{"id":84118,"date":"2026-01-28T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84118"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:56:18","slug":"nigerian-police-fire-tear-gas-protester-injured-in-lagos-floating-slum-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/28\/nigerian-police-fire-tear-gas-protester-injured-in-lagos-floating-slum-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian police fire tear gas, protester injured in Lagos floating slum protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Vbebr.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Members of the Nigerian police lob teargas canisters to disperse demonstrators during a protest by residents of Makoko riverine community over the demolition of their stilt houses in Lagos, Nigeria, January 28, 2026. REUTERS\/Sodiq Adelakun\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over demolition work in one of Africa&#8217;s largest floating slums that has displaced thousands of people,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/nigerian-police-fire-tear-gas-protester-injured-in-lagos-floating-slum-protests\/ar-AA1VaO2u?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=697a202d4b464703851f8f0c1cd6a016&amp;cvpid=9f82c0c30230408d9cf1a06b29b3ce8b&amp;ei=197\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigerian police fired tear gas to disperse residents protesting in Lagos on Wednesday over demolition work in one of Africa&#8217;s largest floating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tear-gas-Makoko.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84120,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84118\/revisions\/84120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}