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Demonstrators took to the streets of Nigeria’s biggest cities on Friday for a second day as citizens in Africa’s most populous country came out to decry a severe cost of living crisis and bad governance.
More than a dozen people were killed when law enforcement forces, according to rights groups, fired on protesters on Thursday in several northern states including Borno, which was also among those to introduce a day-long curfew as part of efforts to curtail the unrest.
Organisers of the protests, which also took place in the commercial hub of Lagos and the capital Abuja, had called for Nigerians to show their displeasure at soaring food prices and three-decade high inflation over 10 days of demonstrations.
They have been partly inspired by the demonstrations in Kenya where a youth-led movement revolted against the government’s proposed tax rises to bridge a fiscal deficit.
