.002225.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"June 12\",\"Lagos\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/heavy-security-at-lagos-june-12-protest\",\"name\":\"Heavy Security at Lagos June 12 Protest - 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